Hello Everyone! The idea of this thread is to allow people to post ideas for add-ons or extensions for Thunderbird AND to allow people to vote on these ideas.
This way Mozilla and any developer/s working here could quickly see which ideas are wanted the most and include them in their work or create something completely new to address the want.
Let's just please follow these simple rules so it's all easy to track...
1. To post an idea, use the "reply" feature, NOT the "add a comment" feature
2. To vote for an idea, use the "add a comment" feature right below the idea you want to vote for, NOT the "reply" feature
Hope this helps build momentum for TB ideas! Thanks!
In the Mozilla 1.9 branch (Firefox 3), Java LiveConnect is not working correctly. When I try to decrypt something using the AES or RSA algorithms from the javax.crypto library, I get an incorrect result. I've had the bug filed for a month along with a simple attachment that tests the problem, but nobody has even confirmed that this problem exists. I have also tried the LiveConnect mailing list and IRC.
This is a big problem for me because it causes a big problem for our plugin users: in Firefox 3, users can't access their local passwords. The workarounds we have come up with are all painful for the user. What do I need to do to get the right person's attention?
I have been to the mozilla.org product pages. I have been to their wiki. I have visited their developer resource pages. I viewed the Thunderbird bugfix discussions on bugzilla.
Only the bugzilla site shows lots of activity with regard to Thunderbird. But (understandably) it's a lot of developers exchanging notes about bugs and fixes - no mortal users, that I could see anyway. What was kinda funny was that the mozilla wiki's mission and roadmap page for Thunderbird was totally blank(!)
So it does seem like THIS is the only space right now where us ordinary users can ask questions and share solutions or ideas in a flexible, unstructured way. Problem is, we're all alone over here and mozilla is NOT hearing any of this.
I have an idea though: the Thunderbird discussion page on bugzilla has the emails of all the developers. If mozilla isn't officially here yet, why don't we invite all those developers to getsatisfaction and to this Thunderbird group? They're the guys who will be building add-ons and extensions for Thunderbird anyway!
I have no idea how this is all going to pan out, but wish me luck!