Comments on: Much anticipated trunk news

By: The Rumbling Edge :: Thunderbird Release Changelogs

The Rumbling Edge :: Thunderbird Release Changelogs — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:35:06 +0000

[...] What’s new in Trunk … (since 12 August 2005) | HOWTO: Use DOM Inspector to examine Thunderbird’s UI [...]

By: The Rumbling Edge :: Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 1 (not yet) Released

The Rumbling Edge :: Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 1 (not yet) Released — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:07:34 +0000

[...] Some half/fully-finished features in Thunderbird 3 can be found here. [...]

By: Munroe

Munroe — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:44:54 +0000

Xeon -

Icedove is a re-skinned version of Thunderbird. How can there be a performance difference?

By: XEON_JACKAL

XEON_JACKAL — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:41:52 +0000

Awh Why?? I’m an IT Specialist across all OS Systems - Win/Linux/Mac
So what’s holding you back?
Thunderbird is WAY faster and better than MS Outlook / Express, and Mail or Mac / MS Entourage! It’s even better than KMail / Icedove!!!

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:13:04 +0000

I’d say given the attention that the trunk is getting, we won’t see TB3 until Q1 2009.

By: STEPHEN

STEPHEN — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:58:39 +0000

OKAY, WHEN WILL “THUNDERBIRD” (3) BE RELEASED-OUT FO REAL?

By: James Napolitano

James Napolitano — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:23:35 +0000

There’s an issue with the queries you used; often developers don’t bother setting the target milestone. If you remove that requirement from the search, you get over 600 fixed bugs. I’d also remove ‘footprint’ from the list of excluded keywords; many refactoring bugs use that.

There’s a lot of architecture work that’s going on to convert the mail code to use frozen linkages, which will go a long way to enabling Thunderbird to run on top of XULRunner.

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Architecture_Cleanup

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377319
Convert mailnews to frozen linkages (tracking bug).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379070 Remove nsXPIDLCString and nsXPIDLString from mailnews (looks mostly done).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395701
mailnews should use nsStringGlue and other Glue code (WIP).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379431
Remove xpcom_obsolete from mailnews and mail (done).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394167
Remove |nsISupportsArray| usage in mailnews (WIP).

There’s also been some good work cleaning up the address book code: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287832
Clean up nsDirPrefs.cpp (done).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86405
Make LDAP addressbooks editable (WIP).