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just because it's on this page doesn't mean it's in Thunderbird 9

Test Pilot

special category! Test Pilot will be an add-on for TB 8 beta at some point (i.e. sometime during the beta cycle) and an "integrated add-on" for TB9 - [landed in TB9 in bug 679513]

User Visible Changes to Thunderbird 9

Roland is compiling this page in order to compile a list of what has to be documented for Thunderbird 9

Changes

(numbered for convenience only, not in order)

POSSIBLE CHANGE: Composer: Outdent of List does not work properly [bug 290026], [bug 291780], trying to land in mozilla9 aka firefox 9 which doesn't mean it will land in TB9
escape issues with mailbox urls in the compose window - [bug 224733]
Opt-in UI for telemetry (toolkit.telemetry.enabled ) - [bug 682176]
Compose, message and address book windows should support personas - [bug 670639]
Better Keyboard handling for attachments (implement Tab and Ctrl+Tab stop for composition's attachment pane) - [bug 473901]
Better import for vCards from webpages and the desktop - [bug 646638]
New Mac Keyboard shortcut for Get Messages / Get All New Messages - Command Y / Command Shift Y and F5 like Windows - [bug 655989]
WINDOWS - Quota Display in status bar is more readable - [bug 385175]

Thunderbird 8 and previous release regressions fixed in TB 9

~~Mac OS X ONLY: Can't open new windows if any windows are on a secondary monitor & bottom of secondary is NOT TOP aligned with primary - [bug 644733],[GS]~~ WORKAROUND: align top of secondary with top of bottom monitor - fixed in FF 9,should therefore be fixed in TB 9
~~blanks at the end of email-address in Settings prevents displaying of inline images - [bug 68542],~~ fixed in TB9
~~Plaintext part not sent for multipart alternatve send option - instead 2 HTML copies are sent - [bug 688991]~~ REGRESSION
~~Thunderbird 5 always print background colour - Known REGRESSION, see bug 674211 is thunderbird bug~~ GS,[bug 652914 is gecko core bug] - I believe this will land in FF9 and TB9
~~New entry in address book not saved when Short Date format to: "dddd dd MMM" - [bug 677884] e.g. when using Hebrew calendar instead of Greogrian Calendar~~ - fix landed in TB9, bug present since at least TB5

Sources

(in no order, numbered for convenience only)

Thunderbird/Thunderbird8.0SupportIssuesThunderbird 8 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?