Looks like Scott recently updated the Thunderbird 2 roadmap. Beta1 is planned for December, and the final release is planned for the first quarter (lets say March ) of 2007. As always, dates are subject to change before then.
I’ve been using Thunderbird branch builds daily, since before the new Thunderbird theme landed, two and a half months ago; and the new Thunderbird theme has not grown on me. It’s too beige. It’s too yellow. There’s no variety of colour. It lacks vibrancy. Every time I open the latest 1.5 release, it’s such a [...]
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If you use Nightly Tester Tools to bump up the compatibility of an add-on to enable it on your installation of Firefox or Thunderbird, that does not guarantee that the add-on will work. Nightly Tester Tools is a tool for testing. Add-ons are built on top of Firefox/Thunderbird code. When the Firefox/Thunderbird code changes (new [...]
Firefox is not the only app getting a “visual refresh.” Arvid Axelsson has been hard at work, creating a new default theme for Thunderbird 2, and we finally have a preview. Arvid has posted some screenshots on MozillaZine of the: Main Window Compose Window Address book Window Options Window Main toolbar using small icons Scott [...]
[The Thunderbird 2 version of this can be found here.] Every once in a while, someone on news.mozilla.org will enquire about receiving an error message “A News (NNTP) error occurred: xpat not supported“, when trying to search newsgroups on news.mozilla.org; so I thought I’d post my ‘stock’ answer. News.mozilla.org is hosted by Giganews, who’s servers [...]
In case you missed it yesterday, Scott announced the release of the first “alpha release of Thunderbird 2 focused on testing and collecting feedback for several new features.“
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Those interested in giving feedback on purposed changes to the Firefox 2 theme, should head over to the mozilla.dev.themes newsgroup, where there is quite a bit of feedback/discussion taking place. In addition, the SeaMonkey Council wants to give SeaMonkey a new default theme. Head over to the mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey newsgroup, to give your feedback on that. [...]
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It’s been a while, since I’ve posted a Firefox or Thunderbird tip; which I assume is the primary reason I have any subscribers. I apologize. Here’s another Thunderbird attachment box tip, that I’ve found useful. Thunderbird has a width limit on the display of attachment names, which means if an attachment has a long name, [...]
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Bug 114656 (ie. message tagging) has been checked into the Thunderbird trunk! Create as many tags as you want. Assign as many of them to a message as you want. To help test message tagging, grab the latest trunk nightly.
Mozilla Thunderbird users may have noticed that turning off “Show an alert” for when new messages arrive, does not get rid of the alert that appears in the Windows system tray. There’s actually a Windows feature (I don’t know if it’s on anything other than XP), that lets you to disable that alert. On the [...]
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