When Mozilla released Thunderbird 38 (38.0.1) on June 11th one of the new features was being able to use GMail within Thunderbird without having to go into your GMail account and enable the ‘less secure authentication’. Problem is, how to enable this feature in Thunderbird is poorly documented. After some searching, I found the answer in an unlikely place…the comments on the article from The Mozilla Thunderbird Blog announcing Thunderbird 38: In an existing GMail account, you can switch the “Authentication Method” from “Normal Password” to “Oauth2″ (in both the IMAP and SMTP setup separately). Connection security should be SSL/TLS. If…
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The Mozilla Add-ons Blog has confirmed extension signing will be implemented in Firefox 40 for Android as well. Further, the ‘enforcement’ schedule will follow that of the desktop Firefox version. Automatic signing for Firefox for Android Add-ons hosted on AMO will begin soon.
For some odd reason AdBlock Plus in Firefox choose to use the keyboard CTRL+SHIFT+V to open the sidebar (blockable items). The problem with using this is CTRL+SHIFT+V is the universal keyboard shortcut to Paste as Plain Text of Paste without Formatting. After some searching I found a thread from October 2012 on the Adblock Plus Forums that provided a solution: In a new tab type about:config and press enter If needed click the I’ll be careful, I promise button on the ‘This might void your warranty warning’. In the search box paste extensions.adblockplus.sidebar_key You should see one result as a string with the default value…
For some odd reason AdBlock Plus in Thunderbird choose to use the keyboard CTRL+SHIFT+V to open the sidebar (blockable items). The problem with using this is CTRL+SHIFT+V is the universal keyboard shortcut to Paste as Plain Text of Paste without Formatting. After some searching I found a thread from October 2012 on the Adblock Plus Forums that provided a solution: From within Thunderbird go to Tools > Options > Advanced (OS X: Thunderbird > Preferences… | Linux: Edit > Preferences) and then click the Config Editor… button in the lower right of the Options/Preferences Window. If needed click the I’ll be careful, I promise…
I believe I mentioned this add-on last year when Mozilla unleashed Australia’s. Aris has put together an add-on which allows you to more than just customize, but rather fix the User Interface changes that Mozilla has made over the past year. Some of these includes: Disabling Pocket custom ‘about:newtab’ page for Firefox 42+ (developmental build) show add-on version number (version numbers will be removed starting with Firefox 40) Disable Reader Mode Options/Preferences in new window instead of new tab There are many more customization options available. Before installing the add-on take a moment and read through the About this Add-on section to…
Mozilla has released the next installment of the Thunderbird 38.x branch on July 9, 2015. Thunderbird 38.1.0 contains underlying code that is Firefox 38.1.0 esr. Some of the fixes and issues in this release include: FIXED – Copy/Paste into plain text editor deletes newlines from quoted text (bug 1143570) FIXED – OAuth2 authentication for GMail does not work when specified server is imap.gmail.com or smtp.gmail.com. (bug 1176773) UNRESOLVED – Import from Outlook and Eudora disabled, code currently not working (bug 1175055) Important! If you are still using Thunderbird 31.x, you will be prompted to update to Thunderbird 38.1.0 next week. The Thunderbird 31.x…
The server maintenance which involved moving this blog to a new server has been completed. We have also switched over to a new cleaner and simpler theme.
What has seemed like an eternity of flip-flopping about having a Windows 64-Bit (Win64) version of Firefox may very soon come to an end. Earlier this week Bug 1180792 was filed to enable 64-bit windows builds on release channel. In October 2014, Mozilla had started talking about having a Win64 release as early as Firefox 37 for March 2015. Firefox 37 came and went and still no Win64 released. There have been Win64 versions for Firefox 38 and 39, but those never offered outside the Beta channel. So, when will be seeing this Win64 release? There is still some debate about that right…
There are some regressions causing delays for the release of Thunderbird 38.1.0 (which was planned for June 30th). On 06/22/15 in TB-planning Kent posted: The current plan for Thunderbird 38.1.0 is to land patches on Monday, June 29 and try to release at the end of that week. This will have a number of fixes to regressions that were uncovered in the initial release. Two weeks later the first Release Candidate (RC) for 38.1.0 has been pushed out for the testers. If everything goes well with this RC then we could see the release of Thunderbird 38.1.0 by the end of…
Firefox 39 was suppose to be released on June 30th, but has been delayed until later this week due to a last-minute stability issue.