The Rumbling Edge

Changelog for previous release (Miramar 3.3 Alpha 2) | Changelogs for other Thunderbird releases

Released on 15 Mar 11, and this changelog was last updated on 24 Mar 11.

Miramar 3.3 Alpha 3 has been released. Release notes are available.

Changes in Miramar 3.3 Alpha 3 (99)

Thunderbird-specific: (52)

• Fixed: 237376 - Put ‘reply to newsgroup’ on top
• Fixed: 243631 - Availability to show the name out of the addressbook for a display name
• Fixed: 437657 - increase autocompact threshold “mail.purge_threshhold”
• Fixed: 468808 - Tabs can’t be reordered
• Fixed: 516777 - Enable favicons on content tabs.
• Fixed: 538452 - Tracking bug for getting MozMill running on production tinderboxes
• Fixed: 542998 - Need option to disable Archiving completely
• Fixed: 544983 - select thread (ctrl+shift+A) not working in cross folder virtual/saved searched/unified folders
• Fixed: 549045 - Fix Account Wizard UI
• Fixed: 577041 - The number of messages in a group appears in the Tag column.
• Fixed: 590700 - Test failures in test-display-names.js
• Fixed: 599331 - Have a nice icon for the Thunderbird Add-on Manager tab
• Fixed: 612884 - Doesn’t open Add-ons Manager tab when click [Manage Add-ons...]button in Options dialog
• Fixed: 614215 - Add some color to the sidebar under Aero
• Fixed: 620781 - Add dictionary switching in the compose window context menu
• Fixed: 623346 - Show Total File Size of all attachments
• Fixed: 624092 - Error in Thunderbird’s javascript code – use of undefined object (SubscribeOnLoad() in chrome://messenger/content/subscribe.js)
• Fixed: 626019 - No update.png in aero/messenger/icons/
• Fixed: 626076 - Add spellcheck UI in the context menu, à la Firefox, for all HTML Textareas
• Fixed: 626735 - Set opacity only on qfb-tags .toolbarbutton-icon
• Fixed: 626742 - Give editMessageButton button appearance
• Fixed: 627810 - about:support account sort order reversed
• Fixed: 627811 - Port bug 624970 (display DirectWrite version in about:support)
• Fixed: 628204 - Finish off about:support tests
• Fixed: 628586 - steelIApplication needs new iid due to changes in parent interface extIApplication
• Fixed: 628768 - mark as read toggle broken
• Fixed: 629247 - Remove 4MB limit for memory-cache and base it on physical memory size instead
• Fixed: 629686 - Port bug 620837 – Modify blocklist pingCount parameter to track pingCount for profile and for version
• Fixed: 630484 - Properly support plural forms in advance search dialog status message
• Fixed: 630857 - Port some makefile changes/updates to Thunderbird’s installer and locale Makefiles
• Fixed: 630963 - about:support doesn’t work on some Linux distributions
• Fixed: 631797 - tabmail.css should use moz-icon://stock/gtk-file instead of folder-item.png
• Fixed: 631916 - Make about:support code use MailServices
• Fixed: 632390 - Message reading and context menu can get broken when opening content tabs
• Fixed: 632535 - Port bug 617028 (expose graphics failures in about:support) to Thunderbird
• Fixed: 633492 - remove useless test-window-helpers.js dump statements
• Fixed: 633498 - Provide structured context information about mozmill failures
• Fixed: 633620 - make nsIMsgDBView cell text scriptable
• Fixed: 634272 - Missing tab close button on Mac
• Fixed: 634620 - In Compose Window: Renaming an attached file removes its displayed file size
• Fixed: 634907 - need way for mozmill tests to start up without accounts
• Fixed: 635471 - Change discoverURL to /%LOCALE%/%APP%/discovery/pane/%VERSION%/%OS%
• Fixed: 635688 - Update openAddonsMgr to take a add-on pane URI as argument and correctly open the add-ons Manager pane
• Fixed: 638166 - :active icons in prefwindow has wrong style
• Fixed: 638605 - Disable about:rights in mozmill tests
• Fixed: 638607 - Remove obsolete cmd_showComposeToolbar
• Fixed: 638801 - Add an extra onLoad argument to contentTab and chromeTab arguments
• Fixed: 638980 - Status bar should only have progress meter showing whilst loading stuff
• Fixed: 639462 - “make install” doesn’t install the SDK
• Fixed: 639578 - Reorder context menu items to be consistent with Firefox’s
• Fixed: 640714 - Add dictionaries from the mail context menu should open a content tab when possible
• Fixed: 641331 - [autoconfig] Remove duplicate string definition in accountCreation.properties

MailNews Core: (47)

