New Thunderbird 60.0 - with the 'Photon' interface

[Mike Walsh]

Afternoon, all.

I wasn't even aware this had been released until a couple of days ago:-

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/mozil ... f-features

I can't find any signs this has been accepted into the official mainstream repos yet, so for those of you who like to keep T-Bird up-to-date, here are some .pet & SFS packages for you.

64-bit packages:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

32-bit packages:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Navigate through and help yourselves. These are direct from the Mozilla T-Bird repo, released 6 days ago, on the 6th August. There's a new 'look' (code-named 'Photon'), designed to match more closely with the Quantum browser.....and there's now the option of dark themes, for those of you who like such things.

Since these are from the 'release' schedule, they will auto-update as and when updates become available.

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These appear to work OK with any Pups that are 6-series and later. I've currently got it working in Tahr 6.0.6 (32-bit), Tahr64 6.0.5, Xenial 7.0.8.1 (32-bit), and Xenial64 7.5. I can't yet get this to work with older 5-series Puppies, since it not only wants a newer libdbus (which is not impossible), but it also appears to want libsystemd.....and that pulls in a whole raft of systemd-type requirements & dependencies which I am not happy about 'polluting' older Puppies with.

My Thunderbird packages for 'middle-aged' Pups are quite adequate for these, anyway, since 45.8.0 will update to the current 52.9.1.....and that works extremely well.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111428

Anyway; enjoy.


Mike.

[peebee]

I've had a problem with TB60 opening https:// links in emails...on LxPupSc.

Browser (Chromium) opens but reports that website cannot be opened.

Link copied with right click and pasted directly into the browser works fine.

Terminal messages suggest it may be some kind of security/certificate problem....

Would be interested to know if anybody else sees this?

[peebee]

Search with error=-5992 brings up:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/ ... mw_nXNAAAJ

which suggested that the problem lay with the libnss3.so included in the TB60 build.

This has been confirmed by replacing the libnss3.so in /usr/lib/thunderbird with a link to ../libnss3.so
which in my Slackware based build is provided by:
mozilla-nss-3.37.3-i586-1.txz
from http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/ ... i586-1.txz

With this change https:// links in emails now open correctly in the browser again.....

So this bug is concerned with libnss3.so as included in TB60.

[bigpup]

Thanks for this Mike Walsh!

[Mike Walsh]

@ bigpup:- You're very welcome!

@ peebee:- Thanks for the info, Peter. I don't tend to try & open T-Bird links in the browser, personally; on the odd occasions when I do, I generally use the time-honoured copy'n'paste method you've described.

I have Gnubiff, the e-mail notifier, operational in all Pups, and tend to double-click that to open T-Bird up when Gnubiff shows the incoming headers across the top of the screen.

I'll investigate this, though; see if the same problem occurs with Chrome and Iron. I would guess that the sym-link would need re-creating every time T-Bird updates, however?


Mike.

[Mike Walsh]

Evening, everyone.

Following advice from watchdog, involving the simple addition of a newer version of libdbus (from DPup Wheezy), I have great pleasure in making available .pet & SFS packages of Thunderbird 60 for the 32-bit 5-series Pups.

The newer version of libdbus has been placed in /lib. With some Pups (Precise 571, for example), this will overwrite the existing version, although it shouldn't hurt. In others, libdbus is located in /usr/lib, so the new version leaves this untouched, yet takes precedence in the path, as it's a directory level higher.

Happily, using Wheezy's libdbus seems to obviate the need for libsystemd (thank the Lord for that!)

I have no idea how far back compatibility with existing glibc's will go. I doubt this will work with Racy 5.5, for example....I know Quantum won't, for definite. And this is now using the same 'engine' under the hood, so.....

Anyways, you can find 'em here:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Give them a try.....and see what happens. Feedback will, as always, be appreciated.


Mike.