Much like Firefox, there are some unofficial 64-Bit builds for Thunderbird. They can be found here. However, at this time the most latest version is Thunderbird 7.0.0 (release is 8.0.0). As with any other developmental build, use at your own risk and ideally with a separate profile (this where ProfileMaanger can come in handy). Thanks to Bob Slim for the tip.
November 2011
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Bug 701875 was created a few days ago to address a major issue with Windows and Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4.0+/Thunderbird 5.0+). omni.jar is a core file for Gecko 2.0 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. From MDN: Firefox 4 and Thunderbird 3.3 achieve performance improvements by moving many of their internal parts from being standalone files or sets of JAR files into just one JAR file called omni.jar; this reduces the amount of I/O needed to load the application. This issue is no fault of Mozilla’s rather Microsoft Windows. It seems the Window’s System Restore does not backup .jar files. Trying…
Mozilla has completed the merge for Thunderbird 9 on the Beta release channel on November 16, 2011. The latest version of Thunderbird Beta has the following changes: Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Thunderbird Better keyboard handling for attachments Windows users can hide the menu bar (and show it with the “alt” key) Several user interface fixes and improvements and numerous other platform fixes Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You can get Thunderbird 9 Beta (as well as Thunderbird 10 Earlybird) here. Lightning…
Bug 701875 was created a few days ago to address a major issue with Windows and Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4.0+/Thunderbird 5.0+). omni.jar is a core file for Gecko 2.0 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. From MDN: Firefox 4 and Thunderbird 3.3 achieve performance improvements by moving many of their internal parts from being standalone files or sets of JAR files into just one JAR file called omni.jar; this reduces the amount of I/O needed to load the application. This issue is no fault of Mozilla’s rather Microsoft Windows. It seems the Window’s System Restore does not backup .jar files. Trying…
First off, by faster we do not mean frequency, but rather how fast the update installs on your machine. Ehsan Akhgari has posted an article on Future of Firefox, Updating Firefox in the Background. In this article, Ehsan explains how the current Firefox update process works and what is being done to improve this process. In order to update itself, Firefox first starts to download an update in the background. When the update is downloaded, Firefox stages it in a directory ready to be applied. The next time that Firefox is about to start up, it checks out the staging…
Over the past couple days, we have gone through and updated the Wiki. The Extensions section has been updated for Firefox 7.0 and 8.0 compatibility and about a dozen new extensions that have already been discussed on the blog were added. The Firefox Tweaks section has also been updated for Firefox 7.0 and 8.0 compatibility. Also we have re-formatted the tweak pages, doing away with the color-code Firefox version compatibility and adding an updated date at the bottom of each page. Now each tweak will show Works with: followed by the version number. Old Compatibility Listing Design Firefox 3.6: YES …
From today’s meeting it was announced, unlike Firefox there will not be a 8.0.1 release for Thunderbird and 9 Beta 1 should be released on November 16th.
In today’s Mozilla Weekly Update meeting it was announced Thunderbird 9.0 Beta is delayed, but is coming. While there is no official release date yet for Thunderbird 9.0 Beta, could be as early as today (November 15th). When we checked last night, we were already seeing Linux and Mac candidate builds, but so far nothing for Win32.
The new default favicon for sites that don’t have a favicon is nothing more than a dotted square. In the past it resembled a piece of paper. Here are a couple options to replace the current favicon. Add these lines to your userChrome.css in the chrome folder within your profile folder [directions] Firefox Logo () – rob64rock has a stylish script that will do this as well. /* Fx branding tab Favicon on New/Blank tabs */ tab .tab-icon-image:not([src]) { list-style-image: url(“chrome://branding/content/icon16.png”) !important; } #urlbar #page-proxy-favicon:not([src]) { list-style-image: url(“chrome://branding/content/icon16.png”) !important; } menuitem[class=”menuitem-iconic bookmark-item menuitem-with-favicon”]:not([src]) { list-style-image: url(“chrome://branding/content/icon16.png”) !important; } Other Logo…
While Tab Utilities has a lot of stuff to offer, the only feature I really needed was to have the ability to Faviconize a tab. As B. Moore pointed out, there is add-on that does just that, FaviconizeTab. For those who want their links to open in a new tab to the far right instead of to the right of the pinned tabs or the current tab go into about:config, filter for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent and double-click to change to False. This add-on works with Firefox 4.0 and newer (Firefox 3.6 did not support App Tabs) and is about 10 KB in…