As we had reported last night, the next build was going to contain a patch to fix the issue with mozglue.dll error message. After installing a fresh copy of the 2012-01-28 Earlybird build, everything is working again. Users will need to update manually to the newest build of Earlybird by downloading and installing a fresh copy from Thunderbird Channels page. There is no reason to uninstall the prior build, simply just install over with today’s build.
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* As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.
There is a critical bug in the January 27, 2012 build of Thunderbird Earlybird (11.0a2) which is preventing the application from launching on Windows. This is believed to be the result of the check in of Bug 701371 - Rename mozutils to mozglue, and move it to top-level. A patch has been created and uploaded for the next build. Users who have already updated to the broken build will get the message below along with a Windows ‘Program Stopped Working/Responding’ message. You will need to manually reinstall Earlybird by downloading Earlybird from the Thunderbird Builds page. We will post an update when this issue has been resolved.
I have added links for Thunderbird, Lighting and Provider for Google Calendar to a new ‘Downloads’ section on the side bar. This sections has links for both the current and developmental versions (note: the same version of Provider for Google Calendar works with both the release and developmental versions of Thunderbird and Lightning).
I run Thunderbird with Lightning both on my desktop and laptop. Now, I had a bit of an oddity. I have two Google Calendars that I use in Thunderbird via Lighting and Provider for Google Calendar add-ons. On my desktop machine the times are correct, however on my laptop all the times are one hour earlier. I thought may be the time zone was wrong on the laptop, but it does show it is set to the Arizona time-zone. Also, when I view my calendars on the web, all the times are correct (even when viewed using the laptop). This leads me to believe is an issue with the Thunderbird on the laptop.
So I posted this issue on my Thunderbird Forum and Malcolm suggested I check the time zone settings in Thunderbird (Tools > Options… > Lightning > Timezone). It has been so long since I had first setup Lightning that I had forgotten about this setting. I check on the desktop and it was set to America/Phoenix. At that time, my laptop was buried on my desktop under bunch of papers. Had a chance to unearth the laptop last night and got into the settings. Well, what do you know; it was set to America/Los Angeles. So, after switching it over to America/Phoenix and restarting Thunderbird, everything was showing the correct times.
Mozilla has announced Thunderbird will follow the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) plan. The current plan is the first Firefox ESR will be based off of the upcoming Firefox 10 release coming at the end of this month. With that release comes a 12-week ‘grace-period’ for continued support of the Firefox 3.6 release which would put the final release on April 24th, 2012. However, Thunderbird has been a bit slower to adapt to new release processes (the first rapid release cycle release was Thunderbird 6). It is uncertain at this time if the first Thunderbird ESR will be based off of Thunderbird 10 or 11 (in which case the end date would be June 5th, 2012). There should be more news about this later this week or next week.
It has only taken Mozilla 8 (well, no 7 as there was no Thunderbird 5) Thunderbird releases to catch up with the UI change made in Firefox 4. The Daily builds of Thunderbird 12 now have the tab bar at the top of the window. Presently though, there is not an option not to have the tabs on top. Thunderbird 12 is schedule for release on April 24, 2012.
Well, I didn’t see this coming, mainly because I use the Beta builds as my default Thunderbird build on my desktop machine. I do run the Release version of Thunderbird on my laptop, but since I am on break from school, have not even turned on the laptop this week.
On December 23, 2011, Mozilla released an update for Thunderbird 9. Thunderbird 9.0.1, according to the (vague) release notes fixed an issue with Windows XP users not being able to run Thunderbird in some cases. Took a little hunting but this was related to Bug 712960. This is unrelated to the issues that caused there to be a chemspill release of Firefox 9.0.1 earlier this week as was the case with Firefox 8.0.0,8.0.1 the issues were isolated to Firefox only. User can update via Help > About Thunderbird or by manually downloading and installing Thunderbird 9.0.1 from the getthunderbird.com site.
* As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.
Mozilla has merged Thunderbird 10 on the to the Beta developmental channel on December 23rd, 2011. Existing Thunderbird Beta users can update via Help > About Thunderbird. New users can get Thunderbird Beta from Mozilla’s Future of Thunderbird site.
What’s New in Thunderbird Beta
Thunderbird 10 is scheduled for release on January 31st, 2012.
Lighting users: You will need to go here and get the version 1.2 of Mozilla Lightning.
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