I mentioned over on the Firefox Blog about a thread in the Thunderbird Builds forum asking if there is a possibility of being able to have toolbar (icons) next to the tabs like in Firefox. They posted the following mockup of how they would like this to look in Thunderbird (note they are using Small Icons and have the ‘Show:’ setting as Icons): At first I really didn’t understand what they were asking or why you want to do this. However, the more I got to looking at this, the more I would like to see this feature. This is…
June 2011
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I was looking through the Thunderbird builds board on mozillaZine when I came across a thread asking about having toolbar (icons) next to the tabs in Thunderbird like you could in Firefox. I didn’t quite understand this thread the first couple times I read it. The poster did a mock-up ‘screenshot’ of how this would look in Thunderbird. This got me wondering, ‘which version of Firefox allowed you to have toolbar icons next to the tabs’? I tried it out on Firefox 5 Beta and sure enough it is possible as seen above. I moved the Greasemonkey icon onto the…
The newer versions of Real Player have added an annoying feature which will allow you to download a video playing in the browser. At first I thought disabling all the RealPlayer plugins within Firefox would take care of this. It did not and then I noticed the same thing happening in Chrome. After some poking around in RealPlayer (which I rarely use) I found out how to turn off this feature. Launch RealPlayer* From the RealPlayer drop-down menu at the upper left select Preferences.. Click the Download & Recording category (2nd from the bottom) You can either un-check the enable…
The newer versions of Real Player have added an annoying feature which will allow you to download a video playing in the browser. At first I thought disabling all the RealPlayer plugins within Firefox would take care of this. It did not and then I noticed the same thing happening in Chrome. After some poking around in RealPlayer (which I rarely use) I found out how to turn off this feature. Launch RealPlayer* From the RealPlayer drop-down menu at the upper left select Preferences.. Click the Download & Recording category (2nd from the bottom) You can either un-check the enable…
A slight update to the Add-on(s) Disabled by Firefox post from earlier this year. Gecko 2.0 added the file extensions.sqlite to the ‘extensions’ files. Firefox 4.0 and newer include this particular file. We have updated the Wiki to reflect these changes. To get your add-ons working again: Close Firefox Locate your profile folder Delete the following files from your profile folder. Note: You may not have all these files: extensions.ini extensions.cache extensions.rdf extensions.sqlite Restart Firefox When you restart Firefox it will automatically rebuilt the extensions list, replacing the files you just removed with fresh updated copies. Your add-ons should now…
While there has been a lot of new development on Firefox for Mobile aka Fennec there is currently no official Thunderbird for Mobile. Further, there has not been any talk about developing a mobile version of Thunderbird. This could change in the future as the development of Thunderbird is now under Mozilla Labs, a group that specializes in these types of ‘projects’. The closest you can get to Syncing is an add-on, Zindus which allows you to sync your GMail and Thunderbird contacts. There is no synching of mail or calendar. Two options here, using a web-based email/calendar service like…
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.18 – June 21st Firefox 5 Final Release – June 21st Firefox 5 for Mobile Final Release – June 21st Firefox 6 Beta – July 5th* Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Aurora – August 16th* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See this post for more…
We described in the Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 Released post how to override Add-on Compatibility Checking by adding and setting the following Boolean entry to FALSE in Thunderbird’s about:config: extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0b There has been some isolated reports that after restarting Thunderbird users see the message: Add-on compatibility checking is disabled. You may have incompatible add-ons in Thunderbird’s add-on manager. However, their add-ons are stuck in a Disabled status. This is caused by Thunderbird’s extension files become corrupted. Simple fix to get your add-ons working again: Close Thunderbird Locate your profile folder Delete the following files from your profile folder. Note: You…
Due to us moving the blog to the new server (which we did because we moved to a more enhanced blog platform) updates to the Facebook Firefox Page were not getting posted. After much research on the WordPress side to find a plugin which would post both to the Facebook Page as well as our Twitter Feed we did not find any that would work reliably. However, we did find twitterfeed a free service that will feed your blog(s) to Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. Feeds from both this blog as was as The Email Mafia (Thunderbird) Blog…
A while back Mozilla introduced their Plugin Check site, which allowed users to check to see if the plugins they had installed within Firefox were the most current. This site also have the users the ability to easily get the updated versions of any plugins which were out-dated. The problem with this is a lot of Firefox users do not know about this tool as it is not currently an integrated part of Firefox. That is going to change with Firefox 6. A link for Plugin Check will be added in as a part of the add-ons manager within the…