New thunderbird problems

So what's up with the newest version? In newsgroups I can't expand all
links using Ctrl* . The old version had a problem doing that
sporadically when set to expand all groups, but now Ctrl* doesn't even
open them up, I have to click on the "+" for each thread. I'd also like
the reply button back were it was. Oh, I forget how to make it keep
links as one line instead of word wrapping them. Help! Do I go back to
an older version or is there different settings to fix this?

 

I am still on version 2 and the * works fine here, no Ctrl needed, its
just *.

 

Sorry for the very late reply, I think I was thinking shift * but was
pressing Ctrl * instead.