Version 3.3.4 has been released on AMO. It fixes the bug in 3.3.3 that caused emails to not load properly under the NM version of tabs.
ThunderBrowse 3.3.4 released
November 26th, 20103.3.3 and Email reading bugs
November 23rd, 2010I’ve gotten several reports that users have not been able to read their emails while using the NM version of tabs. The workaround is to not use the TB3[NM] version of tabs and instead just use TB3 tabs until the fix is released.
The fix has already been uploaded to AMO.
ThunderBrowse 3.3.3 released!
November 22nd, 2010Version 3.3.3 can be downloaded at AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/5373/
Announcing ThunderBrowse 3.3.3
November 14th, 2010Notice: This post was written waaaaaay back in August.
So during the downtime between hosts, I did a couple of modifications to ThunderBrowse to improve it and add some new stuff. And because everything is better in list form, here you go:
- Improvements in favicon handling
- Fixed the invalid host name error
- Added tab browsing support to the popup window
- Improved page loading code
- Improved event handling
- Fixed issues with links not capturing in events
- Fixed chrome content issues
- Popups now load into tabs (this is highly experimental [to tell you the truth, this was the by product of improving the loading code]). This might not always work, and I don’t plan on making popups permanently load in tabs.
- General improvements
- Fixed email bar problems
- Updated compatibility support. Postbox 2 now works.
I’ve just uploaded this version to AMO and I predict it will be approved soon. From here on out, expect sparse updates for ThunderBrowse, for reasons I mentioned in my last post.
State of ThunderBrowse
November 14th, 2010Hi guys!
As you may know, I haven’t updated the site or ThunderBrowse in awhile. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m currently a student at DigiPen and as such, I am always busy. I’ve been receiving a lot of emails recently saying that ThunderBrowse isn’t working as expected with the newest Thunderbird release. I’m also getting emails saying that ThunderBrowse has “broken my emails”. I’m going to state for the last time that ThunderBrowse DOES NOT TOUCH YOUR EMAILS. ThunderBrowse hooks into the rendering engine for Thunderbird. If anything, ThunderBrowse may make your emails not display correctly (in an extreme case) but it will not delete, read, modify, make fun of or parse your emails.
This means that either:
- Mozilla locked down some core function that ThunderBrowse needs
- They changed the UI so ThunderBrowse cannot patch its chrome into the window
- Everyone somehow got a corrupted download (actually, this seems to be the case)
- It only works for me because the development build contains tons of fixes (probably)
I also want to thank all the people who donated recently. Because of your contributions, I’m able to keep the server running during the long periods when I cannot work on ThunderBrowse.
In the past I did mention that because I’m now in college, ThunderBrowse is on the backburner. I’m currently on a team working on a video game. I can’t go into the specifics, but I’ll try to post a link to a blog if we decide to start one up.
Now, I know the currently available version of ThunderBrowse has not been working in Postbox. I’ve just tested the newest development build and was able to get it to work just fine. So for now, I’m going to release my current development build of ThunderBrowse as version 3.3.3. This should fix the majority of problems you might have encountered. Some websites are still broken, but that’s not something I can fix right now.
Additionally, comments are broken. Not sure why, don’t have time to fix.
Anyways, the announcement and the upload of the new version will be covered in the next post.
Cheers!
