Prevent Thunderbird from trying to display large plain text attachments

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I have a coworker who loves sending large plain-text tab-delimited data files by e-mail instead of our network share. The problem is that Thunderbird hangs while it renders all of that text into the message view window, making my inbox unhappy for minutes at a time.

Ideally, I'd like to disable viewing of text/plain attachments above a few K, but if necessary I'd be fine disabling viewing of all text attachments and just rely on an external viewer. There wasn't an immediately obvious way to do this in Options. Is there a way?

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I'd be fine disabling viewing of all text attachments

Clear View -> Display Attachments Inline

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I came back a day later with fresh eyes. I assumed the add-on worked and that I was missing something. My only goal was to delete attachments. But I thought perhaps it really wanted to save attachments as well. I found two settings to try: giving a default path to save attachments to (general tab >> default save path) and more signficantly disabling the saving of attachments (advanced tab >> attachment file saving >> disable saving). Setting the former made the add-on start working, doing a detach-and-save, while setting the latter then did a detach-only. Problem solved!

How to get Thunderbird to show the attachments expanded

As per this writeup on the Attachment Pane Redesign on MozillaZine, you can add the following to userChrome.css to remove the attachment toggles:

#attachmentView > [collapsed="true"] {
  visibility: visible !important;
}

#attachmentToggle {
  display: none !important;
}

Edit: Corrected filename to userChrome.css

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