Thunderbird mail account order change

My objective is to sort my Thunderbird email accounts (not folders). However, it seems that the manually-sort-folders add-on is what is being recommended.
When installing the add-on "manually-sort-folders-1.1-tb.xpi", I get an error message saying that the add-on is not compatible with Firefox 35.0.1.
When trying to change prefs.js or use about:config, I cannot find any reference to "account1" as a starting point (I have 3 accounts).
What is going on?

Hello,
You could change the order of your accounts in the folders pane by modifying your [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file prefs.js] file as described in [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=56225 this thread]. If you have trouble figuring out which accounts are assigned to which account numbers in prefs.js, or if you try changing the order of accounts in prefs.js but the order displayed in the folders pane is not what you expected, see [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=544764#544764 this thread] for further information.
from [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Change_Account_Order Account order]

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