It turned out that a few weeks were really more like a few minutes. Mozilla Messaging has released the first alpha of Shredder (icon wanted), the code name of Thunderbird 3.
As planned, this new release has the main goal of letting Thunderbird users that its email client is alive and healthy and this alpha packs a year of work since the last major Thunderbird release. Read the rest of this entry »
If you are using a Firefox nightly to browse the web, you (better) know you are walking on a minefield where a just landed patch can explode at any time taking some or all of your bookmarks, cookies or saved passwords with it. So, builds from the Firefox trunk (development code repository) are properly called Minefield. Its logo, a lit dynamite stick stuck into the globe, makes things even clearer.
With Thunderbird, if you go the nightlies way, you should know you are checking your email with a shredder: a bad move and it’s buh-bye to your beloved years-old mail archive. So it has been aptly named Shredder and now Mozilla Messaging is looking for a logo that reflects its risky nature.
Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, a stability and security update that patches two moderate security vulnerabilities.
Thunderbird users are encouraged to update by clicking Check for Updates… in Thunderbird’s Help menu, or wait for the update prompt in the next 48 hours.
PC World has opened the voting period for its annual Top 100 Products list, a simple survey where everyone can vote and score as many technology products (hardware, software and services) in as many categories as he finds relevant.
Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.12, an update that fixes five security vulnerabilities including one labeled as critical by Mozilla, along with more than twenty stability improvements.
Thunderbird 2 is now also available in Afrikaans and Ukrainian.
David Ascher, head of Mozilla’s messaging subsidiary, has posted an outline of the roadmap for Thunderbird 3 signaling the start of a new stage in Thunderbird’s development which has lacked a clear plan of action since Thunderbird 2 release last year.
Increasing Thunderbird already large user base will become a priority, as a way to maximize its impact. As a new Mozilla subsidiary it also has the need to achieve financial sustainability and a larger user base would definitely help.
Joey Minta, announced today the start of a new project to develop a library for Thunderbird for easier extension development.
The project, dubbed STEEL aims to deliver for Thunderbird what FUEL will do for Firefox 3: an easier way for extension developers to access and program common application components like bookmarks, windows, tabs, events, storage and preferences. In the Thunderbird’s case this could mean accounts, mailboxes, subscriptions, newsgroup, address books, etc.
Mozilla has released an update for Thunderbird 2.0.0.6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 intentionally skips a few version numbers to sync with current Firefox 2.0.0.9. It fixes a couple of moderate security vulnerabilities and about 40 stability and performance bugs, so as usual, users are strongly advised to update to the latest version.
To update, select Check for Updates… in the Help menu and follow on-screen instructions.
More details on Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 release notes.
Hunspell, an open source spell checker engine has been added to Thunderbird 3 development code replacing previous MySpell engine that currently ships with Thunderbird 2.x and Firefox 2.x.
Hunspell also replaced MySpell as OpenOffice.org’s spell checker last year as it provides some unique and welcomed advantages including support for Asian languages, Unicode support, morphological analysis and support for complex compounds and agglutinative languages like Azeri, Basque, Estonian and Hungarian. Read the rest of this entry »
David Bienvenu has announced that the ability to open messages in tabs has been added to Thunderbird in-development code. It’s pretty simple and useful, right-click in a message and select Open Message in New Tab.
As you can see in the screenshot, the folders and messages lists are kept in a separate tab.
It’s still rough in the edges as one may expect from a very early implementation. For example the tab close buttons don’t work and you can’t double click a message to open a tab but this will get worked out in the next few days or weeks along with an option to open message on tabs or windows by default.
Without a doubt a welcomed improvement that Thunderbird 3 users will sure appreciate.
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