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================================================Mozilla Links - English EditionIssue # 19 - June 2, 2004================================================The entire Mozilla community is waiting with breathless anticipation aswe wait for news of when Firefox 0.9 will be released. Many wonder howmuch more the project will go behind schedule.The upside? With longer periods for testing and innovation Firefoxshould contain fewer bugs then we would usually expect from a beta. Anew extension manager and theme manager have been drawn up by BenGoodger with such goodies as automatic updating and many bells andwhistles for developers. Look for more about this under News.We'll try to take our minds off of the late release of Firefox bytesting the latest candidates of the Mozilla Suite (available atthe Mozilla releases page at http://mozilla.org/releases/ ).As Mozilla Thunderbird approaches the 1.0 milestone, we want youto stay tuned to what's going on with this powerful e-mail client.This Mozilla Links issue is focused on Mozilla Thunderbird. You willfind an interesting extension developed by Mozilla Foundation's MykMelez that adds syndication capabilities to Thunderbird, as well astips and a poll to better know about your interest in Thunderbird.Also appearing this month is the much awaited DevLinks newsletter. Youcan find the latest information about this developer-orientednewsletter at it's website at http://newsletter.mozdev.org/dev .Thanks for reading and please send any comments tonewsletter-feedback@mozilla.org.Percy Cabello & Robin MonksMozilla Links----------------------------------------------------------------------In this issue:1. BETTER MOZILLA- Forumzilla- Classify Your Email with Message Filters- Disable Sending Progress Window- Change the Advance to Next Unread Message Behavior2. MOZILLA COMMUNITY3. NEWS- Roaming Profiles Coming to Mozilla 1.8- Details of Forthcoming Mozilla Firefox 0.9- Last Month Mozilla Releases4. PROJECTS- Independent Status Reports5. POLL
 
6. CONTACT INFO1. BETTER MOZILLA----------------------------------------------------------------------Featured Extension: Forumzilla(developed by Myk Melez)Forumzilla is an extension to Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird for readingRSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds. It lets you read feedsusing the standard three-pane mail interface you may already befamiliar with.By the time you read this, new Forumzilla 0.5.1 should be available.featuring, on Myk's own words:- A clunky dialog for editing your subscriptions, so there's no needto hack text files in your profile directory anymore- A harder-to-read RDF-based subscriptions file format, to give youmore of a challenge if you decide to hack text files anyway- A link you can click to read any story in your web browser, in caseyou want to read stories the old-fashioned way- A raft of fixes for various feeds and better support forinternational feeds in non-ASCII charsets.Plans for the future include:- Easier methods for subscribing to RSS feeds and manage subscriptions- Better integration with Thunderbird, like new mail notification whenForumzilla receives a new story- Threaded discussion for discussion-oriented feeds- A way to comment on stories for feeds that allow itDownload it from:http://forumzilla.mozdev.orgReport bugs or check before requesting a feature here:http://mozdev.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=ForumzillaTrack Forumzilla development through these mailing lists:- For general discussion:http://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/forumzilla- For announcements:http://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/forumzilla-announce----Tip: Classify Your Email with Message Filters(contributed by Percy Cabello)If you are subscribed to several newsletter like this, or use MozillaThunderbird multi-account capabilities, you may want to automaticallyclassify messages to specific folders.For example, if you want to have all editions of Links delivered to a
 
specific folder, folow these instructions:- Select menu item "Tools" and then "Messagefilters"- Press the "New" button- For "Filter name", enter "Mozilla Links"- Check "Match any of the following"- Select "Sender", "contains" and type "newsletter@mozilla.org"(theemail address issues are sent from.- In "Perform these actions", check "Move tofolder" and choose amailbox folder or press "New folder" to create a new one,i.e"Mozilla Links"- Press "OK"- If you want to sort your Inbox now, select the just created filter("Mozilla Links") and press "Run now" to moveall newsletter emailyou may have received to the "Mozilla Links" folder.----PowerTip: Disable Sending Progress Window(adapted from Mozilla Thunderbird Help site @http://texturizer.net/thunderbird)When you send an e-mail in Mozilla Thunderbird, an informativeprogress window appears. If you find this window annoying orditracting, follow these steps to disable it:- Open user.js file in your profile folder. (For details on findingyour profile folder, visit http://www.gemal.dk/mozilla/profile.html)- Add the following code:// Turn off extra sending windowuser_pref("mailnews.show_send_progress", false);----PowerTip: Change the Advance to Next Unread Message Behavior(adapted from Mozilla Thunderbird Help site @http://texturizer.net/thunderbird)When you click on the "Next" button (or simply press"N") you normallyadvance to the next unread message in the current folder. If there areno unread messages left in a folder, Thunderbird will ask if you wantto advance to the next folder containing unread messages. You canchange this behavior by adding the following code to your user.jsfile in your profile folder (for details on findingyour profile folder, please visithttp://www.gemal.dk/mozilla/profile.html):// This pref controls the "Advance to next unread message"behavior// 0 - Always go to the next folder without prompting// 1 - Ask before going (the default behaviour)// 2 - Never go to the next folder with unread messages
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