Note: Republishing from The FF Extension Guru’s Blog One of the neat features of Thunderbird is the ability to customize the client with Extensions, Themes and Plug-Ins. But sometimes there are problems a theme does something funky to your browser. Or may be an extension goes haywire and gets corrupted. There are so many possibilities of what could be the problem. If you have a lot of extensions installed, it is hassle to list them all. Whenever anyone posts on Go Firefox! a more advanced problem they are having the first thing I recommend they do is install the InfoLister…

Thunderbird related news from the April 6th Mozilla Project Weekly Status meeting: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 NO REPORT TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder) – Status: In Progress 3.0b3 work continues

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 5.0.4 Release this week Experimental add-ons no longer require login to install Public Stats Dashboard Remove old developer dashboard Improved registration flow Adding blog, contact, about links to footer (woo!) Editor queue now sorted as a FIFO queue, so we’ll be able to see how long add-ons are in the review queue so we can react appropriately 82% compatible with Fx3.1 66% compatibility with 3.1b3 230 editor reviews last week 152 accepted 41 nominations 111 file updates FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.9 Handed off to build today On track for release on April 21 Firefox 3.0.10 Opening tree this Tuesday…

With the news of the upcoming Firefox 3.6, comes hope that Firefox 3.5 is nearing completion. As of press, Firefox 3.5 is scheduled for a Beta 4 release on April 14th [as I am watching the Mozilla Project Weekly Status meeting live it has been announced the release date has been pushed back a week] which means we could see the final release may be as early as June (which would only be six months later than the original projected release date for then Firefox 3.1). Firefox 3.6 is code named Namoroka after the national park located in Madagascar. The…

Back in the beginning of March, I wrote about the Signature Switch add-on in the TBird Signatures|Signature Switch post. It wasn’t until I went to post about this wonderful extension in Thunderbird Help, that I realized I didn’t include any screen-shots. So, here are some screen shots (click images for full-size view): Switch between your list of signatures via the Signature button on the compose window Signature Switch Options Set/Edit Signature

Just Released NONE Schedule this Coming Week NONE Future Release Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 – TBA Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 – May 5th Tentative

Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.9 MU – Late April Firefox 3.0.9 – April 21, 2009 Firefox 3.0.10 – Mid May 2009 Firefox 3.5b4 – April 14, 2009

I am very excited about this news. Personas is one of the best Firefox extensions out there. For those of you not faimilar with the Mozilla Labs project, Personsas here is what I wrote about this unique add-on back in December 2007 — Review: Personas: Personas is an extension or is it a theme? Both actually, it is extension that “adds lightweight theming” to your Firefox. Lightweight in that it only does the main browser window, not any of the options, bookmarks, downloads, etc. windows. There are several Personas to choose from and they apply on-the-fly (no restart needed once…

Thunderbird related news from the March 30th Mozilla Project Weekly Status meeting: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 NO REPORT TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder) – Status: In Progress 3.0b3 schedule updated slightly; work continues