5.6.4 - Published 04/07/2021

Improvements

• From now on, the update splash screen will not be displayed automatically anymore. Instead, there will be a message on the QuickFolders button which can be clicked once to read the latest news. There is also a new entry "Show Splash screen" on the QuickFolders tools menu
• [issue 155] Support entering multiple words in a search string to find longer folder names that are composited, such as "Fred.Flintstone" "Invoices June 2020" "Research+Development". These can now be found by entering the starting letters of the words within the folder name, in any order. e.g. "f f" "2020 inv" "Dev Res". The following characters are regarded as word boundaries and don't need to be typed:

  _ . - + & @.

  This can also be combined with the existing parent folder syntax by entering the parent folder start followed by a forward slash /, e.g. enter "A/rev a" to match subfolders like "AMO » AMO-Reviews" "Addons » Accepted Revisions".

  Use the new character > to skip any folder within the path.

  Use the [?] symbol to the right of the search field to display a help panel.

• [issue 163] quickMove: folder created while moving is not displayed on top of recent folders menu.
• [web extension migration] Improved many functions that worked via accessing the "most recent Thunderbird window" and replaced them with event notifications that propagate to every window. This uses the Notification Tool library and the background script (a mechanism of the new API based "mail extensions" model).

  This way all Thunderbird windows (if you work from multiple windows) will be updated correctly when doing one of the following actions. All these now work simultaneously and update in multiple Thunderbird windows:

  • rename a tab
  • move a tab positionto a different position
  • delete a tab or remove it from or add it to a category
  • change the layout of all QuickFolders toolbar elements from the options dialog (themes, colors)
  • rename QuickFolders categories
  • change the theme / buttons of the Current Folder Bar
  • change options of where to display the Current Folder Bar (main window, message tab, single message window)
  • changes to the license when entered / validated
  • unlocking features such as the advanced / tab-specific properties when a license key is entered

Bug Fixes + Miscellaneus

• [issue 167] Fixed: Unreadable colors of QuickFolders toolbar font and Navigation bar icons in Linux.
• [issue 150] Unwanted new line characters "\n" were displayed in some strings in version 5.5.2
• [web extension migration] Licenser code migrated into background script.
• Ongoing work of Rewriting code to use APIs instead of Thunderbird's internal functions see [issue 147] for up to date detail.

5.6.1 - Published 03/07/2021

Release 5.6.1

Improvements

• From now on, the update splash screen will not be displayed automatically anymore. Instead, there will be a message on the QuickFolders button which can be clicked once to read the latest news. There is also a new entry "Show Splash screen" on the QuickFolders tools menu.

  

  

• [issue 155] Support entering multiple words in a search string to find longer folder names that are composited, such as "Fred.Flintstone" "Invoices June 2020" "Research+Development". These can now be found by entering the starting letters of the words within the folder name, in any order. e.g. "f f" "2020 inv" "Dev Res". The following characters are regarded as word boundaries and don't need to be typed: _ . - + & @

  This can also be combined with the existing parent folder syntax by entering the parent folder start followed by a forward slash "/", e.g. enter "A/rev a" to match subfolders like "AMO » AMO-Reviews" "Addons » Accepted Revisions".

  Use the new character ">" to skip any folder within the path.

  Use the [?] symbol to the right of the search field to display a help panel.
  

• [issue 163] quickMove: folder created while moving is not displayed on top of recent folders menu.
• [web extension migration] Improved many functions that worked via accessing the "most recent Thunderbird window" and replaced them with event notifications that propagate to every window. This uses the Notification Tool library and the background script (a mechanism of the new API based "mail extensions" model).

