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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.

BETA: Thunderbird 3 Tabs

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

I’ve made a beta version of ThunderBrowse that deals with Thunderbird 3 tabs. This build allows users to change which tab system they like. You can either have TB2 tabs (in the messagepane) or you can choose to use the TB3 tab bar.

This currently doesn’t have the thank you page for all the donors in the summer of funding (give me a break, I have the flu [I'll try to get them added as fast as I can]).

This version of ThunderBrowse may have some bugs and might cause some problems (as it is a beta). I will not be responsible if anything goes wrong.

Thunderbird 3 Tab build will only work in Thunderbird installs. It currently doesn’t work in Postbox (I’ll fix it later).

If you are ready to try the new build, click here: http://www.thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/download-manager.php?id=12

Let me know if you have any problems with this build and please remember to email all feedback to: beta[AT]thunderbrowse.com

And yes, I do know about the tab titles showing undefined. It’s a bug in Thunderbird.

Summer of Funding over!

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

The summer of funding is officially over and we never made it to $200 dollars. But that’s okay because since it was so close to $200, I’ll release a TB3 tabs build soon.

Normally, I would be releasing a beta now, but I’m really sick and cannot program much today. I’ll try to get it out before next week.

I’d like to take the time and thank all our donors for supporting this project, it means so much to me.

The beta build will be available on this site, with a final release scheduled for when I get enough feedback.

Exciting Progress!

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Alright, here’s a massive update. Ready?

First: We are currently at $30 dollars in the Summer of Funding. This means I’m still pretty broke and if it had not been for some kind donors already, development would be pretty much no where so far. So please help keep ThunderBrowse development going. I want to work on this thing but I really can’t unless it brings in money.

Second: I finally found a way to fix bug 67, also known as the bug that causes webpages to magically launch in an external browser when they shouldn’t. The fix was to rewrite the capturing system into a new and much more improved system. This leads into the next few things.

Try to do this in ThunderBrowse 3.2.6.1.

Try to do this in ThunderBrowse 3.2.6.1.

Third: Theoretically, ThunderBrowse should now keep everything within ThunderBrowse. No more launching in both Firefox and ThunderBrowse. Everything stays within ThunderBrowse (provided you use ThunderBrowse for the browser, not just to fix links). There is no way to say this is true for every website on the internet, but it passed everything in my test cases.

Fourth: We now have support for both onSubmit and onChange. There is a small bug with onChange that causes it to launch Firefox if the change is supposed to submit a form. This is a bug with Thunderbird and there is no way to fix it from my end.

Fifth: Today I spent a couple of minutes rewriting some settings descriptions so they don’t look like a drunken idiot wrote them (to tell you the truth, I wrote most of those strings extremely late at night [I do not write very well late at night]).

Sixth: The coolest thing of all. ThunderBrowse 3.2.6.2 will have support for Postbox. That’s right. If you follow my twitter at all, you’ll find that I mentioned this quite a few days ago after this announcement was made. And to prove it, here’s an awesome screenshot:

ThunderBrowse in Postbox

ThunderBrowse in Postbox

If ThunderBrowse 3.2.7 ships with TB3 tab support (YOU CAN HELP GET THIS ADDED!), Postbox will have TB3 tab support as well.

Seventh: I went with my family today (with the exception of my dad as he is currently very sick) to go see UP. I almost cried through the whole thing. I loved it. Pixar is the best. Props to all you guys, that was the best. Seriously, go see UP.

And that’s what has been going on!

SoF: Thunderbird 3 tabs

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

And here is the announcement for our when we hit our first milestone in Summer of Funding! This feature will be developed and a beta will release when the first $200 dollar milestone is hit.

The first milestone will implement TB3 Tabs!

TB3 Tabs

ThunderBrowse using TB3 Tabs Mockup

Many users have asked me for this feature, and I’ve long said that it’s a total maybe. I’m not super fond of TB3 tabs, but I’d be happy to add such a feature. I’ve done some research and it’s totally possible for ThunderBrowse to use the native Thunderbird 3 tabs. However, adding the feature in would require a lot of work.

Here’s what implementing Thunderbird 3 tabs would change:

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