ConfirmFolderMove Thunderbird Extension - thursday 2006-03-02 2253 last modified 2006-03-02 2259
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I was watching a major memory leak in Thunderbird 1.5RC2 hog my system (along with the major memory leak in Firefox 1.5 that jogged up to 1.5GB of virtual memory in about a day). So I upgraded, forgetting I'd hacked around with the codebase to introduce some folder move confirmation.

Instead of hacked up code, now it's an extension. If you want to test it out, download it from me; otherwise, wait until it's released from the Mozilla extension site so you can get updates. I don't anticipate doing updates except when new releases of TB are made; I have to override the built-in messengerdnd.js file, so any changes to it will necessitate re-hacking it with every release. I'd rather they just built this into the TB codebase instead...

Development note based on earlier frustrations: when passing a PRUnichar string to bundle.getFormattedString in XUL, use %S instead of %s (UTF-8 string). I suppose there's a great reason for that somewhere.

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ConfirmFolderMove Listed

The ConfirmFolderMove extension for Thunderbird is now listed on addons.mozilla.org (or will be real soon now). You should probably manage your installs from there instead of from ryanlee.org since you get Update Spiffiness from them and not from me. ...

Ryan's Journal on March 13, 2006 05:38 PM [trackback]