I’ve been upgrading the New Tab System for awhile now. The biggest thing is removing the hook to the main messagepane. What it will do is essentially make ThunderBrowse only work within ThunderBrowse’s TB3 tabs but no other tabs.

This is basically the options you’ll get:

• TB2 like tabs
• TB3 tabs with a urlbar in the messagepane
• TB3 tabs with no urlbar in the messagepane or in emails.

These options make up a new tab in the settings window called “Tabs”, where you’ll be able to make a decision on which tab system you want to use.

Releases (3.2.7)

This next version will also probably be the first version with TB3 Tabs to release on AMO. That’s right, I’m going to push the new tabs build to AMO (after some more fixes).

Left Click Worries go bye bye

The other thing I’m improving is open links in new tab feature. I’m going to add some sort of domain check that will filter links that are not from the same domain into other domains. If a URL link is not from the same website you are currently on, it will open in a new tab.

For example:

You have some google.com search results. The search results have a link to wikipedia. The wikipedia link will open in a new tab because it’s not google.com. Back on google.com, you click for the next page of results. That page is hosted on google.com. The url opens in the same tab.

Everything in a list

This is what has changed since the last version:

• Fixed RSS Header links
• Improved Left click handling
• TB3 tab systems and loads of tab handling improvement
• Bug fixes from when last updating ThunderBrowse to TB3
• Getting ready to push the TB3 tabs build as a release rather than a beta
• Fixed gloda search results not displaying the message body
• New settings window stuff
• Easy styling support that allows themers to add support for ThunderBrowse in their theme.
• Replaced the New Tab icon to one that looks way better
• Added Postbox Support

When does it come out?

The new version has a bunch of strings that are going to need to be translated, so the new version won’t be out until the locales have been completed (or when I drop the hammer on localization and release it as is).

While this is being translated, I plan to try to add support for Postbox into this new build. The tabs build has been going with no Postbox support and I want to try to add it before 3.2.7 releases.

3.2.7 will have support for Postbox (however, it cannot use TB3 tabs).

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.

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.

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.