  This way all Thunderbird windows (if you work from multiple windows) will be updated correctly when doing one of the following actions. All these now work simultaneously and update in multiple Thunderbird windows:

  • rename a tab
  • move a tab positionto a different position
  • delete a tab or remove it from or add it to a category
  • change the layout of all QuickFolders toolbar elements from the options dialog (themes, colors)
  • rename QuickFolders categories
  • change the theme / buttons of the Current Folder Bar
  • change options of where to display the Current Folder Bar (main window, message tab, single message window)
  • changes to the license when entered / validated
  • unlocking features such as the advanced / tab-specific properties when a license key is entered

Bug Fixes + Miscellaneus

• [issue 150] Unwanted new line characters "\n" were displayed in some strings in version 5.5.2
• [web extension migration] Licenser code migrated into background script.
• Ongoing work of Rewriting code to use APIs instead of Thunderbird's internal functions see [issue 147] for up to date detail.

4.22 - 30/06/2021 for Thunderbird 68

Release 4.22

This release backports some of the fixes that were also done in the new version for Thunderbird 78. If you want to get the latest features, I highly recommend updating Thunderbird to the current 78 release version.
To support QuickFolders, buy a license or donate to support the project.

Improvements

• [issue 155] Support entering multiple words in a search string to find longer folder names that are composited, such as "Fred.Flintstone" "Invoices June 2020" "Research+Development". These can now be found by entering the starting letters of the words within the folder name, in any order. e.g. "f f" "2020 inv" "Dev Res". The following characters are regarded as word boundaries and don't need to be typed: _ . - + & @

  This can also be combined with the existing parent folder syntax by entering the parent folder start followed by a forward slash "/", e.g. enter "A/rev a" to match subfolders like "AMO » AMO-Reviews" "Addons » Accepted Revisions".

  Use the new character ">" to skip any folder within the path.

• [issue 163] quickMove: folder created while moving is not displayed on top of recent folders menu.
• I am working on making QuickFolders compatible with Thunderbird 91, which is planned for release in summer 2021. There is a lot of rewriting going on in the background in order to replace internal functionality with the new API model. If you still ust THunderbird 68 or older, consider at least switching to Thunderbird 78 to get the latest version of QuickFolders.
• The maximum number of search results in quickMove can now be larger than 25 by editing the following configuration setting: extensions.quickfolders.quickMove.maxResults

5.5.2 - Published 28/04/2021

Release 5.5.2

• In order to maintain full functionality, this Add-on had to be rewritten as a mail extension with experiment API, which will require full permissions on installation. As regards being allowed to do stuff, it is actually not different with any classic Add-on: they always had full access to all functions within Thunderbird. The modern mail extensions will have much more tightly managed permissions - eventually QuickFolders will also be able use this more modern approach - but the APIs for this have to be created and accepted by Mozilla first. This means a lot of ongoing work for the next 12 months forward - please support this with a license or donation:
• You can buy a license here. This is the preferred way of funding all the ongoing work and improvements.
• If you are not ready for a license you can also donate from here

Fixes in 5.5.2

• [issue 148] quickMove: parent folder containing an underscore not suggested as parent if typed from fully. This is a regression caused by changes in [issue 135] which allows for entering parent names by entering text within the string if that starts with an underscore or space - e.g. to find all child folders of "001_Test" you could just type "tes/". The regression caused it not to be suggested when typing "001_tes/" as it only would evaluate the substrings "001" and "Test" as possible parents.
• Fixed: In some locales the character » is replaced with encoded unicode entry \u00BB in Create subfolder menu item
• Fixed: In Thunderbird 89, the options menu item was not displayed in Add-ons Manager.

4.21.4 - 28/04/2021 for Thunderbird 60- 68

Release 4.21.4

This release backports some of the fixes that were also done in the new version for Thunderbird 78. If you want to get the latest features, I highly recommend updating Thunderbird to the current 78 release version.
To support QuickFolders, buy a license or donate to support the project.

Bug Fixes

• [issue 148] quickMove: parent folder containing an underscore not suggested as parent if typed from fully. This is a regression caused by changes in [issue 135] which allows for entering parent names by entering text within the string if that starts with an underscore or space - e.g. to find all child folders of "001_Test" you could just type "tes/". The regression caused it not to be suggested when typing "001_tes/" as it only would evaluate the substrings "001" and "Test" as possible parents.
• I am working on making QuickFolders compatible with Thunderbird 91, which is planned for release in summer 2021. There is a lot of rewriting going on in the background in order to replace internal functionality with the new API model. If you still ust THunderbird 68 or older, consider at least switching to Thunderbird 78 to get the latest version of QuickFolders.

