Thunderbird 0.8.x, Firefox 1.0x

[Geert Janssens]

First off, Matthias, thank you for your quick response!

I installed both Firefox 10.0 and Thunderbird 0.8 you built.

After a quick glance here are my findings:

- Firefox, works perfectly, everything is as it was with the older version.

- Thunderbird 0.8.x will effectively migrate all mail settings from 
mozilla, PROVIDED THERE IS NO PROFILE CREATED YET. In my case, I had a 
thunderbird 0.6 profile, and hence I was not asked to migrate. This is 
easily solved by removing the .thunderbird directory from your homedir.

I figured this out however, after I did a manual migration based on a 
faq found on the Thunderbird website.

But this is my clumsiness, not Thunderbird's. So far it works flawlessly.

- When I try the menu item "Release Notes" or "Thunderbird Help", I get
an error message:
ERROR: The browser  specified in Preferences -> Preferred Applications
does not exist.

I'm not sure what I should do with this error. There is no Preferences
menu option, and no Preferred Applications option either. So I don't
know where to set this.

For the above menu items, this is not really a big issue. I didn't need 
these options, but the bigger problem is, this error also pops up if I 
click a link in an e-mail message.

Any ideas where to configure this ?

Thank you. Again, I'm very happy with the new versions.


Geert Jan

Matthias Saou wrote:
> Geert Janssens wrote :
> 
> 
>>You have built Thunderbird 0.6 on my request, for which thank you very
>>much! Unfortunatly, this version can't import mail from mozilla yet. So
>>for now, I'm still stuck with the latter, since my mailbox and address
>>book is rather large.
>>
>>So I looked for a source RPM for a more recent version in the fedora 2
>>repository, but I couldn't find one. And building such a program from
>>source is a little bit beyond me.
> 
> 
> There are well tested source packages (and even ppc binaries I think, which
> will probably work on YDL4 as-is) in the current Fedora Core Development
> tree.
> 
> 
>>Could I ask you to provide an updated version of Thunderbird in your
>>Freshrpms collection?
>>
>>Also, Firefox is shipping in version 1.0x now. Would it be possible to
>>update this in your repository?
>>
>>Maybe these applications are already shipping with YDL 4.0, I don't
>>know. I will be running 3.0.1 for a while still.
> 
> 
> I've "back-packaged" ;-) thunderbird 0.8.0 for YDL3, let me know if it
> works. I'm currently rebuilding firefox 0.10.1 in the same way, so expect
> it to appear soon too.
> 
> Matthias
>