Version 0.5.4 Beta 5: Thunderbird 115 compatibility

Changes since v0.5.3.2:

Features

• #160 Now using the progress animation of the status bar while working.

Compatibility

• Now supporting Thunderbird 115. There are likely some remaining issues - please report them!
• The toolbar menubutton is currently not supported with TB 115.

Improvements

• #160, #161, #162 Now using the percentage bars and the "meteors" animation to indicate progress.

Bug Fixes

• #154 Now properly updating the status bar both when building the dupe sets and when refining them (e.g. with the body).
• #177 When aborting the dupe search with an alert message, now clearing the status bar.

Noteworthy internal changes

• #180 Now using the WindowListener API v1.62

0.5.3.2: Code modernization, dark mode support, status bar updates

Changes since v0.5.2.2:

Compatibility

• Minimum supported Thunderbird version is now 91.

Other user-facing changes

• Proper support of the dupe review dialog for dark mode
• Bug fix: Now properly respecting the default action chosen in the add-on preferences dialog
• Status bar updates now work again! You will get updates while the dupes are searched for (but - not while they are removed, see issue #105)
• More status bar updates during actual removal of dupes: One status bar update for each folder being worked on
• No longer throwing an uncaught exception due to redundant loading of customElement.js
• Now properly handling the case of some of the dupes being in the target folder (i.e. target folder being one of the search folders)
• Changed "Size" label to "Size (Headers & Body)"

Internal

• using .code instead of the deprecated .keyCode
• No longer using NsSyncStreamListener for getting message bodies
• Defining global RemoveDupes object members separately to improve readability
• Using the XPCOMUtils module to get services
• Corrected some variable name typos in removedupes.js
• Removed all of the ifdef-DEBUG lines from the code
• Got rid of tabs had snuck into some .js files
• A bunch of refactoring
• Linted the code with ESlint and now following all those rules (with some specific exceptions in the ESLint config file, which is now part of the extension)
• We now have a package.json file for the extension (which makes it easier for some IDEs to open it)
• Service references are now const + out of container objects with single members.
• Accommodating the "globalization" of the general Services module
• Less/no references to services we don't actually use
• Checkmark images are now inline SVGs (for light & dark mode)

v0.5.2.2: Thunderbird 91 (and 102) support

Changes since v0.5.1:

Compatibility - Thunderbird 91 (and 102)

• #56: No longer failing to recurse subfolders in dupe search with TB 86 and later
• #55: No longer failing when trying to move messages to Trash with TB 91
• Other minor internal changes required for TB 91 compatibility
• Works with TB 102 as well

Other user-facing changes

• #67 Support for common-account Trash folder as the default move target (which is the default action for dupes)
• Review dialog title change.
• Bug fix: Email address stripping no longer fails when some characters need to be escaped.
• #119 Satisfying ATN requirement of setting an explicit maximum compatible version (103.0)

Internal

• #108 : Now failing more gracefully when some folders' messages cannot be iterated, rather than "crashing" the entire dupe search
• #65 : Dropped our own custom preference wrapper code in favor of using Preferences.jsm
• Dropped some internal checks relevant for unsupported, older TB versions.
• #66 : Discarded our custom isEmpty() implementation in favor of the same function from ObjectUtils.jsm
• Updated the extension loader ("Window Listener") API to v1.5.6.
• Build script changes.
• Dropped the string2hex facility - we no longer use it
• Removed any remaining traces of the "(alternative)" qualifier after the extension name.
• Removed mentions of Eyal's old email address in favor of his current one at GMX.
• Whitespace, indentation changes

v0.5.1b2

Version 0.5.1b2

Version 0.5

• Dropped the "(Alternate)" suffix from the name. From now on this extension will be known as "Remove Duplicate Messages".
• Logic change: Missing values are now assumed to have (unknown) unique values, so they are not considered to be duplicates of other missing values in the same field ; a (hidden) preference controls this behavior.
• Compatibility: Compatible with Thunderbird 68, 78 and probably all beta versions in-between.
• Compatibility: No longer compatible with Seamonkey 1.x, Toolkitized Seamonkey (2.x)
• Compatibility: No longer compatible with Thunderbird 30...67.
• Fix: Status flag comparison criteria was present only on the menubutton but not in the preferences dialog - now it appears in both.

Internal changes (no user visibility):

• No longer using JARs
• Reworked the directory structure
• Dropped some files only in use by previous TB versions (but not all files for now)
• Using John Bieling's "WindowListener" from here, as an extension loader; see this guide regarding how to use it.
• Now using service getters provided by Services.jsm and MailServices.jsm whenever possible.
• Now logging using a plain and simple console.log()/console.error().
• Fix: Corrected the default value of the hidden preference for allowing MD5 substitutes for Message ID (no effect on behavior).

v0.4.1

• Compatibility: After a lot of work, the extension is now compatible Thunderbird versions up to 68.x
• Locales: Filled in missing additional string (partly with English though).
• Fix: Review dialog dupe tree status bar no longer fails to appear with certain versions of Thunderbird.
• Fix: The review dialog check-mark for messages selected for keeping will no longer disappear under certain circumstances.

v0.4

Do not use this release of the extension - it has issues which were resolved in release v0.4.1.

v0.3.17b1

Note: This was only ever a beta.

• Compatiblity: Minor tweaks which may (or may not) be required for Thunderbird v60.x compatibility
• Fix: Instead of using an SVG file as part of the extension, embedding the SVG in the CSS file; this ensure the image is always visible and Thunderbird doesn't make it disappear.

v0.3.16

• When you abort message deletion (in permanent deletion mode), the review dialog will not disppear and you can continue considering the dupes.
• Compatibility: Now working with the last beta version in each of the 53.x - 59.x main versions (upto 59.0b2)
• Fix: This version has a regression with versions up to 52 (ignoring 53-58), where the "checked" and "unchecked" images for dupe message tree rows are missing/transparent.

v0.3.15

• Compatiblity: Thunderbird v56 dropped support for the way we were formatting dates; we not account for that
• Compatiblity: Thunderbird v59 changed the name of the date formatting service
• Compatiblity: Thunderbird 57 dropped support for what is now a "legacy" version of the generator mechanism, in favor of the ECMAScript ES 6 standardized mechanism for generators; now using that.
• Fix/Compatiblity: Newer versions of Thunderbird don't accept a JS version number in the script type field in XUL files, so -we've dropped them
• Fix: Shortcut key clash with the Lightning (calender) extension