Category Archives: Developmental Builds

Thunderbird 12 Earlybird Now Available
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Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Mozilla Messaging has completed the merge of Thunderbird 12 to the Early Bird developmental channel. Existing Earlybird user may be able to update within the application via Help > About Earlybird (at press time the updater was not working) otherwise … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 11 Beta now Available
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Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Mozilla Messaging has completed the merge of Thunderbird 11 to the Beta channel. What’s new in Thunderbird 11 Beta: Tabs are now shown above the toolbar New wizard to sign up for new accounts More trust options added to junk … Continue reading →

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Update: Windows 2000/XP1 Support Ending
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Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Back in July we wrote that support for Windows 2000 and XP SP1 would be ending with the Thunderbird 8 release (November 8, 2011) due to Mozilla moving to C++ 2010 compiler. Thunderbird 10 was released on January 31st and … Continue reading →

Posted in Developmental Builds, General Thunderbird, Thunderbird 10, Thunderbird 13, Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai), Thunderbird ESR | 1 Comment

The Future of Thunderbird: Thunderbird 3.1, 10.0, ESR and beyond
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Posted on February 1, 2012 by

There has been a lot happening this week with Thunderbird and a result a lot of activity on this blog recently. Here is a brief summary of what has happened so far:     Thunderbird 3.1.18 Released     Thunderbird 10.0 Released … Continue reading →

Posted in Developmental Builds, General Thunderbird, Mac, Thunderbird 1.5, Thunderbird 10, Thunderbird 13, Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai), Thunderbird ESR, Windows | 2 Comments

More info to come…
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Posted on January 31, 2012 by

I realize the last post, Thunderbird ESR Released was a bit brief. I had been waiting to post about the new ESR build until I knew for sure they were going to be released. I had seen in a couple … Continue reading →

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Earlybird (Thunderbird 11.0a2) Working Again
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Posted on January 28, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Earlybird (Thunderbird 11.0a2) Currently Broken
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Posted on January 27, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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New ‘Downloads’ Sidebar Item
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Posted on January 18, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 12: Tabs on Top
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Posted on December 31, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 10.0 Beta (10.0b1) Released
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Posted on December 23, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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