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Finally, the long awaited Thunderbird 3 is released. This new version is really great, and seem to have fixed some bug i occasionally  encountered during my extension development on Thunderbird 2. In the following, i shall show you those features that i find particularly useful. BTW, do take a careful look on the logo for tb2 and tb3, they are actually DIFFERENT!

1. Extension can now be searched and installed within the extension browser. Users no longer need to access the extension website to download and install an extension which is troublesome.

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Recently, i have been working on an productizing an product of my working company. It involves developing an extension for Thunderbird. During the development process, i have discovered there has been inadequate resources out there for Thunderbird Extension, especially when most developers are interested in working on another Mozilla’s flagship product — FireFox. So, i would like to share my experience on this

To begin, we have to prepare the appropriate directory.

sample.xpi

/install.rdf
/components/
/defaults/
/plugins/
/chrome.manifest
/chrome/icons/default/
/chrome/
/chrome/content
/chrome/skin

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