Clippings for Thunderbird 8.0 preview release 1 released!

Clippings for Thunderbird 8.0 (formerly numbered 7.2) is an upcoming new version of the extension from AE Creations that saves frequently-entered text for later pasting into email messages. This preview release is now available for testers and early adopters craving the latest and greatest -- and while it's the most stable yet, testers should expect to run into the occasional bug.

(What's a preview release? Unlike a release candidate, preview releases may still have some minor issues, and localizations may be incomplete.)

Read on to learn more about what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 8.0, and how to get it!

What's New

• The Clippings context menu is now available for the subject field in the compose window. A clipping can also be added to the message subject using the keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+S (Control+Option+V on macOS).
• New preset placeholders for the recipient's first name in the To and Cc fields: $[TO_FIRST_NAME] and $[CC_FIRST_NAME]. To fill in these placeholders during pasting, Clippings will ask for permission to access your contacts when using these placeholders for the first time.
• The most recently pasted clipping can be pasted again from the keyboard paste dialog by pressing Enter 
• New option for Sync Clippings users to automatically sync when opening Clippings Manager or the New Clipping dialog, ensuring that you're working with the most up-to-date synced clippings. This can be turned on from the Sync Clippings Settings dialog in extension preferences
• The user interface accent color in Clippings Manager, the New Clipping dialog and other dialog boxes and extension pages now uses the system accent color, matching the UI colors in the rest of Thunderbird

How to Get It 

IMPORTANT! If you're already using Clippings and want to try this preview release, back up your clippings first before upgrading.

To install this preview release, head over to the Clippings for Thunderbird 8.0 preview release 1 page on GitHub. Look for the link to clippings-tb-8.0pre1.xpi, then right-click on it and select Save Link As, then choose a folder location on your system (for example, the Downloads folder). Then follow these step-by-step instructions from the Mozilla Support website to install Clippings in Thunderbird.

If you've installed a previous beta release, you'll be automatically updated to this release if automatic extension updates are turned on. 

Clippings for Thunderbird 8.0 is compatible with Thunderbird 140 and newer.

Help and Support

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

If you find a bug, you may file a bug report on GitHub. Please search the issues list first to confirm that your issue has not already been reported.

Help Wanted!

Translators are needed to update the UI text that have been added for this release. If you're fluent in English and another world language and would like to help, get started by joining the Crowdin project for Clippings!

This is a great opportunity to contribute to the development of Clippings and make it better for yourself and hundreds of thousands of users around the world. Contributors will have their efforts recognized and credited on this blog in the official release post, and listed in the credits page that will be linked in the About dialog.