5.5.1 - Published 26/04/2021

Release 5.5.1

• In order to maintain full functionality, this Add-on had to be rewritten as a mail extension with experiment API, which will require full permissions on installation. As regards being allowed to do stuff, it is actually not different with any classic Add-on: they always had full access to all functions within Thunderbird. The modern mail extensions will have much more tightly managed permissions - eventually QuickFolders will also be able use this more modern approach - but the APIs for this have to be created and accepted by Mozilla first. This means a lot of ongoing work for the next 12 months forward - please support this with a license or donation:
• You can buy a license here. This is the preferred way of funding all the ongoing work and improvements.
• If you are not ready for a license you can also donate from here

Fixes in 5.5.1

• Version 5.5.1 Hotfix: [issue 144] Fixed: Mark folders + subfolders read stops at first generation (direct child folder) mails and potentially may have affected parent folders, too.
• Version 5.5.1 - Fixed: The tool menu item "Change the order of tabs" did not update the toolbar after clicking Ok. To make changes visible one had to click "Refrehs Visible tabs"
• 5.5.1: Rewrote the legacy style localization to use the modern method which is a prerequisite for converting the Add-on to a "mail extension" in the future.
• Version 5.5.1: Completed Hungarian, Simplified Chinese and Catalan locales.

Improvements

• [issue 136] Fixed: There were no folder suggestions during quickJump / quickMove while viewing mails in a virtual folder view (such as search results / or after open message in conversation). This was a side effect of changes from [issue 57].
• [issue 135] quickMove / quickJump: When using "/" for parent folders searching for substrings should work better... The Search algorithm now recognizes Underscore _ and Space within folder names so that parent folders with prefixes such as "01_test" can still be found without knowing the number (type "test\subfoldername" to get a match in this example).
• [issue 132] In a single message tab, quickMove used to redisplay the mail after moving it with quickMove. This behavior has now been changed on request to go to the next email instead. If necessary, this new behavior can be changed in via the advanced search settings button in the Single Message Tab box on the QF Pro settings tab.
• [issue 134] Feature Request: Escape key to "Cancel quickMove" completely. Before this change, Cancel would hide the search box but keep the list of mails queued to be moved so that more items could be added later. If necessary, the old behavior can be restored in the Advanced search settings dialog.
• Changed folder tree shortcut from F7 to F9 (consistent with Thunderbird 68). Push F9 to make the folder tree visible or quickly hide it.
• Increased maximum subfolders in a dropdown menu from 100 to 250.
• [issue 140] Fixed: Restriction to current server unexpectedly suggests creating new subfolder.

4.21.3 - 26/04/2021 for Thunderbird 60- 68

Release 4.21.3

This release backports some of the fixes that were also done in the new version for Thunderbird 78. If you want to get the latest features, I highly recommend updating Thunderbird to the current 78 release version.
To support QuickFolders, buy a license or donate to support the project.

Bug Fixes

• [issue 144] Mark folders + subfolders read stops at first generation (direct child folder) mails
• [issue 145] Thunderbird 60 users only - QuickFolders always offers update to 4.21.2 - this is due to a faulty version number in the deprecated file install.rdf (which isn't used by Thunderbird 66 - 91 anymore).
• I am working on making QuickFolders compatible with Thunderbird 91, which is planned for release in summer 2021. There is a lot of rewriting going on in the background in order to replace internal functionality with the new API model. If you still ust THunderbird 68 or older, consider at least switching to Thunderbird 78 to get the latest version of QuickFolders.

