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3.2.3 Beta feedback

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
That's a bug

That's a bug

A few users have pointed out a couple of bugs (seriously, I’ve barely gotten any feedback from this version at all) that appear in the beta.

These bugs will be fixed in the final build:

  1. The statusbar does nothing
  2. The context menu doesn’t show up in TB3.0b2pre
  3. New user startpage has too large of an image
  4. Tabs don’t shift properly when closed (see image)

This version is currently in the translation stage, meaning I’m waiting on translators to finish translating everything. After that, the extension will go through more testing (and any last minute bug fixes) and will be released.

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3.2.3 Beta 1

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

It’s a beta time again! This is beta 1 of 3.2.3. It holds a ton of new features, bugfixes and many other things (if you saw the changelog on mantis, you would be amazed).

The beta only includes English locales (so it’s significantly smaller in file size compared to the public versions of ThunderBrowse).

3.2.3 Beta has been closed.

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Hooray! Development on Beta 1 is done!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

I’ve closed the beta 1 dev branch. Basically, it means I won’t add more stuff to the beta 1 code from now on and that the beta is coming really really soon (just right after I test all the code changes).

Stay tuned for the beta! (Please note: the beta is for en-US users only. If you attempt to view the beta in anything but en-US settings, your Thunderbird will likely crash [as I haven't got this translated yet]).

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Tutorial

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

What has mainly been holding back the release of the beta build was the new tutorial feature. I wanted to make users be able to discover all the advanced features of ThunderBrowse. The new feature was going to replace that Start page “Thank you for installing blah blah blah.”

In the end, I decided against add a tutorial and here is why:

  1. It added bloat: One of the biggest objectives in this build is cutting down bloat
  2. A tutorial just couldn’t make up for that start page: It was too much content to cover.
  3. I found myself constantly opening tabs for the user: Which I’ve learned from Firefox is a bad idea.
  4. ?????: I don’t really have a fourth reason.

Now, the tutorial is not going to appear in this build. I know it’s kinda sad, but one of the nicest features of ThunderBrowse is how small it is. If I finished that tutorial, you could probably imagine how long it would be to go through it and how large the total file size might be.

So, instead I’m going to go a different route. I’m going to rework that welcome page and update it severely (the last time it was updated was back when ThunderBrowse was still called UrlBar for Thunderbird [ew]).

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TB3.0b1 and ThunderBrowse

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

A few weeks ago, TB3.0b1 released and ThunderBrowse was the first addon to be capable with it (as a result of the beta build tests I do every now and then). Some of you might notice that TB3.0b1 has quite a few changes that may not make your ThunderBrowse experience as great as it was on TB2.

The first thing you might have experienced was that javascript wasn’t working in ThunderBrowse. That fact is that Thunderbird 3.0b1 denies all remote scripts (and there is currently no way to override this). Javascript is supposed to be fixed with a future nightly release of Thunderbird.

You might have also noticed that Plugins show up under the Extension manager. This means that Thunderbird now supports Plugins (which means support in ThunderBrowse). How awesome! However, you can only see them on very few websites as most sites require javascript and flash. Another downside is that links in flash content will open another browser.

Note: Youtube embeds work just fine.

If you use OpenDNS, you have probably expirenced the new security features. If you get a domain mismatch or visit a site with an invalid security certificate, you’ll see a new error page with a link to get around this. How nice. Downside is that the link is powered by javascript and thus is broken.

So hopefully this answers some of your questions about TB3.0b1 and ThunderBrowse. Enjoy the rest of 2008!

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