Yearly Archives: 2007

Tweak: Add-ons ‘Install’ Button
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Up until the release of Thunderbird 3, there was not an automated way to install extensions from within Thunderbird. In the older versions you had to download the add-on, find it on your computer, open Thunderbird’s Add-Ons Manager window and … Continue reading

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 Released
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A new version of Thunderbird was released a couple days ago (November 14th). Here are the details from the Release Notes: What’s New in Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 Release Date: November 14, 2007 Security Update: The following security issues have been fixed. … Continue reading

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Moving Thunderbird Profile
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Adapted from Thunderbird How To Manage Profiles Your Thunderbird profile not only contains all your preferences and extensions but your e-mail folders and messages as well. Moving your profile is not that difficult. One thing to keep in mind though … Continue reading

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Thunderbird News Part 3?
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I guess we can call this Part 3…that is if we call Scott McGregor’s announcement (Troublesome Thunderbird News) Part 1 and David Bienvenu’s announcement (More Troublesome Thunderbird News) Part 2 . As expected Michell Baker has posted a couple articles … Continue reading

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More Troublesome Thunderbird News
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Earlier this week Scott McGregor announced he was leaving Mozilla Corp.  Now comes the  announcement David Bienvenu, the only other Thunderbird Developer is also leaving on October 12th: Just wanted to let everyone know that my last day at The … Continue reading

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An Invitation From David Ascher
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This morning I mentioned in my More Troublesome Thunderbird News post that there not being announcements from Mitchell Baker or even David Ascher. Earlier today David Ascher dropped by and left this comment and invitation: Hi — i did blog … Continue reading

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Troublesome Thunderbird News
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On a short note, Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer, announced that on October 12 he will leave the Mozilla Corporation to pursuit other career interests. He plans, however, to continue his role as module owner for Thunderbird as a volunteer. … Continue reading

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Thunderbird's Future Looking Brighter
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In late July there was a lot of talk about Thunderbird’s Future as Mozilla was looking at options to split off or even possible drop Thunderbird. The future is looking a lot brighter now for Thunderbird. Mitchell Baker has announced… … Continue reading

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Update ThunderBrowser
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ThunderBrowser has a new site:  http://thunderbrowse.com also check out the ThunderBlog.

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Thunderbird Major Update Update
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I mentioned earlier in the Weekly Update 2007-08-06 post that there is going to a major update to take TBird users from the 1.5.0.12 to the  2.0.0.6 build. I got to thinking about this and something didn’t make sense.  If … Continue reading

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