Problems with Thunderbird 1.0 build

Cian Duffy myob87 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 22 10:57:40 MST 2005


Probably, or unless issus with PPC related optimisations - you get
similar wanky issues from badly optomised builds on Intel, at least
under BeOS.

Cian


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:56:14 -0500, Jim Hart <jhart at bates.edu> wrote:
> I assume that these are configuration issues, since 1.0 on other
> platforms doesn't have these problems.
> 
> Cian Duffy wrote:
> 
> >Well 1.01 is imminent now. It might have a few bug fixes in it...
> >
> >The 1.01 builds are actually up on the FTP for the supported platforms
> >for somewhat closed testing - us on the Irish language team for
> >instance are distributing them...
> >
> >Cian
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:42:21 -0500, Jim Hart <jhart at bates.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have found 5 problems with the Thunderbird PPC build from the code
> >>factory:
> >>
> >>1- arrow keys don't work when editing a message
> >>2- hyperlinks in mail messages don't do anything and I can't find any
> >>place to configure them
> >>3- importing addresses from a text file doesn't work; when one clicks
> >>the Next button after selecting "Text file ...", the button grays out,
> >>but nothing else happens. Have to click Cancel.
> >>4- Fetching mail doesn't keep the mailboxes subscribed for offline
> >>browsing up to date
> >>5- Shortcut keys for copy and paste don't work when editing a message.
> >>
> >>a monkey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>http://www.thecodefactory.org/mozilla/
> >>>
> >>>Up until I found this link, the only way to get my hands on the latest
> >>>version of Firefox and Thunderbird (1.0, right now) was to build them
> >>>from their source. FreshRPMs.net supplies a Yellow Dog Linux 3.0
> >>>binary RPM of an older version of Firefox and Thunderbird, and that
> >>>was about all I could find. Just download thecodefactory's PPC builds
> >>>of the latest Mozilla stuff, and plop 'em in your home directory.
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