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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010We are back
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010So after a server migration, ThunderBrowse is now back online. Hooray!
I apologize for not giving a heads up to this downtime, I was unaware that the servers were going to go down. But now we don’t have to worry about that!
So basically, the old server went down was because ThunderBrowse was on a shared hosting account and the other people on the server decided to leave but not tell anyone else, thus the hosting account was suspended. This caused everyone to see the account was suspended while I migrated over to a brand new server.
I apologize for any confusion this might have caused. None of your accounts were closed, only our hosting account.
Thanks for understanding and I hope you continue to enjoy using ThunderBrowse.
FAQ Updated
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010I’ve gone through and updated the FAQ with better answers, more organization and better readability. Questions are now organized into sections based on common topics (like Plugin Issues), so you can quickly find the answer you want.
The FAQ is so much better now! 
Check it out: http://thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/faq/
Update on ThunderBrowse 3.3
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
ThunderBrowse 3.3 is going to be the compatibility version that I mentioned in my last post. 3.3 doesn’t have anything too substantial (actually, that’s a lie but a lot of the things I wanted to add ended up getting scrapped because Thunderbird kept working against me).
But one of the biggest things that has changed is….
That’s right! If you couldn’t tell from that fairly obvious screenshot to the right, ThunderBrowse now has support for Spicebird. You’ll see this in version 3.3! Get ready!
In addition, here all the other things that I can remember that has changed (basically what I worked on today):
- TB2 Tabs with Thunderbird 3 versions now work again. The issue stems to a problem with Mozilla removing the close button widget from the tabs element. This has been fixed.
- Several code stalls have been repaired
- Support for RESET form buttons
- Improvements in form handling (specifically radio buttons and checkboxes)
- Small style changes
- A few fixes in external browser launching (this should fix any problems you had before [as it worked in my tests])
- Fixed favicon issues with TB3Tabs
- Several main window style issues
- Settings window height has been increased so the buttons will still be visible when selecting different tab styles
- Improvement of charset rendering (your mileage may vary here)
- Argentinean Spanish Support (es-AR) by KNTRO
- Spicebird support (it’s missing a few small things [specifically, the toolbar buttons and the bookmark menu placement is off])
- Various loading Iimprovements (Pages load faster now)
- More form event fixes (Specifically the enter key)
- Javascript code loads correctly
- ThunderBrowse uses less memory
- Seriously, way faster page loading
- Better expression checking
- Removed unnecessary object conversions
There may or may not be more changes other than these, my repository history doesn’t go back far enough to check to see if there is anything else.
The status of TBZoom, TB Properties, and TBExtInt
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Heads up.
TBZoom will be fading out soon. With it, I will also be removing TB Properties. And before you grab onto your nearest email client to write to me, hear me out first.
Though don’t freak out when you hear me say “removed” in this post*, I mean it will no longer appear on the download page on ThunderBrowse.com. You can still download it here, but I offer no support for it.
TBZoom
TBZoom did a great job. It was supposed to allow the zoom manager from TB2 work for ThunderBrowse tabs, and it did so perfectly.
However, in 3.2.8, I added support for the TB3 zoom manager (in TB3 tabs). Because of this, TBZoom really isn’t needed as much as it was before. This doesn’t mean I’ll be removing it completely, it does mean that I will be removing it from update cycles. TBZoom will not be updated anymore because it doesn’t really need to be. It’s legacy software for Thunderbird 1.5-2.0.
TB Properties
* This one will completely die.
Now, with that aside, I will be stopping TB Properties support, remove it from AMO, delete its entry from the download page here and leave it only downloadable via the GS! Networks Project page. Why? Because MOST of the software on that page is BETA\ALPHA\EXPERIMENTAL.
I also don’t use TB Properties. And it’s more likely that if I’m not using it, I probably won’t be updating it. Several people have informed me that it broke their context menus on Thunderbird 3 when they tried to use it. Do note, that TB Properties is not supported for Thunderbird 3, and I take no responsibility for the fact some of you modified the code and the software stopped working. TB Properties had a moderate run, but it’s really just a sloppy hack.
TBExtInt
In addition, I will not be supporting TBExtInt. You might have realized this already. I’m going to make this official by saying that TBExtInt will not be further developed. It too was a rush job and does not reflect the quality of software that I normally strive for. It was an experiment and it’s results were mixed. I wished for better but I didn’t get what I thought I would.
In the end, TBExtInt became more of a burden than a solution. I learned a bit from it, I’m glad I didn’t spend a lot of work on it.
TB Noscript
A side note on Noscript, as I mentioned when I first wrote it, I won’t be continuing it. It was for fun to play around with some settings. By no means did I mean to make it a legitimate product. It was a small side project. As such, I was surprised when a lot of people downloaded it. I really wish that the real NoScript worked in Thunderbird, but I doubt that will ever happen.
