5.9.1 - Published 05/04/2022

Release 5.9.1
Please note that QuickFolders is compatible with the latest version of Thunderbird (91.7) - if you get a message that says otherwise after updating from earlier versions (e.g. Tb78) or if QuickFolders cannot be enabled with the blue slider, simply remove it and reinstall it via "Find more Add-ons" search box on the Extensions tab of Add-ons Manager.

To support QuickFolders, please buy a QuickFolders Pro license here.
Or get the new cheaper QuickFolders Standard License. This is the preferred way of funding all the ongoing work and improvements.

Read the new comparison chart to see which functions you get depending on your license.

You can also donate from here.

Improvments

Simplified recent folders menu behavior for keyboard navigation.

[issue 254] The new "=" key of quickMove/quickJump shows an arrow to visit child folders which means that the folder itself cannot be opened with keyboard only (by pressing the enter key), which forced the user to use the mouse, impeding the workflow.

I have decided to instead not show subfolders for these recent folders as it doesn't add much value for what essentially should be a repeat operation. I have also extended this to the other recent folders menus (e.g. on the recent folders tab).

The old behavior (of showing subfolders) can still be restores by setting the config setting extensions.quickfolders.recentfolders.subfolders = true

[issue 252] Fixed: Tabs with invalid folder address can break search results. This can happen if you exclude accounts from the search after recreating a profile with different spelling.

[issue 255] Fixed: CTRL Right-clicking on the active folder can create multiple instances of the folder commands submenu.

5.9 - Published 30/03/2022

Release 5.9
Please note that QuickFolders is compatible with the latest version of Thunderbird (91.7) - if you get a message that says otherwise after updating from earlier versions (e.g. Tb78) or if QuickFolders cannot be enabled with the blue slider, simply remove it and reinstall it via "Find more Add-ons" search box on the Extensions tab of Add-ons Manager.

To support QuickFolders, please buy a QuickFolders Pro license here.
Or get the new cheaper QuickFolders Standard License. This is the preferred way of funding all the ongoing work and improvements.

Read the new comparison chart to see which functions you get depending on your license.

You can also donate from here.

Improvements

• [issue 241] using quickJump / quickMove via shortcut - hitting Enter will now always select the last successful location (even when the name is ambiguous) and not the top item of the menu. To use the first item of the menu using Enter the menu hast to be visible - either by starting to type or pressing arrow-down.
• [issue 242] Use `=` key for folders from recent quickMove / quickJump operations

  When using the quickMove or quickJump search box you can now access folders of its previous jump / move operations by typing "=" as the first character.

• [issue 236] Convert options dialog to pure HTML. Amon other things, this fixes the color pickers that have stopped working on Mac. Long term, all Dialogs and User Interfaces need to be converted to HTML to become future proof and pure API based. There are still things that cannot be done with HTML right now (such as folder dropdowns that aren't cut off at the toolbar borders), so this is an ongoing effort for the predictable future.

Bug Fixes

• [issue 232] Fixed: When Adding a category to a tab, another category may be replaced
• [issue 235] Fixed: quickJump may fail if "Compact mode" in folder tree is enabled.
• [issue 220] Fixed an issue with license validation (alias identity support).
• Fixed "change order" dialog.

5.8.3 - Published 3/Nov/2021

Please note that QuickFolders is compatible with the latest version of Thunderbird (91.2) - if you get a message that says otherwise after updating from earlier versions (Tb68 or Tb78) or if QuickFolders cannot be enabled with the blue slider, simply remove it and reinstall it via "Find more Add-ons" search box on the Extensions tab of Add-ons Manager.

To support QuickFolders, please buy a QuickFolders Pro license here.
Or get the new cheaper QuickFolders Standard License. This is the preferred way of funding all the ongoing work and improvements.

Read the new comparison chart to see which functions you get depending on your license.

You can also donate from here.

Maintenance Release 5.8.3

• Fixed in page links for users with licenses! Before licensed users were directed to the top of a page instead of the correct location (such as the feature comparison list or current version info)
• Improved speed of license validator for Thunderbird 91.2 and later.
• Improved readability for menu items on (license-) restricted tabs.

Maintenance Release 5.8.2

• [issue 5] Long folders menus now scroll when dragging mails to screen edge.

Improvements (5.8.1)

• [issue 205] When clicking "get Messages" from any tab, QuickFolders used to also jump into the folder. This behavior is actually not desired, as you may have filter rules defined which remove mail from the Inbox so jumping into the Inbox is not useful when new mail is downloaded.
• [issue 191] Support large icon in QuickFolders toolbar buttons for high resolution displays.

