Facepalm moment!
I had totally forgotten that I didn’t update some of the language files in 3.2.6.2 so some of the other languages will see error messages in the GUI. I thought I didn’t have any new strings, but it turns out I did (one I added a long time ago).
Sorry about the confusion and thanks to all the recent donors to the project (it really means a lot to me)! 
Update on the Summer of Funding:
Currently we are half way to the first milestone, Thunderbird 3 Tabs. Can’t wait!
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!
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:
Can you guess where I got that title?
I graduated from high school recently, and I’ve already been approved to my dream college. The problem is that college is expensive and in this world, you have to make money by working.
This means I don’t have time to keep developing my freeware projects anymore as I have to focus on paid work instead.
But I love working on ThunderBrowse because it’s something new and I love helping people. I hope that you guys can help me too.
The truth is that I don’t get paid to work on ThunderBrowse. Ads pay out once every eight months and I only get about $100 dollars (ads pay near to nothing [it's such a ripoff]). I also don’t get many donations on behalf of the project.
The thing is that I have lots of great ideas for features to add to ThunderBrowse, many of them that you guys, the community, have suggested that I add. With college approaching, I need to be focusing on paid assignments.
But you can help, and this is where Summer of Funding comes in.
ThunderBrowse Popup Window
Summer of Funding is a little of experiment that I want to try with the users of Thunderbird and ThunderBrowse in general.
Users can donate money that will support the continuation of ThunderBrowse development and help me pay part of my college tuition for the first year.
I’m going to set up a milestone system, so that whenever the monetary amount hits a milestone, I’ll start working on a new feature that will greatly improve ThunderBrowse.
I’ve yet to decide how exactly new features will be chosen for each milestone (milestones are every $200 dollars [thus there are 5 milestones]) but most of these features will be ones that are most requested. I might put up a poll to decide what gets worked on next.
3.2.7 will be the last version that will have anything new or big in it as I’ll not be available to work on ThunderBrowse during college. If you really want to get some new and improved features and fixes added, then help me out!
You can donate to the project. Currently, we accept payment via Paypal (you can pay with your credit card [you do not need an account with paypal to donate]).
Recently, AMO decided that all extensions hosted must have a software license, or the addon cannot be updated.
Being Mozilla, the only licenses available were completely open source software licenses. However, ThunderBrowse is free software, but not open source but most free software licenses were way too limiting or too open.
For example, one of the Microsoft Public licenses applies to C++, C# and Javascript files. It sounds great, until you look further in. One of the requirements is that your software has to run on Windows only and your software cannot be used in a business environment.
This prompted me to write my own license using the W3C License as a template. Nothing has really changed from what I’ve said in the past. ThunderBrowse is free to use but not open source.
The new license can be found here: http://www.thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/license/
In a nutshell:
[1]: This clause has an exception that is mainly focused on print media such as magazines. I will only allow ThunderBrowse to be sold with my express written permission (this means if you want to sell a magazine bundled with a CD/DVD and it contains ThunderBrowse you need to get my permission).
[2]: We don’t want people changing and/or distributing individual files and/or wrapping the changes they and/or someone else made into an extension and then distributing it. If you created a custom skin for ThunderBrowse using Stylish or something, by all means, please upload it. This clause may change to no modifications at all if problems arise.
[3]: This pertains to software bundling that some people do. We don’t want ThunderBrowse to be bundled with anything unless we say that it is okay (again, asking for permission is the way to go).
Today is ThunderBrowse’s “birthday” (so to speak) and it turns two today! Woo! Hope you enjoy it!
Update on 3.2.5: Currently being translated at babelzilla, about halfway done. We have six languages already finished with two more on the way. I’m still waiting on the other six.
I might release a beta today, but I’m not sure just yet.
