It is still a learning process for the new Thunderbird rapid release schedule. Earlier this month Mozilla Developer’s News blog explained the difference between the merge and release dates. To sum it up, the dates show on the release page (as well as those posted here) are the date the code is being merged on to the particular channel. The actual release can be upto 1-week to allow for testing to ensure the release is stable enough for public consumption. This however only applies to Nightly to Aurora and Aurora to Beta. However, for ‘final releases’, the date listed for…
Thunderbird 3.3 (Miramar)
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While trying to get some updated info on the next release of Thunderbird 3.3 (Miramar) I came across a thread in the Thunderbird Builds forum discussing the numbering change. Simply put, the Thunderbird developers want to have the version numbering match that of Firefox/Gecko. It also sounds as if Thunderbird is going to be following in Firefox footsteps with it’s own rapid release cycle. So the following numbering changes will be taking effect soon: Thunderbird 3.3 (Miramar) >> Thunderbird 5 Builds which will be produced from comm-aurora >> Thunderbird 6 Thunderbird Nightly (3.4a1pre) >> Thunderbird 7 For those who are…
Mozilla has updated their release schedule to reflect an update for Thunderbird 3.1 (3.1.11) coming on June 21st. Thunderbird 3.3 has had it’s string freeze meaning no new features can be introduced for this build. There is sill a few weeks of testing down the road. No release date has been announced but could also be June 21st as well.
Mozilla is planning a major release day on April 26th. Besides updates for Firefox 3.5, 3.6 and 4.0 there will also be an updated for Thunderbird 3.1 as well. The release of Thunderbird 3.1.10 is directly connected to the releases of Firefox, so should these become delayed the Thunderbird update will be delayed as well. Currently there is no information available regarding the next release of Miramar (Thunderbird 3.3). Alpha 3 was released about a month ago on March 15th. Not sure if the next release is going to be Alpha 4 or Beta 1.
Mozilla Messaging has released the third alpha for the next generation of Thunderbird. Miramar is the code name for the new Thunderbird 3.3 which is built on the new Gecko 2 engine. New in this release: Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows Revised account creation wizard, offering improved set-up Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default and numerous other bug fixes For more details see the Release Notes. <a href=”https://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/ffextensionguru/Email%20Mafia/?action=view¤t=Tbirdvertical.png” target=”_blank”><img src=”https://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/ffextensionguru/Email%20Mafia/Tbirdvertical.png” border=”0″ alt=”Photobucket”></a>
Mozilla Messaging should be releasing Miramar Alpha 3 within the next couple weeks. Update: Mozilla is currently showing a release date around March 15/16th.
WARNING: Performing the below action can result in Miramar becoming unstable or unresponsive due to an incompatible add-on. Do so at your own risk. Since Nightly Tester Tools hasn’t been made compatible yet with Miramar Alpha 2 I had to find a manual way to force add-ons to work. This can be done via Thunderbird’s Config Editor (Tools >> Options… Advanced and click Config Editor button in the Advanced Configuration section). Click the I’ll Be careful, I promise! button Right-click in an empty area Select New then Boolean In the preference name box enter: extensions.checkCompatibility.3.3a Select: false If this has…
Since I had some time, I installed Thunderbird 3.3a2 aka Miramar. Upon the first start-up I was prompted to setup my email account. The process went smoothly as like in Thunderbird 3.1, setup should be able to auto-detect the account settings based on the email address you put in. Since all my email accounts are IMAP, I had Miramar synced with Thunderbird 3.1 running on my Windows 7 and Ubuntu machines. Took a couple minutes of playing around in the View menu to get the layout the way I preferred. As you can see from the About screen, Mozilla Messaging…
Mozilla Messaging has released the second alpha for the next generation of Thunderbird. Miramar is the code name for the new Thunderbird 3.3 which is built on the new Gecko 2 engine. New in this release: New Troubleshooting information page to aid supporting and diagnosing problems in Thunderbird Notifications of add-on installation progress and issues now work correctly Attachment reminder now works again Attachment sizes are now available in the compose window and numerous other bug fixes For more details see the Release Notes. <a href=”https://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/ffextensionguru/Email%20Mafia/?action=view¤t=Tbirdvertical.png” target=”_blank”><img src=”https://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/ffextensionguru/Email%20Mafia/Tbirdvertical.png” border=”0″ alt=”Photobucket”></a>
Whilst trying to find more information about Thunderbird 3.3 Miramar, I came across the Mozilla Labs blog and an experimental add-on unofficially called Account Provisioner. A little background, it seems about 2/3 of the people who download Thunderbird are expecting to get an email address with it. Interesting, so the majority of people assume Thunderbird is an email client and provider. Doesn’t make much sense to me, but then I am use to having an email client and using it with an either an ISP provided email address or a corporate related email address. I would not have thought have…