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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

MozillaZine: Thunderbird 1.5 Released

MozillaZine: Thunderbird 1.5 Released. Excellent. Here are the release notes. My favorite feature is probably "Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient", which is such an obvious feature. I've wanted that for a long time.

Update: Crap, you can't upgrade over an existing install.

Update: They should have built-in something like Quick File. Actually, I just realized that the current version of Quick File doesn't run on 1.5 yet.

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Chris wrote:

My favorite feature is the inline spell checking. Also obvious and long overdue. I wish Firefox would do the same for forms. I think there's a plugin, but native support would be a whole lot nicer.

∴ Chris | 12-Jan-2006 8:37am est | #8988

Nathaniel wrote:

Does it at least use your existing settings and folders/messages? I don't mind having to uninstall Thunderbird 1.0.x if the 1.5 install figures everything out afterwards.

∴ Nathaniel | 12-Jan-2006 2:08pm est | #8990

Dunno, I haven't installed it yet. And I may not for a while until Quick File works on it.

∴ Keith | 12-Jan-2006 2:37pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #8991

Oh, I just bit the bullet and installed it, after backing up some of my e-mail. I uninstalled the old version first and then installed 1.5 into the same directory. It seems to have worked fine, and all my data are still there. It notified me on first launch that Quick File will be disabled because it isn't compatible. I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it using this workaround, and it worked fine.

∴ Keith | 12-Jan-2006 3:19pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #8992

Mase wrote:

Hi, I have successfuly tried to change Quick File 0.15 extension prerequisities:

1) download quickfile-0.15.xpi,
2) rename it to .zip
3) open file install.rdf from .zip in notepad and change element em:maxVersion from 1.0 to 1.5
3) rename .zip to .xpi
4) install .xpi

Works for me!

∴ Mase | 18-Jan-2006 10:41am est | #9023

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