Coming soon: Clippings for Thunderbird 6.0

After a few months of work, I'm ready to announce that a new version of Clippings for Thunderbird is coming soon, and will be compatible with Thunderbird 78.

The first beta release will be made available in the next few days for testers and early adopters craving the latest and greatest. If you're keen on being one of the first users to try it out, keep an eye on this blog as well as the AE Creations Help and Support forums for the beta release announcement.

Clippings NOT compatible with Thunderbird 78

Thunderbird 78 will be the next major release of this email client, and is expected to be released soon. This new version comes with major changes to extensions which requires them to be completely rewritten. Clippings for Thunderbird is affected as well.

At this time, Clippings will not be compatible with Thunderbird 78.  This may change as future versions of Thunderbird are released. Until then, Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 will remain compatible with Thunderbird 68.x.

Clippings for Mozilla Firefox is not affected by these Thunderbird changes.

Turn Off Automatic Updates

If you're a current user of Clippings for Thunderbird, you'll need to stay on Thunderbird 68.x.  Once Thunderbird 78 is released, your Thunderbird installation may automatically update, which will cause Clippings to stop working.

To ensure continued use of Clippings, you should turn off automatic updates for Thunderbird. To do that, follow these steps:

1. Click the Thunderbird menu (☰ icon) and then select Options → Options
2. On the left navigation sidebar, click Advanced
3. Click on the Update tab, then click the radio button with the title, "Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them"

Turn off automatic updates for Thunderbird in the Thunderbird options page. Click on the image to zoom in.

Note: It is safe to update Thunderbird 68 to a new minor release (for example, 68.10.0).  But you should avoid updating to version 78.0 or newer, if that is presented as an update option.