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QuickFolders (Tabbed Folders) Version History

160 versions

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Version 2.8 241.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.6a1, Thunderbird 2.0 - 7.*

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Version 2.7.2 240.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.5a1, Thunderbird 2.0 - 6.0

  • Fixed [Bug 24223] - In Postbox, after displaying the calender. the message pane could not be displayed by clicking on the messages tab
  • Added checkbox for option to hide QF toolbar when not needed
  • Avoid TB logging unnecessary errors in Stack Trace during unnecessary FolderLoaded events [Bug 24223]

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Version 2.7.1 238.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.5a1, Thunderbird 2.0 - 5.0

  • Fixed [Bug 24143] - In Linux, the folder disappear and ALT+N shortcuts disabled on upgrade to 2.7 - renamed Current Folder XUL files.
  • Added option to hide QF toolbar when it is not needed (e.g. Calendar view)
  • Fixed: In Postbox could not drag new folders to toolbar (Error: msgFolder.QueryInterface is not a function)
  • Fixed a bug that caused folders to disappear on TB2 on Mac Systems (related to new Current Folder Bar)
  • Right dropmarker did not display correctly when reordering tabs
  • know issues: in Postbox / SeaMonkey the drag mail icon on Current Folder Bar does not work
  • Fixed Bug [24188] - font color in flat style tabs is ignored (tabs without individual color settings)

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Version 2.7 236.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.2a1pre, Thunderbird 2.0 - 5.0

  • Added pastel style
  • Added custom radius
  • First Run tidy ups:replace "QuickFolders.ActiveTab.Style.background-color" with "extensions.quickfolders.style.ActiveTab.background-color" etc.
  • Added Mac Style by Christopher White(CWA-Design + Testing, AG QF integration)
  • Added Next / Previous unread Mail buttons
  • Added checkbox for hiding qf toolbar menu icon (cogwheel)
  • Added dropdown for theming and theming dependant customization
  • Split Native Style into Tabs and Buttons, implemented Selected on Tabs look
  • Options dialog now remembers last panel selected
  • Fixed [Bug 23930] Recent Folders Tab Dropdown stops working after a Message Dropped into it
  • Fixed "expunged n bytes" message for Empty Trash, Empty Junk and Compact Folder
  • It is now possible to add the Current Folder button to the QuickFolder tab (like a drag from the folder tree)
  • Improved behavior when adding an existing QuickFolder (selects category correctly, even if not categorized or display always is selected)
  • Renamed toxic preferences
Known issues
  • the label for goto next / Previous unread Mail is currently not localized (last minute feature!)
  • when multiple messages are selected the Current Folder toolbar is not visible (this works in Postbox though, so multiple messages can be dragged)

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Version 2.6 219.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.3a2, Thunderbird 2.0 - 5.0b2pre

  • Fixed [Bug 24071] removed Current Folder toolbar in message fullscreen mode
  • Bugfix - Category dropdown was invisible in Thunderbird 2.0
  • added option extensions.quickfolders.showToolIcon for hiding tools menu icon
  • Bugfix - on SeaMonkey 2.1 adding folders to the QuickFolders toolbar from the folderpane did not work anymore
  • Style improvements for unstyled tabs, fixed [Bug 24070]
  • Expanded more options for Recent Folder menu (right-click Display Recent Folders in Options window)
  • Repaired "Purge Junk" command in Current Folder Toolbar
  • Fixed [Bug 24073] SeaMonkey does not open Version History in internal browser.

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Version 2.5 216.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.2a1pre, Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.3a4pre

  • Added Tools Menu dropdown button on main toolbar
  • Added Current Folder Toolbar (single message view)
  • Added (configurable) Hotkey for rebuilding folders
  • Added option for disabling recent folders button on QuickFolders toolbar
  • Support for Postbox 2.5beta!
  • Added new folder command: "Delete junk in current folder"
  • Tabs in Options Dialog now have Icons
Bugfixes
  • Fixed issues with badly visible font colors on dark colored Tabs
  • Replaced deprecated popupNode with triggerNode and workaround code for modern Gecko Versions

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Version 2.4 222.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1b2, Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.3a3pre

  • Improved Performance during lengthy mail downloads by not _completely_ rebuilding the visible tabs (now only updating labels and popupmenus of the existing tabs so that counts & "unread style" are up to date
  • added "repair folder" command (mail folder menu)
  • added "folder properties" command (mail folder menu)
  • added toolbar context menu items for rebuilding the tabs and for removing orphaned tabs

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Version 2.3 207.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1a3, Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.3a1pre

  • Update the timestamp of target folder even when moving unread emails - this will make Recent Folders tab more useful.
  • (Postbox) Fixed [Bug 23542] which caused Move (& Copy) Messages to fail in Postbox version > 2.0
  • (Postbox) Fixed display of Version history after upgrade

