The first–and possibly only–alpha version of my extension is available for download. You can watch a flash tutorial on basic use and download it here. Please watch the tutorial before using it or you might run into problems. Remember that it is an alpha version, so there might be bugs, Read more…
I have been looking for and fixing bugs, so I am almost ready to release my extension either late today or tomorrow if everything works out as planned. I’m going to be pretty busy today through Saturday, so I might not be able to respond to comments/bugs until then. Mozdev Read more…
After installing FreeBSD and its bootloader on my notebook I found myself unable to boot Vista: \Windows\System32\winload.exe The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt So, I booted from the CD and chose the repair option, but it didn’t find any installation (no, I Read more…
Contact Conversion Rewrite I finally finished rewriting the code to convert contacts as it was overly complicated and some code was duplicated a few times. Along the way I was greeted with an error message I’ve never seen: Error: XML descendants internal method called on incompatible Object The cause: I Read more…
The extra attributes added by gContactSync (ThirdEmail, FourthEmail, (Google)TalkScreenName, YahooScreenName, MSNScreenName, ICQScreenName, JabberScreenName, OtherAddress, OtherNumber, HomeFaxNumber, and Groups) are now easily viewed and should be indistinguishable from regular attributes in the GUI, but the extra properties will not be copied/moved with the card unless you have the patch for 413260 Read more…
I made a new, simple, extension for changing the default file type for saved e-mail messages after BuBB1eS asked about it in #maildev. You can change the type by going to the Preferences (Tools -> Add-ons -> Options under File Type Selector). You should change it to only one of Read more…
I recently decided to support Thunderbird 2 (specifically 2.0.0.14 and above), but only had basic sync support (only the original attributes were synced) until figuring out a few bugs today. As of now, the extension fully supports Thunderbird 2, 3, and 3 with the patch for Bug 413260 applied. The Read more…
As of 2 minutes ago, my extension now appears to work in Thunderbird 2 after some fun with nsIEnumerator and nsISupportsArray. The array documentation didn’t show the AppendElement method which, combined with [notxpcom] and [noscript] caused me a headache until I tried it. It also works in Thunderbird 3 with Read more…
After receiving a comment on a previous blog post, I added some preferences and redesigned my preferences dialog. It now has three tabs: Main, Extended, and Address. The wording and layout of the preferences will probably change, but any feedback is welcome. Main Tab All of the main preferences. Name Read more…
Here’s why I love NoScript – http://noscript.net/ Firefox 3.0 w/ NoScript & AdblockPlus in Gentoo Linux: NOTE: Do not go to the URL in the picture…I should have blurred it out.