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thunderbirdbiff

Version History

1. Support for Polish (pl-PL) localization thanks to Leszek (teo) Zyczkowski at BabelZilla.
2. Support for Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) localization thanks to Feng Chao at BabelZilla.
3. Support for German (de-DE) localization thanks to Sportsman79 at BabelZilla.
4. Preliminary support for TB 3 (beta 1).
5. Support for FF 3.5.

1. Fixed issue with email startup on Mac platforms with the help of Alan Collins of the UK. Mac installs and manipulates Thunderbird ad a "bundle" (typically called Thunderbird.app) rather than a single executable file. This addon will now properly open the bundle. So on Mac, be sure to set the email path option to point at your Thunderbird.app location.

1. Prior to the release of Firefox 3, this addon was able to launch the user's default email client using a Firefox-provided facility. Not only has this mechanism been broken due to errors within the Firefox 3 code, but the response to my bug report clearly states that the facility being used will not be fixed and will be removed from Firefox alltogether in the future. So with this release, a new option has been added which permits the user to specify the fully qualified path to their Thunderbird executable. With this option correctly set, this addon will be able to launch Thunderbird properly on all clients and OS's. Sorry for the inconvenience. But I am convinced that we all will be better off in the long run.

1. Internal changes to the help file to ease localization efforts. Thanks to Jean-Bernard Marcon and Mark Heijl at BabelZilla for their help with this. End users should see no difference from these changes.
2. Portuguese (Brazilian) localization - thanks to Raryel Costa Souza and Rodrigo Bergmann Laurindoat BabelZilla!
   

1. At the prodding of Steve Ablin, added the ability to display an icon on a toolbar button as well as on the statusbar. Thanks Steve! However, this has a few limitations:

1. Fixed bug causing the default mail program to be launched/shown every time a new Firefox window is shown. Thanks to Gary who first reported this!
   

1. Removed use of dump() function and removed logging to the debugging console. To get verbose logging, use the option to log to a file. Errors and important informational messages will be written to the Javascript console as in prior versions.