Hunspell has replaced the old MySpell spell check engine in Thunderbird 3. Hunspell also replaced MySpell in OpenOffice.org last year. Good news is dictionaries that are already installed while for MySpell will work with the Hunspell engine. Hunspell offers support for Asian languages, Unicode support, morphological analysis and support for complex compounds and agglutinative languages like Azeri, Basque, Estonian and Hungarian. No word at this time when Hunspell will replace MySpell in Fx 2.0.0.X/3.X or TBird 2. News Source: Mozilla Links
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Here are the highlights of this week’s Weekly Update Meeting: Major Update (Fx 1.5.0.12 >> 2.0.0.4) – rolled out with about 3 million users taking advantage of the upgrade. No discussion in news groups TBird 3 – Hunspell, new spell check engine on trunk but not in any builds yet. Fx 3 – Alpha 6 Completed: Updated SQLite Improved cookie performance Support for site-specific preferences Miscellaneous fixes and UI improvements to the Add-ons manager, download manager, bookmarks and history. Work on Beta 1 is commencing: Places UI changes Bookmarks sync Web-based protocol handling (first UI maybe this week) Identity UI…
Thunderbird like Firefox does have about:config settings. But, how the heck do you get to about:config in Thunderbird since there is no address bar to type about:config in. The access to about:config is well hidden: From Tools, select Options…, Click the Advance Tab, select (if it is not already) the General sub-tab and finally click the Config Editor… button. Note: On TBird 3 builds you will get a “This gun is loaded!” warning message the first time (and each time if you don’t disable) you access this option. Click for Full Size Image Alternatively, if you don’t want to go…
The newest Thunderbird 3.0a1pre nightly (062707) now has tabs support. It doesn’t work very well, but it is important to keep in mind TBird 3.0 is still in very early development (not even an official Alpha release yet). A couple minor quirks, the close tab buttons are there but don’t do anything (need to right click on the tab and select “Close Tab’). Also double-clicking a message will cause it to open in a new window. You will need to right-click on the message and select ‘Open Message In New Tab’ option. TBird 3 is also very unstable as it…
Here a few highlights from this week’s Weekly Update Meeting. Fx 2.0.0.5 & TBird 1.5.0.13/2.0.05 – Target official release date 07/31/07. Beta release 07/24/07 Major Update (Fx 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.4) – Roll out delayed until 06/28/07 due to some issues with users losing home page and default search engine preferences. Fx 3 (A6) Places (Places team) down to the last few blockers for A6 freeze patch expected soon to hook up full text indexing to places UI specs being finalized, implementation already started lots of plumbing and blockers Site Specific Prefs (myk) Framework landed, available to UI and extensions Text…
Recently a comment was left on my Get Mail Extension stating the add-on was no longer on AMO (addons.mozilla.org) and provided a link to his Toolbar Buttons extension. Once installed and you restart Firefox (SunBird, Flock or Thunderbird) right-click on the toolbar and select ‘Customize…’ , you will discover a treasure trove of new toolbar buttons. Simply drag and drop the buttons to your toolbar. Important: be sure to click ‘Done’ when finished. If you click the X instead, your changes will not be saved. A couple buttons I found useful were Undo Close Tab and Check for Update (much…
Here’s an overview of today’s (06/18) Weekly Update meeting (items in purple are noteworthy): Fx 1.5.0.12 – Major Update (1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.4) still scheduled for Thursday (06/21) Fx 1.5.0.13 – ??? I think that was a typo as 1.5.0.12 is the last release on the 1.5 branch Fx 2.0.0.5 – Next regularly scheduled release on the 2.0 branch. Daily triage meetings at 10am PDT (650-903-0800, 91#, 262#). Tuesday (06/19) discussion on the 2.0.0.5 release schedule Fx 3.0: Places (Places team) tagging backend landed Dan Mills (thunder) demoed bookmark sync at Developer Day Tokyo plenty of discussion about UI in dev.apps.firefox,…
Just checking over at getthunderbird.com and noticed version 2.0.0.4 has been released. See the release notes from more info on this security update. Most users should automatically be offered an upgrade (if updates are active) in the next couple days. Alternatively, users can get the new version via Help menu >> Check For Updates.
Here are the highlights from today’s Weekly Update meeting: Major Update (Fx 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.4) Still only being offered to Fx 1.5.0.12 users on the “Beta (update) Channel“. Too early to tell about success at this time. Scheduled be offered to all Fx 1.5.0.12 users around June 21st Fx 2.0.0.5 Separate meeting today to discuss release scope and schedule. More details later this week or at the next update Fx 3a6 More back end work/improvements (tagging) with Places. Focus on Security Bugs as for overall security push. Larry coming soon! Gecko 1.9a6 Security Focus: Tracking 24 specific bugs with 10…
Lots has happened in the past two weeks (last Monday was Memorial Day) including some new Fx (both branches) and TBird releases. Fx 1.5.0.12 – The release of this build on Wednesday, May 30th marks the end of the security and other updates on the old Fx 1.5 branch. Now would be a good time to go to Fx 2! Major Updates – If you are currently on the ‘Beta’ update channel with Fx 1.5.0.12 you may be presented with the option to migrate over to Fx 2.0.0.4 later this week. I might try this out, but then I am…