Bienvenu's Blog

We’ve started landing patches for the next 2.0.0.x release of Thunderbird, as we get the patches approved by the 2.0.0.x driver team. This means that having people running the latest 1.8 nightly builds is very helpful for us, to make sure the fixes work, and there aren’t any regressions. You can find the latest 1.8/2.0.0.x builds here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8

The Rumbling Edge should start tracking the bugs that are fixed in the 2.0.0.5 pre builds soon.

I landed my patch for tabbed e-mail last night, so it’s in today’s nightly trunk build. There are lots of issues with it, but we decided to land it so that other people can improve it. (If you don’t use tabs, you won’t encounter the issues.) Shortly after I landed it, Scott figured out how to make the tabs look like they do in Firefox, which is a big improvement.

A few known issues – the close button doesn’t work (though context click | close tab does work), strange things happen with messages open in a tab if you switch the 3-pane layout, and the context menu on tabs gets confused if the tab is not selected. But we should be able to fix the issues pretty quickly and add new capabilities. In particular, I’d like to add some prefs to make double click open messages&folders in a new tab instead of a new window.