Category Archives: quickfile

QuickFile lives

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 [...]

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 [...]

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