Archive for September, 2009

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

This blog post isn’t so much about ThunderBrowse as it is about me. But first, let’s get a few things out of the way.

  1. We now have a license to Postbox. This will make it easier to keep track of Postbox updates and remain compatibility.
  2. Some new donations have come in. If you donated recently, thank you very much. I’m sorry I haven’t had the time to write back to all of you (as I normally do).
  3. Tabs build is a bit halted right now. I’m not sure if I want to release it as 3.2.7 because of the number of hacks involved. I’m thinking of getting it reviewed by someone at Mozilla and see what they think.
  4. I’ve yet to make the thank you page to the Summer of Funding donors. I’ll get to it. There is a reason behind this.

It kinda sounds like I’m slacking here, but I want to let you know that I’ve been sick for most of the month with the flu. Now I have “Super Flu” (or the Swine Flu). Let me tell you, this flu is a pain in the neck. Literally.

This is why ThunderBrowse hasn’t had any updates for awhile. Sorry. Hope that I get better soon.

ThunderBrowse 3.2.6.5 Released

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

ThunderBrowse 3.2.6.5 is now available on AMO. I also just bumped the compatibility number from tb3.0b4pre to tb3.0b4 (I’ve yet to officially test the changes [I'm sick and I'm busy with other work] but it should work just fine [if not, submit a bug report please]).

Remember to try out the tabs build.

ThunderBrowse 3.2.6.5 and other updates

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

If you use ThunderBrowse on Postbox, you might notice that it doesn’t work anymore and the tabs build is just as broken.

Here’s what happened: Postbox developers changed how the message pane is displayed. This seems to be a reoccurring theme in Thunderbird (and messenger in general) development land.

Anyways, I fixed the problem in ThunderBrowse 3.2.6.5 and for good measure, I threw in some context based items into the special context menu for links. I’ve also included the fix in the new tabs build. TB3 Tabs for Postbox is not possible at the moment. Do not attempt to install the tabs build on Postbox. The registration flag is either not the same or not available (I didn’t have time to check).

I’ve uploaded the new tabs build (the link is the same as before) and I just uploaded 3.2.6.5 to AMO. I also fixed a small wizard bug for Postbox if you used a sandboxed copy.

ThunderBrowse Tutorial Vid #2

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

I made another tutorial video today. Apologies if it sounds bad, I’m sick and couldn’t record with my normal voice.

This video covers the startpage and how to change it. If you uninstalled ThunderBrowse and still see the ThunderBrowse start page, then you should be watching this video (because this was covered several years ago in the FAQ).

Anyways, here’s the video:

ThunderBrowse Tutorial Vid #1

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Today I made a tutorial vid on how to use ThunderBrowse. Oddly, the screen brightness is extreme on the YT video but not on my rendered clip. I’m not sure what that is about.

This tutorial video shows you how to use ThunderBrowse fullscreen:

I’m not sure if I want to really continue the video tutorials but if people are finding them useful, I will probably put up 3 or 4 more tutorials.