By default every time you reply to a message, Thunderbird adds a colored line down the sides to ‘frame’ each particular reply. This can get rather distracting after awhile. Plus it makes the overall length of the email a lot longer as the message content area gets narrower with each reply. To eliminate this, add these lines of code into your userContent.css file [directions] located within the chrome folder inside your profile folder: /*Remove reply lines*/ blockquote[type=cite] { padding-left: 0 ! important; border-left: none ! important; border-right: none ! important; }
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Just Released Thunderbird 3.1.11 - June 21st Thunderbird 5.0 - June 28th Coming Soon Thunderbird 6 Beta – July 5th* Thunderbird 7 Earlybird - July 5th* Future Releases Thunderbird 6 Final Release - August 16th Thunderbird 7 Beta - August 16th Thunderbird 8 Early Bird - August 16th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See this post for more details.
With Thunderbird 5 due out later today, users are going to find many of their add-ons may not work. Some add-on developers may be caught off-guard by the recent progress of Thunderbird 3.3/5.0 development and were not anticipating Thunderbird 5 to be release so soon. We are seeing a lot of this on the Firefox side with the release of Firefox 5 last week. However, unlike Firefox 4 and Firefox 5, add-ons that are working in Thunderbird 3.1 may not work in Thunderbird 5. The move from Thunderbird 3.1 to Thunderbird 5 would be like going from Firefox 3.6 to…
Here’s an updated on the Broken Thunderbird on Linux Mint post from last week. Haven’t heard anything new in the Thunderbird Builds Forum and the one person I know who runs Linux Mint doesn’t use Thunderbird. So I’ve decided the time has come to file a bug on this issue. I am the proud creator of Bug 667720
I’ve been having an odd issue with Thunderbird 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 developmental builds (Thunderbird 3.1 works fine) breaking on Linux Mint 10 when attempting to override add-on compatibility checking. I’ve posted this on mozillaZine at Thunderbird Builds. I first attempted to manually go into the Config Editor and add the following Boolean entries set to false: extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0b extensions.checkCompatibility.6.0a extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly When I go into the add-ons manager it does show add-on compatibility checking is disabled and I have no add-ons currently installed. I go to install an add-on and restart and I end up with the image below. At first…
Mozilla has pushed out the second and final beta for Thunderbird 5 on to the Beta channel. Those already have Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 install can get the update by going to Help >> About Mozilla Thunderbird. The update should download and once completed click the Apply Update button. Upon restart go back to Help >> About Mozilla Thunderbird and you should see the about screen as shown above. The final release of Thunderbird 5 is tentatively scheduled for June 28th. Thunderbird 6 will be released on August 16h.
Just Released Thunderbird 5 Beta (Miramar) - May 25h Thunderbird 6 Earlybird (6.0a2) - June 16th Coming Soon Thunderbird 3.1.11 - June 21st Future Releases Thunderbird 5 Final Release - July 5th Thunderbird 6 Beta – July 5th* Thunderbird 6 Final Release - August 16th Thunderbird 7 Earlybird - August 16th* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See this post for more details.
So after much debate the Thunderbird Planing Group has decided on new code names for Thunderbird developmental builds/channels: Daily (formerly known as Shredder or Nightly) Earlybird (equivalent to the Aurora channel/builds for Firefox). Beta Release Along with this new naming scheme comes the release of Thunderbird 6 to the Earlybird Channel. While the build itself seems to functioning fine, there are a couple branding issues that need to be fixed: What is it? On first run it opens a new tab: Welcome to Shredder! Two problems with this, first off the Shredder name has been replaced with Daily and this…
In a post couple weeks ago, we did mention about the numbering change for the next Thunderbird release (Miramar) going from 3.3a to 5.0b. However, we have received several questions related to the whereabouts of Thunderbird 4. Simply put there will NOT be a Thunderbird 4.0 version. The reason for this is because Mozilla wants the Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird to be on the same development cycle which also includes the same version numbering. Currently Firefox is on version 4.0.*, so why not make Miramar Thunderbird 4.0? A couple reasons, Miramar is not ready for release yet (estimated release date…
A while ago I wrote about the ProfileManager application created by J. Griffion. This application provided a new UI to managing profiles in Firefox, but it can also do so in Thunderbird. The trick is it needs to be setup as a separate application/short-cut and passing Thunderbird as an argument. On my Windows 7 system I have the following short-cuts: “C:\Program Files (x86)\profilemanager\profilemanager.exe” - This launches the ProfileManager for Firefox which is default. “C:\Program Files (x86)\profilemanager\profilemanager.exe” thunderbird - This launches the ProfileManager for Thunderbird So now I am able to run multiple versions of Thunderbird at once on different profiles….