Let's fill the summer hole/silly season with some content.
Two days ago we switched to Betterbird 153 for productive use. At first, everything looked good, but then we noticed a few regressions:
Our suggested userChrome.css had an issue, the "cute icons" didn't work any more:
That got fixed and an update was published here.
Next we discovered an issue in ThunderHTMLedit. The Mozilla folks had tightened security by disallowing blob:system workers. That change snuck into Thunderbird/Betterbird beta 6. We adjusted the add-on accordingly and published version 3.6.6.
Finally we noticed that after pasting a screenshot into a composition, the caret ended up at the wrong location before the inserted image. Fortunately, someone had already reported the issue and Thunderbird's new star contributor flexed his AI muscle and provided a fix which we're currently evaluating.
Today we received this issue about Thunderbird's tags folder pane mode. This was half-implemented for Thunderbird's Supernova Kaboom version 115, and has been defective ever since the day of first shipping, as a few bugs ([1] [2] [3) show.
And while digging around Bugzilla, we found these pearls:
- Enable the defective tags mode by default: Abandoned by Thunderbird's own "Director, Desktop & Mobile Apps" - good one!
- Underline links: Looks like another Supernova victim. In Betterbird, setting the preference
layout.css.always_underline_linkswill always underline links, also in message content. - And as predicted in the article that states that Thunderbird development is driven by user complaints, those complaints about Thunderbird's poorly implemented account colours have now arrived. And the shonky design decision to not store the colours in preferences has come to bite.