Despite rumors of it’s demise, QuickFile lives on. QuickFile is an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird which enables message filing using only the keyboard interface. QuickFile 0.0.3 (release archive here is a maintenance release that adds support for Thunderbird 0.8 and the new extension update system shared by Thunderbird and Firefox.
So what’s next? Folder [...]
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QuickFile lives
I spoke too soon
Not two hours after announcing QuickFile 0.0.2, Dennis of Heidelburg, Germany, emailed me with a bug report. Of course, when I say bug, I mean “the core functionality doesn’t work.” Oops. For some reason Thunderbird on Linux doesn’t seem to care if you call an int a char. Mac OS X [...]
QuickFile 0.0.2 Now Available
I’ve just updated the QuickFile XPI with a handful of bug fixes and improvements. QuickFile is an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird which enables keyboard-only message filing.
The most notable improvment in this release is the ability to assign the hot-key which begins the filing process. You can find more about QuickFile here [...]
Filing Mail in Thunderbird
I read about Mark Shuttleworth’s Open Source bounties on Mozillazine a couple weeks ago. What was the most interesting to me was the fact that he focuses on three areas I’m really interested in: Python, Mozilla and Education Technology (SchoolTool is what he’s sponsoring; Stoa is what I hack on).
So during some of the [...]









