A couple discussions in the tb-planning group about changing the name of the trunk (nightly) builds of Thunderbird to something other than Shredder. Firefox made this move earlier going from Minefield to Nightly. Further, the use of the name of Aurora can only be used for Firefox and therefore they are looking for a new name for the first Thunderbird Alpha builds. Some of the suggestions have included Athena or Apollo. Shredder, the current code name for the Thunderbird Trunk (nightly) builds could be going away to be replaced with something that would attract more users and would be softer.
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Okay, so The Guru made a minor observation error with the Firefox 7 Nightly UI post. However, as a result of this post a reader posted a userChrome.css tweak that will allow you have your tabs on the very top even if your window is not maximized. Tabs in between the Firefox Button and Window Size controls on a non-maximized browser window on Firefox 6 Aurora build (6.0a2). For information on how to modify you userChrome.css file see the UserChrome.css section on our Wiki’s Tweaks page. Add these lines of code to your userChrome.css file: /*Setting FF4′s Tabs to Always…
Just as was the change in Firefox 7.0 Nightly, the entry extensions.checkCompatibility.7.0a will not work with the new Thunderbird 7 nightly. To disable the compatibility checking add the following Boolean entry and set it to false: extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly This only works for Thunderbird 7 Nightly builds.
Update: First off thanks for the comments. Looks like I missed something, like the fact that I was running Firefox 7 Nightly maximized. Normally I only have the browser window only partial of the screen-width. But this does bring up an interesting question, why not have everything on one row even if the browser window is not maximized? The first screenshot while a partial screen size, is almost 800 pixels wide which would be for those running 800×600 would be maximized. Just seems like wasted space in that title bar. While I was trying out the different versions of Firefox…
With the upcoming release of Thunderbird 5 coming up soon (note: there is NOT going to be a Thunderbird 4 as Thunderbird numbering will now match that of Firefox) here a quick look at some of the features & changes (a link to the complete list is at the bottom of this post): Supported Platforms: Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 (32-bit only) Mac: No more support for OSX 10.4 and non-Intel processors. New 64-Bit support Linux: No changes from 3.1 Improvements to the new account Wizard – Improvements in the performance as well as the ability to easily choose…
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…
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…