Bug Fixes + Miscellaneus (5.8.1)

• [issue 211] Fixed: move Folders in quickMove fails in Thunderbird 91. You can now again drag (multiple) folders from the tree to the quickMove button in order to relocate them. Or use the Shortcut Shift+M if you have a QuickFolders Pro license.
• [issue 203] Fixed: When the quickFilters Add-on activates its assistant, all icons on left to the tabs on the QuickFolders toolbar turned white.
• [issue 209] Fixed: Tabs in Options Dialog become illegible in Thunderbird 91 when using dark themes with bright text.
• Fixed: In Thunderbird 91, background area behind current folder toolbar does not show correct background color from lightweight theme, even when lightweight support is enabled.
• Fixed: The History Tab was not displayed anymore when updating QuickFolders.

Known unresolved issues - W.I.P.

• [issue 204] WIP - Thunderbird 91: Background of QuickFolders toolbar doesn't support some themes when set to transparent.
• [issue 208] Upgrade from TB 78 to 91.1.2 sometimes leads to invalid / "orphaned" tabs. For the moment, you should be able to resolve these by clicking a tab with the "broom" / invalid icon or by running the tool command "Find Orphaned tabs".

  Should this not give the desired results, then you can export your tabs via the license tab or on the Advanced tab using the [Copy Tabs] button and send me the file so I can help you fix this.

5.8.2 - Published 21/Oct/2021

Release 5.8.2
Please note that QuickFolders is compatible with the latest version of Thunderbird (91.2) - if you get a message that says otherwise after updating from earlier versions (Tb68 or Tb78) or if QuickFolders cannot be enabled with the blue slider, simply remove it and reinstall it via "Find more Add-ons" search box on the Extensions tab of Add-ons Manager.

Maintenance Release 5.8.2

• [issue 5] Long folders menus now scroll when dragging mails to screen edge.

Improvements (5.8.1)

• [issue 205] When clicking "get Messages" from any tab, QuickFolders used to also jump into the folder. This behavior is actually not desired, as you may have filter rules defined which remove mail from the Inbox so jumping into the Inbox is not useful when new mail is downloaded.
• [issue 191] Support large icon in QuickFolders toolbar buttons for high resolution displays.

Bug Fixes + Miscellaneus (5.8.1)

• [issue 211] Fixed: move Folders in quickMove fails in Thunderbird 91. You can now again drag (multiple) folders from the tree to the quickMove button in order to relocate them. Or use the Shortcut Shift+M if you have a QuickFolders Pro license.
• [issue 203] Fixed: When the quickFilters Add-on activates its assistant, all icons on left to the tabs on the QuickFolders toolbar turned white.
• [issue 209] Fixed: Tabs in Options Dialog become illegible in Thunderbird 91 when using dark themes with bright text.
• Fixed: In Thunderbird 91, background area behind current folder toolbar does not show correct background color from lightweight theme, even when lightweight support is enabled.
• Fixed: The History Tab was not displayed anymore when updating QuickFolders.

Known unresolved issues - W.I.P.

• [issue 204] WIP - Thunderbird 91: Background of QuickFolders toolbar doesn't support some themes when set to transparent.
• [issue 208] Upgrade from TB 78 to 91.1.2 sometimes leads to invalid / "orphaned" tabs. For the moment, you should be able to resolve these by clicking a tab with the "broom" / invalid icon or by running the tool command "Find Orphaned tabs".

  Should this not give the desired results, then you can export your tabs via the license tab or on the Advanced tab using the [Copy Tabs] button and send me the file so I can help you fix this.

5.8.1 - Published 18/Oct/2021

To support QuickFolders, please buy a QuickFolders Pro license here.
Or get the new cheaper QuickFolders Standard License. This is the preferred way of funding all the ongoing work and improvements.

Read the new comparison chart to see which functions you get depending on your license.

You can also donate from here.

Improvements

• [issue 205] When clicking "get Messages" from any tab, QuickFolders used to also jump into the folder. This behavior is actually not desired, as you may have filter rules defined which remove mail from the Inbox so jumping into the Inbox is not useful when new mail is downloaded.
• [issue 191] Support large icon in QuickFolders toolbar buttons for high resolution displays.

Bug Fixes + Miscellaneus

• [issue 211] Fixed: move Folders in quickMove fails in Thunderbird 91. You can now again drag (multiple) folders from the tree to the quickMove button in order to relocate them. Or use the Shortcut Shift+M if you have a QuickFolders Pro license.
[issue 203] Fixed: When the quickFilters Add-on activates its assistant, all icons on left to the tabs on the QuickFolders toolbar turned white.
• [issue 209] Fixed: Tabs in Options Dialog become illegible in Thunderbird 91 when using dark themes with bright text.
• Fixed: In Thunderbird 91, background area behind current folder toolbar does not show correct background color from lightweight theme, even when lightweight support is enabled.
• Fixed: The History Tab was not displayed anymore when updating QuickFolders.