5.5 - Published 18/04/2021

Release 5.5

• In order to maintain full functionality, this Add-on had to be rewritten as a mail extension with experiment API, which will require full permissions on installation. As regards being allowed to do stuff, it is actually not different with any classic Add-on: they always had full access to all functions within Thunderbird. The modern mail extensions will have much more tightly managed permissions - eventually QuickFolders will also be able use this more modern approach - but the APIs for this have to be created and accepted by Mozilla first. This means a lot of ongoing work for the next 12 months forward - please support this with a license or donation:
• You can buy a license here. This is the preferred way of funding all the ongoing work and improvements.
• If you are not ready for a license you can also donate from here

Improvements

• [issue 136] Fixed: There were no folder suggestions during quickJump / quickMove while viewing mails in a virtual folder view (such as search results / or after open message in conversation). This was a side effect of changes from [issue 57].
• [issue 135] quickMove / quickJump: When using "/" for parent folders searching for substrings should work better... The Search algorithm now recognizes Underscore _ and Space within folder names so that parent folders with prefixes such as "01_test" can still be found without knowing the number (type "test\subfoldername" to get a match in this example).
• [issue 132] In a single message tab, quickMove used to redisplay the mail after moving it with quickMove. This behavior has now been changed on request to go to the next email instead. If necessary, this new behavior can be changed in via the advanced search settings button in the Single Message Tab box on the QF Pro settings tab.
• [issue 134] Feature Request: Escape key to "Cancel quickMove" completely. Before this change, Cancel would hide the search box but keep the list of mails queued to be moved so that more items could be added later. If necessary, the old behavior can be restored in the Advanced search settings dialog.
• Changed folder tree shortcut from F7 to F9 (consistent with Thunderbird 68). Push F0 to make the folder tree visible or quickly hide it.
• Increased maximum subfolders in a dropdown menu from 100 to 250.
• [issue 140] Fixed: Restriction to current server unexpectedly suggests creating new subfolder.

4.21.2 - 18/04/2021 for Thunderbird 68

Release 4.21.2

This release backports some of the fixes that were also done in the new version for Thunderbird 78. If you want to get the latest features, I highly recommend updating Thunderbird to the current 78 release version.
To support QuickFolders, buy a license or donate to support the project.

Improvements

• [issue 117] Added color picker for text color in tab-specific properties.
• [issue 132] In a single message tab, quickMove used to redisplay the mail after moving it with quickMove. This behavior has now been changed on request to go to the next unread email instead. It can be modified by editing the following configuration settings (the Thunderbird 78 version of QuickFolders has a dedicated User Interface):

  extensions.quickfolders.quickMove.reopenMsgTabAfterMove
  extensions.quickfolders.quickMove.gotoNextUnreadAfterMove

  4.21.2 has some additional fixes to better cover the case of returning to the original tab (folder) after closing the current message tab (with gotoNextUnreadAfterMove=false)

• QuickFolders Settings, now makes sure that correct options tab is opened / remembered

Bug Fixes

• [issue 115] Fixed restoring of config values. Some general / layout settings were not restored properly even when they were saved during backup.

4.21 - 16/04/2021 for Thunderbird 68

Release 4.21

This release backports some of the fixes that were also done in the new version for Thunderbird 78. If you want to get the latest features, I highly recommend updating Thunderbird to the current 78 release version.
To support QuickFolders, buy a license or donate to support the project.

Improvements

• [issue 117] Added color picker for text color in tab-specific properties.
• [issue 132] In a single message tab, quickMove used to redisplay the mail after moving it with quickMove. This behavior has now been changed on request to go to the next unread email instead. It can be modified by editing the following configuration settings (the Thunderbird 78 version of QuickFolders has a dedicated User Interface):

  extensions.quickfolders.quickMove.reopenMsgTabAfterMove
  extensions.quickfolders.quickMove.gotoNextUnreadAfterMove

• QuickFolders Settings, now makes sure that correct options tab is opened / remembered

Bug Fixes

• [issue 115] Fixed restoring of config values. Some general / layout settings were not restored properly even when they were saved during backup.