<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Both of your suggestions sounds acceptable to me. Browser opening with change log and donate notice on every major automatic upgrade (once a year, hardly ever twice) and on download page before and after clicking download button. Or some kind of intra Thunderbird VISIBLE donate notice on every major upgrade instead of automatic opening of browser.<div><br></div><div>Mihovil</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Izvorna poruka --------</div><div>Šalje: Axel Grude <axel.grude@gmail.com> </div><div>Datum: 14.05.2016. 14:10 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: tb-planning <tb-planning@mozilla.org> </div><div>Naslov: Re: Thunderbird version 45.1.0 available </div><div><br></div>
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Thunderbird version 45.1.0 available<br>
<b>From:</b>Onno Ekker<br>
<b>To:</b>Tb-planning <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Saturday, 14/05/2016 12:04:58 12:04 GMT ST +0100
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version 45.1.0 available<br>
</span><b>From:</b>Michael Meeks<br>
<b>To:</b>Jörg Knobloch <br>
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<pre>Hi there,
I guess I'm Michael Meeks - I should have introduced myself without
just lurking, but I'm rooting for Thunderbird quietly and have quite
spent some time working on LibreOffice with TDF; but enough of me:
On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 17:29 +0200, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
>> Wait, this will be 100% Thunderbird funds?
> > Can you add big/visible donate link/button to
> > <a target="_blank" class="blue" href="https://www.mozilla.org/hr/thunderbird/" target="_blank">https://www.mozilla.org/hr/thunderbird/</a> ?
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> More links are coming. We're planning one on the download page as
> well.
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From TDF's experience (in turn based on VLC's) - a rather useful time
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</span> does this include the download of an update? <img src="/views/Extjs3/themes/Group-Office/images/emoticons/normal/smile.gif" alt=":-)" /><br>
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<div>For a while my Thunderbird add-on would open a Firefox
tab on upgrade, showing the release notes with a donation
button on the bottom and it helped getting money, but
people were also complaining about it. Instead of changing
it to open a Thunderbird tab, which would be less
intrusive, I decided to remove that part of the code
altogether, which caused donations to drop to nearly zero.<br>
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<div>I think that if people had to go to a website to
install updates, it would be easier to get donations, but
the way installation of updates of Thunderbird itself and
updates of Thunderbird and it's add-ons are done, it is
hard to make people aware they can donate…<br>
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<p>from my own experience I always add "Donation" tabs (in
Thunderbird) when my Addons update with significant changes (not
on maintenance releases); I also add instructions on how to remove
the tab (usually by right-clicking the Donate button in my Addon's
options dialogs) for those annoyed by it. When people click the
"donate" link on the tab, it opens in a browser - because people
usually have their passwords stored there. I also usually add a
tab for version history.<br>
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<p>cheers</p>
<p>Axel</p>