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Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives

Posted by Zonk on from the fresh-from-their-brains-to-your-door dept.

Tech Support writes "Thunderbird 1.5 is here! It's ready to download, so get going. Finally, Firefox 1.5 has its counterpart. New features included automatic updates, anti-phishing protection, inline spellchecking, saved search folders, podcasting, RSS improvements, the ability to delete attachments from messages, and a whole lot more."

3 of 399 comments (clear)

  1. no changes since RC2 by AndyST · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you had 1.5rc2 installed: Scott MacGregor wrote that the 1.5 release has no changes since rc2. So you won't need to update unless you really want that build date (like me)

  2. Re:hope they fixed some of the more glaring bugs by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 5, Informative

    Trivial to fix with a custom userChrome.css stylesheet.
    I don't have Thunderbird, but I had problem with expanded headers so I simply did the following: /* if full headers are enabled, trigger a scrollbar after ten lines */
    #msgHeaderView
    {
    max-height: 10em;
    overflow: auto;
    } /* keep the enigmail box from creating a scrollbar - annoying */
    #expandedEnigmailBox
    {
    max-width: 80em;
    }

    I don't know if the DOM Inspector is available for Thunderbird, but every time I want to
    tweak the suite a little, I actually edit it. No harder than editing a web page.

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  3. Re:No, and in addition... by masklinn · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're not blocked by the update, they're blocked by the creator of the extension in the configuration file.

    If you want to try to manually bump your extensions (so that Thunderbird sees them as compatible), close Thunderbird, go to %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\{your_profile}\exte nsions, open the "extensions.rdf" file, bump all the "em:maxVersion" that are set at 1.0, 1.0+ or 1.0.something to "1.5+", save, close, restart thunderbird.

    Beware though, if you have TRULY incompatible extensions (may happen, especially for big version changes), you may bork your UI completely. I'd suggest a full profile archiving before trying so that you can reset everything if issues arise.

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