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trying to get this more under control, will be moving a bunch of stuff onto separate page next...

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-The menus are crufty.  They need severe decruftification.  The current menus are as follows (or at least as close as I can make them, because my current trunk build shows differently, presumably because of unfinished aviary porting):
+The menus are crufty.  They take up about six full screens of text for me as they are below, and that's far too many.  One of the big strengths of Firefox is that its UI is minimal.  There's less to get in the way when you want to do something, and finding what you want to do is easier because there's only one simpler method to do so.
+The basic way to fix this is by consolidation and removal.  I haven't looked very much yet because I haven't had time and barely use most of the UI of Thunderbird (as I'm sure most people do).  Consequently, in the initial step below I'm just going to start consolidating.  Because the menus are so large, I'm going to do this in multiple pages, as described below:
+# [[Thunderbird:Menus:Menus as of Thunderbird 1.0-ish|Current menus]] (crufty)
+# [[Thunderbird:Menus:Menus after some consolidation|After some consolidation]] (after item consolidation)
+# [[Thunderbird:Menus:Menus after unnecessary item removal|After some item removal]] (with removal explanations)
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-***Template</h4>
+***Template
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