It’s official! ThunderBrowse has gotten over one million downloads! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Thanks to all of you who have downloaded, supported, donated to, wrote about and continue to use ThunderBrowse, you are all winners!
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OVER 1 MILLION DOWNLOADS
Saturday, April 16th, 2011Update 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.
Updates 3.2.6.7 and 3.2.6.8
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Alright, so here’s what’s changed since my last posting:
- 3.2.6.7 has FINALLY been released on AMO.
- I’m uploading 3.2.6.8 to AMO right now. It has support for upto RC1. Also fixes a visual bug in the wizard and a bug where uninitialized objects will halt link loading.
- The tabs build has been updated with the fixes from 3.2.6.8.
- IMPORTANT: The Summer of Funding thanks page will now just be a mention to the group as a whole. The reason for this change is because some people might not want to be mentioned (for various reasons) and it’s really hard to keep track. If you do want to be listed by name and you did donate during the Summer Of Funding, please email me (general[at]thunderbrowse.com).
In other news, we were also mentioned in the PC Magazine review for Thunderbird 3. Awesome!
That’s pretty much about it.
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009This blog post isn’t so much about ThunderBrowse as it is about me. But first, let’s get a few things out of the way.
- We now have a license to Postbox. This will make it easier to keep track of Postbox updates and remain compatibility.
- Some new donations have come in. If you donated recently, thank you very much. I’m sorry I haven’t had the time to write back to all of you (as I normally do).
- Tabs build is a bit halted right now. I’m not sure if I want to release it as 3.2.7 because of the number of hacks involved. I’m thinking of getting it reviewed by someone at Mozilla and see what they think.
- I’ve yet to make the thank you page to the Summer of Funding donors. I’ll get to it. There is a reason behind this.
It kinda sounds like I’m slacking here, but I want to let you know that I’ve been sick for most of the month with the flu. Now I have “Super Flu” (or the Swine Flu). Let me tell you, this flu is a pain in the neck. Literally.
This is why ThunderBrowse hasn’t had any updates for awhile. Sorry. Hope that I get better soon.
Introducing ThunderBrowse's Summer of Funding
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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.
What is Summer of Funding?
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! 
How can I help?
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]).
