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I’ve updated my bug reporting system (this is the http://thunderbrowse.com/bugreport one). And if you got here thinking Anonymantis has a new version, it doesn’t. It hasn’t had a new version update in 2 years.

I’ve personalized my installation a bit, I’ve added a better status page. And was going to add a place to input your version, but that didn’t work out as well as I thought (Mantis is very picky about this).

The new additions include:

1. Versions affected area
2. Resolutions and version where the fixes appear
3. A much needed notes section, where instead of me having to update the issue over and over, I can just use notes (hooray!)
4. A section for users to add their own notes (html is not allowed, and will be removed)

Hopefully this will make bug reporting even easier, allowing for better communication. Unfortunately, updates will not be sent to your inbox as Mantis can only send emails to registered users. The only real way to get this to work is via cron, which might be too hard on the system.

Please do not file a bug to see the changes. Instead please look at the picture below:

The new paypal buttons are up on the site, and I’ve also added a new page to the navigation that’s dedicated to handling donations (yay). The buttons around the site (that are not on the donation page) will allow you to donate whatever amount you want.

Fixed donation buttons are on the donations page (let’s say the word donation a few more times!) .

You cannot donate via ThunderBrowse (The paypal website denies it because of the useragent I believe), so you should donate in Firefox or IE or whatever browser you have.

Yes, it’s been like 6 months since I’ve offered a version to the public before it actually released. Betas are great because it makes it easier on me (and difficult at the same time).

I might start making this a regular process, provided some terms are understood here:

1. I am not responsible if something bad happens or any epic problem you suddenly get. Proceed at your own risk.
2. These versions are beta, and don’t reflect the final version, features announced in the next version may or may not appear in the beta.
3. Beta versions SHOULD NOT appear on ANY other site OTHER THAN thunderbrowse.com
4. Don’t complain that a fix you wanted isn’t in this version. Sorry, I’m not god. You’ll have to wait (or I might not want to fix it)
5. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE email me about what you think of these versions. Email me about bugs you may find that are not in the current public version but are in the beta version. This saves everyone time and gets the new version out faster. Email me if you find everything is just fine, too.
6. Some languages are not available in beta versions. It’s not my fault if your language is one of them. I try my best to get as many as possible before I go with a beta
7. SEND FEEDBACK to beta@thunderbrowse.com

Thank you for testing the new versions of ThunderBrowse. You can keep track on new betas by going here:

http://www.thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/category/beta/

And its RSS feed here:

http://www.thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/category/releases/beta/

The first beta available is 3.2.1.8, check for the next post.

Today is the 1 year “birthday” of ThunderBrowse. This might not be such an excitement to you, but personally, I see this as a great milestone.

ThunderBrowse started from me reading a LifeHacker post about using TiddlyWiki in Thunderbird, so I played around with Thunderbird’s HTML rendering, and created URLBar for Thunderbird, which simply was, a URLBar for Thunderbird and not much else. ThunderBrowse continued to be added upon until it finally reached to what it is now!

Happy Birthday ThunderBrowse! I hope you all enjoy ThunderBrowse, and don’t forget to donate!

Hooray!

ThunderBrowse now has a new homepage that’s a lot cleaner and neater than the old version. I spent today jquerying and rewriting the old and new websites so they share the same data all the time.

Hope you like it!