Functionality:
- Fixed: 276716 – Virtual Folder/Saved Search Folder does not cache the message list for subsequent accesses to the folder
- Fixed: 346378 – Renaming a folder for the 2nd time, causes us to lose the favorite folder flag
Installer:
- Fixed: 329263 – properties menu item for Win XP Start menu is not localizable
Spelling checker:
- Fixed: 234936 – Don’t inline spell check URLs
- Fixed: 339123 – Words that should or need to be added to the dictionary
- Fixed: 339127 – Provide a way for a web page to enable/disable spell checking on a given field
- Fixed: 341420 – Speed up inline spellchecker
- Fixed: 344172 – Spellchecker doesn’t display suggestion list for misspelled words and doesn’t underline them if Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian Spell dictionary is installed
- Fixed: 345048 – Scrolling with spellchecked words visible is slower
- Fixed: 345050 – Turning off spellchecking is very slow when there are many misspellings.
- Fixed: 345112 – Make the inline spellchecker work incrementally
- Fixed: 345751 – Use the new sorted range feature in the selection
- Fixed: 346185 – fixing one of two misspelled words in a line makes spellcheck underline disappear on both
- Fixed: 346200 – Spell checker doesn’t like curly quotes and other non-ASCII punctuation
UI improvements:
- Fixed: 317348 – new mail indicated on folder when there is no new mail
- Fixed: 339865 – Virtual Folders not showing up until you cycle the folder view
- Fixed: 340434 – “Grouped By Sort” (for status) has no Group for “Unread” messages – Both Unread AND read are shown as “Read”
- Fixed: 341173 – Need hotkeys to assign label/tag to message – shortcut 0-5
- Fixed: 347297 – saved search folder over a single folder not showing up in the “recent folders” folder view
- Fixed: 347464 – compose window toolbar on the mac is missing a spring
XPToolkit:
- Fixed: 334675 – Notify user on async IO errors
Miscellaneous fix:
- Fixed: 346302 – Yet another RFC 2231 violation (0x2a is not escaped)
Mac-specific:
- Fixed: 271315 – tbird on mac should use command-n as new message shortcut
Outstanding bugs:
- Since 16 Dec 03: 228675 – Limit growth of junk token store
- Since 12 May 04: 243430 – Improving the chi-square spam detection method
- Since 17 Mar 05: 286655 – deleting or detaching attachment from IMAP message duplicates the message temporarily
- Since 29 Oct 05: 314297 – deleting one attachment from a locally stored message deletes multiple attachments
- Since 24 Jan 06: 324606 – Thunderbird hangs on Return Receipt Notification on some SPAM-Mails on IMAP-Accounts
- Since 14 Mar 06: 330507 – Crash when clearing a quick search during a LDAP search.
- Since 28 Apr 06: 335823 – Universal binaries not yet out for 1.8.x branch and trunk
- Since 24 May 06: 339115 – save as file stopped working on IMAP
- Since 07 Jul 06: 343901 – cannot install dictionaries in thunderbird since bug 216382 landed
- Since 12 Jul 06: 344433 – Thunderbird needs to use a new set of APIs to claim defaults in windows Vista
- Since 25 Jul 06: 345887 – Thunderbird Theme Update for Qute
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