Comments on: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Released!

By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:08:53 +0000

Liew,

Thanks for your prompt response.

Shows how conditioned we become.

I was looking for a button to lead me to set the relevant Username. I see that in 1.5, |settings| of each account actually shows the smtp usernames as a dropdown box.

So, as it turns out, a hack is not necessary.

Thanks and compliments on the range of contents you have blogged about. The adds crowds the place a bit, but then the server’s gotta be paid for, right?!!

By: LcF

LcF — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:55:26 +0000

@RJ: you mean “Make Old Extensions Work in Firefox 1.5” ? I don’t think the trick works on Thunderbird, because we cannot access Thunderbird’s about:config (I remember there is a extension for that…)

Anyway, you can try to unzip the extension (it is actually a zip file), edit the file andchange the version number. Please back up thunderbird profile before you install the modified extension.

By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:06:52 +0000

You have posted in a separate entry how to make FF1.0 extensions work in FF1.5.

Can we apply the same for Thunderbird extensions that do not work in 1.5??

I just upgraded to TBird 1.5 from TBird 1.0.7 and one the extensions, I find indispensible is the |Show SMTP Usernames| extension the version available does not work wiht 1.5,

Any ideas. Thanks