Keith's Weblog: Comments on "MozillaZine: Thunderbird 1.5 Released"

by Chris

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:37:23 +0000

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.

by Nathaniel

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:08:20 +0000

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.

by Keith

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:37:59 +0000

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

by Keith

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:19:40 +0000

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.

by Mase

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:41:38 +0000

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!