Articles by ElGuru

Follow Up: New Tab Behavior Coming in Fx 3.1

The Guru received this inquiry from Mark via Contact Us: I remember reading your entry back a couple months ago about new tab ordering in 3.1: http://ffextensionguru.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/new-tab-behavior-coming-in-fx-31/ Beta 3 has come out and the behavior is not present. I was rather excited about this development. Do you know if this new behavior is no longer on the 3.1/3.5 radar any longer? I had to look back at the original article from Mozilla Links. According to the article, the new behaviour would be “will be featured in future releases.” Also, “the new behavior will be added to trunk builds soon, but…

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released

Please note: Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta. Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.1 can be followed at the Firefox 3.1 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and…

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Mozilla Project Weekly Status: March 9th, 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 5.0.3 release this week Anonymized Survey Results The biggest request involves the review queue and the time it takes to get out of the sandbox. (24 requests) There is a real need for better documentation (22 requests) Tutorials are scattered across the internet and are often out of date. (21 requests) The IDE’s/tools for writing and debugging extensions are lacking. (15 requests) A few developers really want some sort of marketplace for extensions (6 requests) Next step: some form of roundtable to reach out to developers to go over these results and what we are doing to address…

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Thunderbird Synopsis: March 9th

Thunderbird related news from the March 9th Mozilla Project Weekly Status meeting: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 Beta this Wednesday Release in a week TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder) – Status: In Progress 3.0b3 and 3.0 planning continuing Lots of heads-down coding work Thunderbird traffic from mozilla.com has been redirected to mozillamessaging.com.

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Issue with HTML attachments in TBird 2.0.0.19

Erin contacted The Guru with the below question. I tried doing a Google Search and checking the mozillaZine forums without much luck so may be someone else here can give us some advice: Since we upgraded to Thunderbird version 2.0.0.19 it seems that not all HTML attachments are treated the same (when sent). Those with ^M are sent as “quoted-printable” text (results in a problem) and the same file without ^M is send encoded base64 (producing desired results). Is there a way to force Thunderbird to treat them all the same? Thanks.

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Release Recap: March Week 1

Just Released Firefox 3.0.7 – March 4th, 2009 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.1b3 – March 2009 Future Release Firefox 3.0.8 – April 7th, 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.21 – March 17-18, 2009

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The Guru’s Thunderbird Blog

While I have always covered Thunderbird in the Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog, the Thunderbird content tends to get deeply buried beneath all the Firefox and general Mozilla posts. Just searching by the Thunderbird category brings up 233 entries, however only 74 of those posts pertained exclusively to Thunderbird. All the Mozilla Project Weekly Status and Release Recap posts are under the Thunderbird category as well. So I have created the sister blog The Guru’s Thunderbird Blog. This blog contains the above mentioned 74 post ranging from June 1, 2006 up until March 1, 2009 have been re-posted on to this…

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The Guru’s Thunderbird Blog

While I have always covered Thunderbird in the Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog, the Thunderbird content tends to get deeply buried beneath all the Firefox and general Mozilla posts. Just searching by the Thunderbird category brings up 233 entries, however only 74 of those posts pertained exclusively to Thunderbird. All the Mozilla Project Weekly Status and Release Recap posts are under the Thunderbird category as well. So I have created the sister blog The Guru’s Thunderbird Blog. This blog contains the above mentioned 74 post ranging from June 1, 2006 up until March 1, 2009 have been re-posted on to this…

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