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Version 2.2 207.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1a3, Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.3a1pre

  • added compatibility with Postbox 2.2
    <br/>known issues: [Bug 23492] using Postbox 2.1 you can not currently move an email to a subfolder via a context menu item. Probably a Postbox bug - we have reported this to the Postbox development team (because it worked in 2.0.2) and are awaiting their answer.
  • Fixed [Bug 23500] Tabs begin counting at "2" when using Recent Folders tab

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Version 2.1 206.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1a3, Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.3a1pre

  • Fixed a problem when dragging to New Folder from find result list (error message: no source folder)
  • Added Recent Folders Tab
  • Added locale sv-SE by Mikael Hiort af Ornaes
  • Fixed Positioning of Folder Menus

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Version 2.0 197.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1a3, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.3a1pre

  • Added drag and drop from folder submenu to add new QF tab
  • New Right-click Tab context menu layout, added folder commands (Mark read, compact, rename, delete, xpunge)
  • Added: Create new folder on drag feature! POP only (as it can crash IMAP accounts), not a feature in TB2.
  • Fixed [Bug 23209] CTRL+Number Shortcut opens new content tabs
  • Fixed [Bug 21317] During drag & drop, the top item in subfolders list is not sorted alphabetically
  • Fixed CTRL+Shift+Number did not move selected messages
  • Compatible with Postbox 2.0.b3
  • Fixed a bug that made reordering quicktabs to the right of their current position fail sometimes
  • TB2 - Fixed - hidden shadows option and made icons option visible again

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Version 1.9.7.3 187.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1a3, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.2a1pre

  • Fixed [Bug 23147] Dragging emails onto a Tab with subfolders does not open popup (1.9.7)
  • Fixed [Bug 23121] Using Japanese characters in tab, "moji-bake" Problem after restart
  • Fixed [Bug 23129] popup menu points with subfolders ignored click (since 1.9.3)
  • Fixed [Bug 23077] Active/Hovered/Drag colors do not override filled style
  • Fixed [Bug 23091] which affected TB2 users again
  • Also includes fix of [Bug 23118] which caused some Thunderbird 2 users not to be able to see their tabs.
  • added GPL 3 license.txt

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Version 1.9.5 183.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1a3, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.1.*

  • [Bug 22902] Added ensureStyleSheetLoaded method for testing
  • Fixed [Bug 23091] this caused parent subfolder to be opened instead of subfolder (if not visible in folder tree)
  • Added deep scanning of folder counts and display for all sub menu items. menus with unread nested sub folders also bold.
  • Fixed missing translation in french options screen
  • Fixed [Bug 23078] the (black) font on the full colored pimped tabs was unreadeable. Hardcoded to White for dark backgrounds.
    (only when using filled style) this overrides the user set font color
  • improved spacing around Category Dropdown

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Version 1.9.3 182.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1a3, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.2a1pre

  • Simplified folder navigation - you will be able to click / drag on expanding popup nodes, similar to the Firefox bookmark menus - no more duplication / right dragging for these. this also resolves Bug 22901
  • Added Version History link to Options / Support Panel
  • Feature Request link on Support Panel (uses Bugzilla)

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Version 1.9.1 176.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.2a1pre

  • Fixed Bug 22585 - Smart Folders view erratically switched to standard folder if clicked folder is in a collapsed tree branch
  • Fixed Bug 21054 - Enabled scrolling long menus while dragging by using code from Robert Gibson's "Scroll Menus On Drag" extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1411
  • Fixed Bug 22695 - now folders can be moved within the folder tree without QuickFolders losing track of them
  • Added code for displaying counts of subfolders (suggested by Pavel)
  • Added code for customizing the "QuickFolders" label (suggested by Pavel)
  • Added an option for sorting subfolders in menus alphabetically
  • On Upgrade of an existing version, now shows version history and donation page.
  • Added locale sr by DakSrbija
  • tightened up namespace pollution issues
  • Added version history jump to options dialog (right-click from version number)

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Version 1.8.8 175.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0.*

  • fixed missing Icons in options and reorder tabs dialogs.
  • Added locale zh-CN by Loviny
  • Added CTRL+Click tab shortcut for opening a new mail tab.

