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Now availible on AMO.

Everything has been translated! I will be uploading this to AMO soon!

I’ve also removed the beta 2 post from the blog, as well as the link to the beta 2 installer.

I couldn’t get the binaries to work properly. So I’m removing support for now. The feature might become available in the future.

But not to be too sad, but I might as well tell you right now that File uploading support actually only applies to plain text document until a better method is discovered. Binary content doesn’t send well using the current method.

While it does do what it should, it fails early on during the send, giving a partial/header of a file rather than the complete one.

I hope you are not all disappointed at this, roadblock, to say the least.

If binary uploads are not solved by the time 3.2.1.8 is fully translated, partial uploading support will be added, while binary uploading content will be worked on.

There is a possibility that this is impossible for the current means, but there might be a workaround (I see a few possible workarounds).

To start, this might be the longest version changes since ThunderBrowse 3.0, this list seems to just get longer. Lots of new stuff is coming in, loads of old bugs are getting smashed.

3.2.1.8 has an incompatibility checker. On startup, it checks to see if the user has TBExtInt, BrowsrBounce and/or ThunderUpdate installed. If they do, ThunderBrowse removes the obsolete extension(s) and then restarts.

It’s better than the older versions, which checked for an old pref, then checked if it was false. Then it did the uninstall. Not really the best way. If you see a dialog stating that Thunderbird needs to restart, when you started Thunderbird, it means you have an incompatible extension, and it has been automatically uninstalled.

You don’t have a choice in uninstalling these extensions (note: those extensions are written by me. If the list ever needs a 3rd party extension added, a prompt will be added). Earlier versions had this but it was removed because if the user canceled, Thunderbird would show up as a blank window.

To minimize on the amount of checks, it only runs once, on the main mail window. No other window starts the checks.