Clippings for Thunderbird 6.0 released!

After months of work, Clippings for Thunderbird is finally compatible with Thunderbird 78!

Clippings for Thunderbird 6.0 has been released and is available for download from the AE Creations website.

If you already have an older version of Clippings for Thunderbird installed, first ensure that Thunderbird has been upgraded to version 78. Once Thunderbird has been upgraded, Clippings for Thunderbird will be automatically upgraded if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Add-ons Manager (from the Thunderbird menu, click Add-ons), click on the entry for Clippings in the list of installed extensions, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check for Updates.

 

What's New

• Compatible with Thunderbird 78
• The Clippings Manager window and the New Clipping dialog have a similar look and feel as the same found in Clippings for Firefox
  
• It's now possible to drag 'n drop clippings and folders in the clippings tree list in Clippings Manager. This feature has been broken since Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 (an "Arrange" dialog box was available to rearrange clippings and folders by drag 'n drop), and is finally fixed in version 6.0
• In the New Clipping dialog, you can now preview the clipping when applying the options to create as unquoted text or remove extra line breaks
• Available in Dutch and Portuguese (Brazil)

 

Things You Should Know About

• Clippings for Thunderbird 6.0 is compatible with Thunderbird 78 only. It is not compatible with earlier versions of Thunderbird, nor is it compatible with current beta releases of Thunderbird (version 89 beta 1 is the latest at the time of this post).
• On Windows 10, the keyboard shortcut for pasting a clipping using its shortcut key has changed -- it is now ALT+SHIFT+Y. The old shortcut CTRL+ALT+V still works on Windows 7. The macOS shortcut Command+Option+V is unchanged.
• The option to show a prompt when pasting a clipping containing HTML tags into an HTML-formatted message is no longer available. If you had selected this option in previous versions, the clipping will now be automatically pasted as formatted text.

Synchronizing Your Clippings

If you want to use Sync Clippings, download and install Sync Clippings Helper version 1.1, which is compatible with Clippings for Thunderbird 6.0.

Download links can be found on the AE Creations website. The Sync Clippings Helper app is available for Windows only.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Clippings should be posted to the AE Creations Help and Support forums, hosted on Google Groups.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to these Crowdin contributors for adding localizations for Clippings: Klaas Swart (Dutch) and ticao7 (Portuguese [Brazil]). If you are fluent in English and another world language and would like to help update or add a new translation, consider contributing a translation in Crowdin.

Thanks to the users who helped out with testing of the beta releases and sent in bug reports and feedback.

Final Thoughts

Getting Clippings for Thunderbird to work on Thunderbird 78 was a challenging effort, and your patience is very much appreciated.

If you enjoy using Clippings for Thunderbird, show your support for its continued maintenance and development by making a donation via PayPal.