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just because it's on this page doesn't mean it's in Thunderbird 7
User Visible Changes to Thunderbird 7
Roland is compiling this page in order to compile a list of what has to be documented for Thunderbird 7
Changes
(numbered for convenience only, not in order)
- The new mail notification system will now ignore folders with the following flags: Drafts, Queue, SentMail, Templates and Junk. This is bug 661239 which I believe will land in TB 7
- TB5 hangs after "Do you wish to compact all local and offline folders to save disc space? - [GS], [also please see the compacthang tag in GS] possibly bug 673904 possibly bug 605511 which has a patch for review
and possible landing in TB6 but more likely in TB7 orwhich has landed in TB 7 and TB 8, POSSIBLE WORKAROUND: compact manually option, reducing the size of folders, for unknown reasons, unchecking "Always ask..." doesn't always work, in this case force it off with the mail.purge.ask pref - full details in comment 18 of the bug - Build support to install hyphenation patterns in Thunderbird - [bug 677347 for Thunderbird] and bug 677254 in SeaMonkey and bug 253317 in Firefox
Thunderbird 6 and previous release regressions fixed in TB 7
(not in order, numbered for convenience)
Sort by Receiver or Sender name sorts by email address instead of actual name if showing only display name (Tools|Options|Advanced|Reading & Display "Show only display name for people in my address book" is checked) - UNCONFIRMED REGRESSION [GS1], [GS2], [GS3], I believe this is bug 672022 which hopefully will be fixed in TB7- [LANDED in TB7 and 8]Touchpad/trackpoint scrolling does not work with some versions of Synaptics drivers in Thunderbird 5- fixed in TB7, 8 (as well as Firefox 7) - [bug 538189], REGRESSION
Sources
(in no order, numbered for convenience only)
- Standard8's Thunderbird bugzilla rapid release tracking page
- Thunderbird/Thunderbird6.0SupportIssuesThunderbird 6 Support Issues
- the above are great for Thunderbird changes, but open question: how do we track gecko changes that surface themselves to the user in Thunderbird? Also wouldn't it be great to automate this so that properly tagged bugs and Get Satisfaction topics show up on the page automatically?