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Version 1.8.7 171.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0.*

  • added tooltiptext with full folder name + server
  • Fixed some layout issues in Options screen (linux case sensitivity, vertical spacing)
  • localized Add-Ons description
  • added hidden option for not changing the folder tree view (extensions.quickfolders.disableFolderSwitching)
  • further reduced namespace pollution
  • moved all picture resources to skin folder and packaged into a jar file to conserve resources (1 file handle instead of 81)

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Version 1.8.5.3 168.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0.*

Changes since the last public version (1.8.3)
  • Bug 22295 fixed:(selecting a QuickFolder closes single Message Tab) => now opens a folder view tab
  • Bug 22144 fixed: Highlighting not updated when switching Tabs in TB3 - now also selects Category if necessary!
  • Bug 22316 fixed: Added Transparency options for toolbar (Personas support!) and tabs (translucently colored, use white for almost complete transparency)
  • fixed: Broken Dutch locale leading to crashes for the users of this language
  • improved: toggling between flat style and native style tabs
  • improved: following external support links in TB3 and SeaMonkey
  • Added: New Menu items Help and Support to main popup menu
  • Improved: tried to resolve as many name space conflicts as possible by using QF_ prefix for global objects
  • added: Shadows option
  • added: ca-AD locale (Catalan) by Jordi Benaiges; Improvements to Russian, Italian and Dutch locales.
  • bundled all locales into locales.jar
  • Fixed crashes in TB2 caused by recent modifications (unnecessary use of let)
  • Removed Shadow & Alpha Blending from TB2 as it doesn't support them.

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Version 1.8.3 161.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0.*

  • IMPORTANT PATCH: fixed code which made branching code fail in Linux - replaced Application Name (Mozilla-Thunderbird) with ID .
  • Fixed (TB3): External Support links in Options dialog are now shown in new content Tabs.
  • More selection improvements for virtual folders (such as search / smart folders)
  • Added special icons for Junk, Drafts, Outbox and Templates

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    Version 1.8.2 154.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0.*

    Fixed (TB3): The folder view did not switch to "Smart Folders" when a Smart Folder was clicked on a QuickFolder.
    Since the last versions (1.7, 1.7.2, 1.8, 1.8.1) have not been reviewed due to a bug on AMO's Submit Extension Pages, this release has quite a huge list of fixes. The main enhancements are focused at the users of Thunderbird 3 and Postbox 1.1.

    See the complete version history on Mozdev.

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    Version 1.6.4 147.0 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0

    QuickFolders Version 1.6.4
    fixed bug 21960 icon for inbox not visible in postbox
    fixed disabled dropping emails to virtual (search) folders

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    Version 1.5pre2 134.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0b4

    Maintenance version - fixes some issues with popup menus that were not removed when dragging emails into them (most apparent when using the feature "Expand Subfolders in Popup Menus")

    Other than that - no new functionality was added.

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    Version 1.5pre1 133.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0b4

    Version 1.5 - Lots of changes & improvements

    AG fixed slowdown of operations that change the number of Total / Unread emails because QF was updated every time - now done asynchronously with a 1000ms timer.
    fixed TB3 folder tree did not scroll to correct position
    added new Option: show subfolders in popup menus
    added whole / striped tab option and backgrounds
    fixed: no more accidental menu popups when customizing toolbars
    improved "Change the order of bookmarks " dialog
    added scrollbars and animation to "change order of bookmarks" dialog
    added Postbox support
    open items tweaks in whole tab coloring (active, hover consistency)
    known issues
    * sometimes the colors do not show up on program startup. Any folder modification (e.g. unread/read) or Category selection will make the color appear
    * popup menus might close delayed
    * Change the order of bookmarks has the wrong height (should be 80% of its parent)
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    Postbox specific
    known issues color submenu still has no colors
    some minor CSS errors

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    Version 1.2 83.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0b3

    * added: Categories are sorted alphabetically
    * added: Compatibility for Tb3.0b3
    * fixed: Quickfolders label floats to right when switched on via options dialog
    * fixed: warning "QuickFolders is not defined" in quickfolders.js

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    Version 1.0.3 69.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0b2

    fixed: tried to fix an issue with TB3 b2 (winxp) with GetMsgFolderFromUri and removed IMAP specific code
    added: language resource for copy folders to clipboard message
    added: colored panels to category screen

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    Version 0.9.13 62.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0b2

    - removed constant debug output of keyboard handler
    - increased width of options window to avoid truncation of italian quickhelp texts
    - added language resources for debug items and icon for copy folder to clipboard
    - added debug section localization

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    Version 0.9.12 60.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0b2

    This release allows you to change the keyboard shortcut modifier to Control in stead of Alt, as the Alt + Number shortcuts are used by the Lightning add-on (configurable in the options screen).

    Leopoldo Saggin has kindly translated QuickFolders to Italian.

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    Version 0.9.10 58.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0b2

    fixed: removed some common global identifiers that might cause incompatibilities with other extensions.

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    Version 0.9.9.2 53.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.*

    See Version History! :)

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    Version 0.9.9 44.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.*

    Fixes breaking problem introduced in 0.9.8 (in combination with another add-on ).

    Adds icons to bookmarks for known folder types. You can enable this in the aptly named "Pimp my tabs!" tab of the options panel.

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