Mozilla Messaging has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 on March 18th. Users will be prompted for an automatic update within the next 72 hours.Those wishing to upgrade now can do so via the Help Menu, Check For Updates option or by downloading the latest release at getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 contains many security fixes and the full details can be found in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 Release Notes.

The name of this add-on says it all. Once installed simply double-click on the tab to reload. Reload Tab On Double-Click is about 2 KB and works with Firefox 1.0-3.0.X (but can be forced to work with Firefox 3.1/3.5 via Nightly Tester Tools) Source: Mozilla Links

Thunderbird related news from the March 16th Mozilla Project Weekly Status meeting: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 Shipping on Wednesday Fixes in sync with Firefox 3.0.7 TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder) – Status: In Progress Auto-update of users of older 3.0 alphas and betas to 3.0beta2 should be live soon (bug 482962) 3.0b3 in progress; planning updates soon Enabling Spotlight search using about:config on OS X nightly builds should now work again (bug 290057)

For the past few months I’ve been following Thunderbird Bug 227305: Support drag-drop messages to desktop / file-system window (e.g. Explorer). Unlike MS Outlook, Thunderbird currently does not allow you to save an email message by dragging it to your desktop.  Not quite sure of the circumstances as to how I became aware of and started tracking this bug, likely a contact-us or a forum posting. This bug was filed back in December 2003 with Thunderbird 0.1 and for the most part over the past 5-years has laid dormant. There have been occasional comments/votes in BugZilla but not much else….

Came home th other night to find this visitor hanging out under my porch light. Upon posting these photo (taken with my new camera) on a discussion forum I later learned this was a Sphinx Moth.

Just Released Firefox 3.1b3 – March 12th, 2009 Schedule this Coming Week Thunderbird 2.0.2.21 – March 18th, 2009 Future Release Firefox 3.0.8 – April 7th, 2009 Firefox 3.5b4 – Mid April 2009

Just Released NONE Schedule this Coming Week Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 – March 18th, 2009 Future Release NONE

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…

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…