This is something I’d like to help draw some attention to. If you are using a Mozilla product, that is not a web browser, figuring out how to install an add-on turns into a very user-unfriendly experience. Too many times, I’ve seen questions from Thunderbird users, wondering why the extensions they want to install are [...]
In Thunderbird, when you receive new mail, an alert will pop up in the lower right corner of the screen (at least on Windows). Some people think it stays up for too long. Others feel that it goes away too fast. There is actually a setting for the duration of the new mail alert, that [...]
This has the makings of a great new feature for Thunderbird, and I’d like to help get the word out for testers test it. As Scott writes, One of the goals in Thunderbird 2 is to make account setup easier for folks using large ISPs (like google, yahoo!, etc) for e-mail. In fact ISPs can [...]
I was saving this tip for today, because it’s a bit of a Christmas present, courtesy of alta88. Users of both Firefox and Thunderbird may have noticed that when you get the feed preview screen in Firefox 2, and use the drop-down list to add the feed to Thunderbird, it does not work. There are [...]
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 [...]
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.“