Thunderbird 5

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On 07/03/2011 11:59 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> Just FYI, I downloaded Thunderbird 5 from Mozilla.com into ~/bin and
> it's working just fine on F15. Unfortunately, not all Thunderbird
> extensions are supporting the new version.
> 
> 
> 

Since this is the stable release, I have to assume F15 will get this too
shortly no?

Extensions (whether thunderbird, firefox, Gnome or Chrome) can always
break on an update - some are quite diligent about tracking the
development (e.g. enigmail is keeping pace with current development
through its nightly builds) but many lag quite a bit.

Thunderbird has some magic prefs.js variables to force the extensions to
not be turned off even if they are not updated to new version - you can
try those too - I've done that for gcontactsync which is not too active
but very useful.

google for more details but they are the ones that go in
~/.thunderbird/<profile>/prefs.js like

user_pref("extensions.checkCompatibility", false);
user_pref("extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0", false);
etc.

exit tb before editing this file ..



I've made a point of paring all my extensions to a bare minimum - and I
try and monitor the development side as well - I will not use any
extension that is not actively tracking current dev - esp now with the
new short release cycles everyone has switched to.

I don't use firefox - but for google-chrome I've never had any problem
for some reason - and I am using their unstable (i.e. dev) snapshot.

 Gnome - too early to tell - but I'd avoid them completely until there
is evidence which ones will keep up to date and not break your desktop
and be annoying.