on Jul 13th, 2008Shredder - Mozilla Thunderbird 3
Hi there.
Early this morning, I found mistakes on a french website. No ones cares (even those who did it, maybe), but it was the reason why I decided to get Thunderbird 3 Alpha. Actually, the french dictionary was only available for Thunderbird 3, and I needed it to correct those mistakes, since I have a Qwerty keyboard, and since I’m too lazy to use an International Qwerty Layout. Maybe I’ll get a Dvorak Us Keyboard soon, but it’s not currently the matter.
So, I installed Thunderbird 3 Alpha pre. I didn’t notice any differences with the 2.0 at the first look, excepted about addons. Indeed, not any did work, but adblock plus. Great thing, but I needed at least the “MinimizeToSystray” addon, in order to let Thunderbird to check my mails regularly. And the MinimizeToSystray addon, on the mozilla addons repository, was available for Thuderbird 2 and previous versions only. So, I tried to find how to tell to Thunderbird 3 to accept it. It’s in install.rdf in the xpi archive. The only thing you have to do is to seek for <em:targetApplication> <!-- Mozilla Thunderbird --> and then replace the <em:maxVersion>2</em:maxVersion> in the <Description> section by <em:maxVersion>3.0a2pre</em:maxVersion>. So the package is there, and it works almost perfectly for me (where “almost” means “since you don’t try to run the old Thunderbird”).
Update : I found a bug in the minimize to tray plugin: when you call thunderbird, it’s started twice, and you have to close one instance.
Update #2 : The new version is out, so I updated the xpi in order to get things working.
Update #3 : As requested by Jimmy (see comments), here is the FF3 minimize to tray plugin.
Good man! Thank you very much for the extension. It’s much better to run it minimized; don’t know why Mozilla doesn’t make it a standard.
How are you finding the Shredder so far? Thanks again!
No problem. I’ll release a new version if a new release of shredder comes out; and every step to achieve the plugin’s update is explained, so everybody can do it.
Hello!
Do you know if it’s possible to make this work with FF3 as well?
I’ve tried to edit the rtf-file, but not got it to work…
This is great info to know.
@Jimmy : Done, check post dude