Known issues - W.I.P.

• [issue 204] WIP - Thunderbird 91: Background of QuickFolders toolbar doesn't support some themes when set to transparent.
• [issue 208] Upgrade from TB 78 to 91.1.2 sometimes leads to invalid / "orphaned" tabs. For the moment, you should be able to resolve these by clicking a tab with the "broom" / invalid icon or by running the tool command "Find Orphaned tabs".

  Should this not give the desired results, then you can export your tabs via the license tab or on the Advanced tab using the [Copy Tabs] button and send me the file so I can help you fix this.

5.7.2 - Published 04/Sept/2021

Just a maintenance release:

• Fixed in 5.7.2: When quickFilters activates its assistant, all icons on left to the tabs will be white
• Added max version (Thunderbird 91.*) as mandated by new policies on ATN.

5.7.1 - Released for Tb91 on 28/08/2021

Maintenance Release - 5.7.1

• [issue 199] Fixed: when looking for parent folders using the syntax parent/parent/searchfolder, parent folder's with only a single character length name were not included.
• [issue 197] Instructions on empty toolbar get duplicated on folder change.
• Removed "workaround" experimental APIs (notifications, accounts)

5.7 - Published 09/Aug/2021

Release 5.7

• 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 114] Make QuickFolders compatible with Thunderbird 91. (ESR 2021/22) This is the list of issues found and fixed so far:
  1. Fixed the missing (and badly styled) [Buy License] button at the bottom of the options dialog. This is done by loading a separate style sheet link element into the shadow DOM.
  2. Fixed: showing the debug settings (and other advanced settings) via a small window that filters "about:config" stopped working in Tb91.
  3. Fixed: missing icons on sliding notification bars
  4. Removed deprecated fixIterator constructs
  5. [issue 189] Fixed: No longer able to move a message by dropping it on a quick folder tab. The function copyMessages was renamed in Tb91
  6. [issue 190] Fixed dragging the envelope from current folder toolbar (Navigation bar)
• [issue 187] Implement a QuickFolders Standard License. There will be now 2 licenses Pro and Standard, and the unfunded version will have a few restrictions. Most importantly, no more than 10 tabs are supported without any license. This is necessary in order to fund ongoing and future work so that the Add-on won't be lost to all users when Thunderbird moves away from experimental APIs. Standard Features will be listed here.
• [issue 184] Update Notice - [What's New] button is badly visible when using different QF theme than flat style.
• Ongoing work of Rewriting code to use APIs instead of Thunderbird's internal functions see [issue 147] for up to date detail.

Bug Fixes + Miscellaneus

• [issue 166] 3rd party themes - Current folder toolbar colors are incorrect until Refresh visible tabs command
• [issue 186] Theming make some items in options screens hard / impossible to see - improved visibility of dropdowns in options screen when using dark (and third party) themes
• [issue 185] On installation / sometimes restart or update of _other_ add-ons category is reset to "all"

5.6.6 - Published 12/07/2021

Maintenance versions - 5.6.6

• [issue 177] Fixed: Unreliable search if space and "-" characters are combined in the search string
• [issue 174] Main QuickFolders toolbar was hidden in single message tabs by default. Changed to being visible by default and added a setting to QuickFolders General settings.
• [issue 176] Hide instructions on how to set up QuickFolders at startup (for users who already have set up tabs)
• [issue 179] If you have many (1000s) of folders, you can disable the "multi word search" feature with the configuration setting extensions.quickfolders.premium.findFolder.disableSpace=true to improve performance while typing in quickJump / quickMove.
• Improved icon for quickMove help
• Improved removal of event listeners when installing new versions or disabling / reloading the Add-on.

Improvements - 5.6.5

• 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 172] Fixed (in v5.6.5): quickMove results pathes are only showing last 2 folders in path if only a single search word is entered.
• [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.

4.22.2 - 07/07/2021 for Thunderbird 68

Release 4.22.2

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.

Maintenance items - 4.22.2

• [issue 172] Fixed: quickMove result paths only show last 2 folders in path if only a single search word is entered.
• [issue 177] Fixed: Unreliable search if space ` ` and `-` characters are combined in the search string
• [issue 174] Main QuickFolders toolbar was hidden in single message tabs by default. Changed to being visible by default and added a setting to QuickFolders General settings.

Improvements - 4.22.1

• [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.
• [issue 172] Fixed (in v4.22.1): quickMove results pathes are only showing last 2 folders in path if only a single search word is entered.
• 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`