• Fixed: 39562 - hostinfo.dat “<name>,,x,y,z” needs to be fixed
• Fixed: 293100 - ComposeMessage logic is perf nightmare
• Fixed: 343332 - thread-safety assertion and crash with nsWeakRefPtr and nsLDAPConnection
• Fixed: 466613 - Remove nsStringArray from mailnews
• Fixed: 486996 - xpcshell-tests: test_compose/unit/test_sendMessageLater2.js hangs often
• Fixed: 498321 - test_nntpPassword.js, test_nntpPassword2.js and test_server.js all leak (including RDF data sources)
• Fixed: 505437 - Reftest failures when run against Thunderbird.
• Fixed: 533083 - POP biff on startup: if we have no password, we say hello to server and then quit
• Fixed: 544939 - ldap connections not close properly, LDAP/SSL triggers internal failure error message.
• Fixed: 574441 - Keep sent folder offline store up to date
• Fixed: 588006 - Renaming folders doesn’t work, folder appears empty until restart
• Fixed: 609992 - Attachment header <fieldset> in the wrong spot for inline text attachments
• Fixed: 615675 - Allow plugins to work by default in non-email situations
• Fixed: 624337 - Forward icon is not shown when email is forwarded inline by filter
• Fixed: 624419 - Potential off-by-one error in MimeHeaders_build_heads_list()
• Fixed: 624651 - memory leak in MimeMultipartRelated_output_child_p
• Fixed: 625506 - crash [@ nsImapCacheStreamListener::OnStartRequest] (Mac&linux), [@ nsImapCacheStreamListener::OnStartRequest(nsIRequest*, nsISupports*)] (windows)
• Fixed: 626310 - Port |Bug 600435 – XULRunner universal for i386/x64_64 fails to unify nspr-config| to comm-central
• Fixed: 626954 - memory leak in MimeStartParamExists()
• Fixed: 627397 - crash [@ nsMsgHdr::ReparentInThread(nsIMsgThread*)]
• Fixed: 627538 - crash [@ nsMsgSearchDBView::FetchLocation(int, nsAString_internal&)]
• Fixed: 627999 - Some “-compose” command line options won’t work if they are the first or only argument
• Fixed: 628093 - xpcshell-tests: test_compose/unit/test_sendMessageFile.js hangs often
• Fixed: 628094 - Remove nsVoidArray from mailnews/db/msgdb
• Fixed: 628218 - memory leak in MimeMultipartRelated_parse_eof()
• Fixed: 628276 - nsIAbCollection and nsIAbDirectory needs new iid due to changes in parent interface nsIAbItem
• Fixed: 628389 - delete notification not getting sent when doing an offline fcc to the sent folder w/ pseudo hdr.
• Fixed: 628647 - crash [@ nsImapMailFolder::AddMoveResultPseudoKey(unsigned int)], [@ nsImapMailFolder::AddMoveResultPseudoKey] (Mac)
• Fixed: 628716 - Remove m_numReferences from nsMsgHdr
• Fixed: 629462 - Add a MailServices module
• Fixed: 629479 - Remove various nsVoidArray instances and headers
• Fixed: 629884 - [clang]: Can’t build nsMsgAppleCodes.h with Clang because of pragma error
• Fixed: 630011 - Make sure messages with MimeUnknown parts don’t break recursive MimeMessage size computations
• Fixed: 630060 - Crash in [@ MimeMultipartRelated_finalize]
• Fixed: 630664 - Port Bug 628303 – HOST_LDFLAGS is ignored to comm-central
• Fixed: 630816 - Newly created LDAP address books don’t use to use the SSL port if specified
• Fixed: 631498 - mimemsg.cpp uses sscanf to clobber half of a pointer on 64-bit architectures, failing free asserts
• Fixed: 631993 - Remove obsolete static variable that seems to do one-off leaks in unit tests, and some other obsolete member vars in nsImapMailFolder
• Fixed: 632494 - Unify test code to create incoming servers
• Fixed: 632504 - crash on shutdown [@ nsCharTraits<unsigned short>::length(unsigned short const*)] – [@ nsMsgShutdownService::Observe]
• Fixed: 632966 - cross folder threading can use nsCStringHashKey
• Fixed: 633131 - Remove nsVoidArray from nsMsgCopyService
• Fixed: 633150 - Change nsILDAPURL::setAttributes to take a string rather than an array
• Fixed: 633345 - Add the SMTP service to MailServices
• Fixed: 633346 - Add an xpcshell test function to create an outgoing server
• Fixed: 636133 - Can’t display a message I just sent with Thunderbird Conversations (
• Fixed: 636285 - add support for IMAP Move RFC

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