Add-ons
Reviews for Markdown Here Revival
17 reviews for this add-on
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Intuitive.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very helpful, works great and a continuous development.
I'm excited to get the new "side to side" update
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Happy to again be able to use Markdown Here after updating Thunderbird. The formatted email styling for Revival does not look nearly as good, but I remedied this by going to the old project's Github page, copying its style sheet, and pasting it into Revival's "Primary Styling CSS" in options.
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
While I applaud the initiative of reviving the "Markdown Here" add-on, this doesn't do it for me:
- The author spams github issues for the old project referring to this one, when the scope of the two are completely different: this one only works for Thunderbird while the now abandoned project was targeted towards multiple browser and web based e-mail clients. I consider it dishonest and disruptive to use this way of "marketing" your project when it does not in fact replace the old project aside from a very specific subset of users (Thunderbird). Replying to an issue specific to Office 365 or Gmail on the web with "use markdown here revival instead" is nonsensical, because many people that use it do so because they have to (e.g. enterprise requirements forcing web based e-mail clients).
- Markdown rendering in e-mails look awful compared to "Markdown Here". While the "old" add-on used a pretty subtle "bootstrap" kind of styling for all elements, this add-on uses darker grays for monospaced inline text, and the table styling is horrendous with dark blue headers and dark grey alternating rows. Why this was chosen instead of the nowadays pretty standard "bootstrap" styling I have no idea.
The only reason I'm not giving this one star is because the language syntax highlighting for code is a neat feature that I can use for private e-mails, but since I can't use the addon at all for work it's been a complete waste of time for me following the probably well-meant referral to use this instead.
So in summary:
1. It's in my mind a just barely useful add-on even if you exclusively use Thunderbird due to styling deviations from "Markdown Here" which makes e-mails with tables or inline monospaced text look really bad.
2. It's being marketed as a "Markdown Here" replacement when it's nowhere near functional parity.
I see what you mean about the issue tracker spam. I don't know that individual, and I do not support what he is doing. I've asked him to stop.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I love this addon and am glad I don't have to artificially force myself to use an old version of Thunderbird just to do my markdown conversions.
HOWEVER, I need some help figuring out why a particular behavior is happening--whenever I type the backtick button (to do syntax highlighting of a block of code or monospaced fonts in-line), it puts a weird backtick symbol in FRONT of my cursor, ignores any other usage of the backtick key, and starts screwing up my typing. Google so far has not given me any results that help me, and I have no idea how to fix this. It makes using the tool for my purposes (in IT, sharing code snippets, etc) unusable. Please someone help!
Otherwise, 5 stars for a worthy project and great implementation.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice Add-on.
Dark mode for the TeX would be delightful.
Also clicking the convert button while answering squishes the text from the old messages together weirdly. It should just be left alone.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thank you for the great addon, works as expected.
(Thunderbird 91.5.0 (64-bit), Kubuntu 20.04.4 LTS)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic add-on, thanks for bringing it back!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (3.2.9). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Latest working version of addon 3.2.4. Newer ones don't work. Tested on Thunderbird 78.14.0
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (3.2.8.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thanks for supporting this extension.
With Thunderbird 78.12.0 on Debian amd64, neither 3.2.5 or 3.2.4 allow to make tables.
Is there a workarround or a fix ?
Thx.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Markdown Here 3.2.5 can NOT work with Thunbird 78.12.0 (x64)
However，Markdown Here 3.2.4 works well with Thunbird 78.12.0 (x64)
Hope to FIX it！
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great for supporting Thunderbird latest version instead of the original plugin.
But, on v3.2.4, it changed style CSS setting to use its own one.
Styles for the original ver. is not inherited. Gee...
And, on this ver., syntax highlighting is not working, does it?
Now it looks having several problems on CSS settings.
Unfortunately, unwelcome update...
Yes, syntax highlighting is broken in 3.2.4. Version 3.2.5 will have fixes for that and several other issues.
This is a new addon with its own ID, so it it not able to access the extension storage from the original Markdown Here.
If you modify the CSS to suit your taste in settings, your changes will be kept on future updates. If that's not the case, it's a bug.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This was the one killer addon for Thunderbird (well, together with Muttator). Thanks for bringing it back :)
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (3.1.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Amazing, works well.
However, the "Have full, unrestricted access to Thunderbird, and your computer" seems exaggerated, please request only required permissions and this would be perfect. (edit: see answer).
Also, it keeps asking (edit: not anymore) me "It looks like you wrote this email in Markdown but forgot to make it pretty. Send it anyway?", even when I just did make it pretty.
Edit (reply):
Thanks for the explanation on the permission, fair enough. Also I do not have false positive anymore, I don't know why, but good. So all good, thanks for the work.
I updated the description with the reason for the "unrestricted access" permission. Mail extension APIs are evolving, and my expectation is that the missing API or one that accomplishes the same thing will be added in a future Thunderbird version.
I have not had many false positives with the markdown detection, but not too many. If you have a sample message that incorrectly triggers the notification, please file a bug on the Gitlab page.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice. But it seems that footnotes are not supported, or are they? That is, something like https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax#footnotes
Also, a keyboard shortcut to toggle rendered/raw views would be very appreciable.
Otherwise, nice job, thanks.
Ctrl+Alt+M is the default hotkey. You can change it in the preferences.
Footnotes... not really. You can try this suggestion I copied over from the original Markdown Here: https://gitlab.com/jfx2006/markdown-here-revival/-/wikis/Tips-and-Tricks#footnotes
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thank you very much for the time and effort to resurrect this very useful add-on. Now we can once again send nicely formatted email messages containing code.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (3.1.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thanks a lot for this, I was really missing it :)
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