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.
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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…
When I was setting up a test account on Linux Mint, I had no issues with Thunderbird’s account wizard in Thunderbird 3.1. However, when I tried to setup the same account in Thunderbird 5 or 7 it seemed the latest ‘improvements’ to the account wizard broke the automatic setup. Specifically the point where it attempted to verify the domain’s MX Records to get the correct server settings. I had posted about this in the Thunderbird Builds forum and was informed Bug 663971 had just been patched and to allow a couple days to hit both Miramar (Thunderbird 5) and Shredder…
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.
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….
Thunderbird 5 will introduced the new integrated (into a tab) add-ons manager (like that of Firefox 4) and sorta hide the Find Updates feature. In prior versions of Thunderbird there was a Find Updates button at the bottom right of the add-ons manager window. Add-ons manager window from Thunderbird 3.1 with Find Updates button at the bottom right. In Thunderbird 5.0 (as well 6.0 and 7.0) this feature has been moved. On the upper right of the Add-ons Manager window (just to the left of the search box) is a gear icon which is also a drop-down menu. From there…
A couple discussions in the tb-planning group about changing the name of the trunk (nightly) builds of Thunderbird to something other than Shredder. Firefox made this move earlier going from Minefield to Nightly. Further, the use of the name of Aurora can only be used for Firefox and therefore they are looking for a new name for the first Thunderbird Alpha builds. Some of the suggestions have included Athena or Apollo. Shredder, the current code name for the Thunderbird Trunk (nightly) builds could be going away to be replaced with something that would attract more users and would be softer.
Just as was the change in Firefox 7.0 Nightly, the entry extensions.checkCompatibility.7.0a will not work with the new Thunderbird 7 nightly. To disable the compatibility checking add the following Boolean entry and set it to false: extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly This only works for Thunderbird 7 Nightly builds.