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Disable word & line wrap on Mozilla Thunderbird

What is word and line wrap?

Word and line wrap are features that automatically moves words and lines that exceed a certain length onto a new line. By default, this functionality is enabled on Thunderbird.


Why might someone disable word and line wrap?

Word and line wrap may be distracting in other web and email clients as it introduces random line breaks throughout the email. See images below to see the difference between word and line wrap enabled compared to disabled.

Word and line wrap enabled (default):