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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.

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.

I’ve released TBExtInt 0.4 today. It’s now on AMO.

The code is a lot cleaner now then before, and it no longer requires ThunderBrowse being installed.

The extension is for both Firefox and Thunderbird. Install it into both of them for this process to work. Or if you have ThunderBrowse installed, you only need to install it into Firefox.

It barrows heavily from ThunderBrowse for the Thunderbird side of the code. The Firefox version just has a code reorganization.

You can download the new version at AMO:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7183

and at:

http://www.thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/download-manager.php?id=3

NOTE: TBExtInt can’t be installed into Thunderbird if ThunderBrowse is currently installed. 3.2.1.8 will detect TBExtInt’s installation and remove it from Thunderbird automatically. More on that later.

TB Properties 0.6 is now on AMO.