Just Released Thunderbird 3.6.24 – November 8th Thunderbird 8 – November 8th Thunderbird 10 Earlybird (10.0a2) – November 11th Coming Soon To Be Announced Thunderbird 9 Beta (9.0b1) December 20th Thunderbird 9 Final Release Thunderbird 10 Beta (10.0b1)* Thunderbird 11 Earlybird (10.0a2)* Future Releases January 31st, 2012 Thunderbird 10 Final Release Thunderbird 11 Beta (11.0b1)* Thunderbird 12 Earlybird (12.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more…
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On November 11, 2011, Mozilla has pushed Thunderbird 10 on to the Earlybird Developmental channel. Please be aware there are two issues concerning this release that may affect users: The Add-on Comparability Reporter is not working correctly (also applies to Firefox 10 Aurora). Users will need to go into Thunderbird’s about:config (Tools > Options… > Advanced – Config Editor…) and add the following Boolean preference: extensions.checkCompatibility.10.0a and set it to FALSE. Restart Earlybird and your extensions should be enabled again Lightning users need to manually update to Lightning 1.2a2. Thunderbird 10.0 is scheduled for release on January 31st, 2012.
On November 11, 2011, Mozilla completed the merge of Firefox 10.0 on to the Aurora development channel for both Desktop and Android. What’s New in Firefox Aurora: Firefox Aurora Notes for Windows, Mac, Linux Firefox Aurora Notes for Android Firefox 10 is scheduled for release on January 31, 20112. Important! Add-on Compatibility Reporter is not correctly working with Firefox (and Thunderbird 10). You will need to go into about:config and manually add the Boolean Preference extensions.checkCompatibility.10.0a and set to FALSE.Once you restart Firefox your add-ons should be working again.
Updated 03/09/2013: Removed references to now defunct Personas Themes. Updated 11/16/2011: Added info for backup and restore of Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts. Also added new step in the Starting Over section. If you’ve been using the same profile since Firefox 3.6 (or older) you may run into performance issues with newer versions of Firefox. In the case of Firefox 8, some users have reported the browser is very unstable. This can be caused by bad/out-dated extensions and/or a damaged profile. With a new profile you are starting over from scratch with Firefox at its ‘factory default’ settings. However, you can bring…
The Brief feed-reader extension was last updated on April 8th, 2011 which was shortly after Firefox 4 was release. There are some issues with using Brief in Firefox 6 and newer. While the add-on says it will work for Firefox 9, it does not work correctly in the Beta 1 release. The Mark As Read option does not work. There is developmental version, 1.6b1 that is suppose to work better with Firefox 6 and newer. There has been some upgrades to the UI in this version as well. To update to 1.6b1: Go to Brief on AMO Scroll to the…
A regular on Go Firefox! had been having some issues with Firefox 8 crashing when using Google, specifically when clicking images. After some trial error of restarting Firefox with add-ons disabled and re-enabling them one at a time (the best way to find a troublesome add-on) they determined the troublemaker was ironically OptimizeGoogle 0.79 add-on. After a little for digging I noticed this version was release on October 26th. However, in the version history section of the AMO page I noticed a version 0.79.1 submitted for review on November 3rd. Now, last check which was on October 26th, the queue…
This morning we started getting emails from our regular subscribers letting us know The Blog was coming up as an Attack Page. We even got a couple ‘courtesy emails’ from our hosting provider as well. For most of the morning we worked will Google to identify the issue and remove all the malicious content. We were notified by Google earlier this evening the latest scan came back clean and they would be removing the Attack Page warnings. We are still trying to piece together what happened, but it appears there were only a few posts from earlier this year that…
Mozilla has merged Firefox 9 on to the beta channel on November 10, 2011. The beta build is available for both desktop and Android users.Existing desktop Firefox 8 Beta users can update via Help > About Firefox or you can download Firefox 9 Beta from here. Android user should get an update notification or can get Firefox 9 Beta from the Android Market. What’s New in Firefox Beta [More Info]: Type Inference: Firefox Beta adds Type Inference to make JavaScript significantly faster. To learn more about how rich websites and Web apps with lots of pictures, videos and 3D graphics…
Another change in Firefox 8 which was not very well documented is with small icons on dark Personas and glass is the icons are inverted (white). Also this applies to the default theme if Tabs on Top is turned off. This was as a result of Bug 671553. Normal Icons Inverted Icons I have created a Stylish Script that will un-invert the icons. However, it does not restore the actual button or glow effect though on some Personas.
These two add-ons/programs seem to be causing the majority of startup crashes with Firefox 8. 1/ If you have the addon Roboform, be sure you have the latest version v7.6.2 because the previous versions of that addon cause crashes of FF Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691271 You can delete the addon folder in your profile which is {22119944-ED35-4ab1-910B-E619EA06A115} (Roboform GUID). 2/ If you have the program Rapport from Trusteer Ltd (security tool provided by banks etc to secure user transactions), remove it. It is very crashy. Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699776