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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
[Week 19]<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Axel
Grude <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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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<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 12/05/2016 18:02:49 18:02
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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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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.
>
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? :-)<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>
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