Version History

We remain committed to maintain a version for both Thunderbird and Seamonkey (the Mozilla Suite), despite the fact that Seamonkey is no longer an official Mozilla Corporation product.

• version 0.9.3
  • Thunderbird 3.0 beta compatibility.
  • Fixed an issue with paragraph direction switching.
  • Fixed an issue with preffing-off the misdecoding detection.
• version 0.9.2
  • DIV elements in HTML messages will from now on have their directions set by our autodetection.
  • Fixed a problem with charset misdecoding detection on trunk builds.
  • Direction setting buttons, which had become busted in 0.9, work correctly again.
  • No longer complaining about the choice of ISO-8859-8-I as the default charset preference.
• version 0.9.1
  • Character set selection dialog bug fixed.
  • Message DOM now decorated with indications of our modifications.
• version 0.9
  • Direction is now auto-detected for each paragraph separately.
  • When reading a message, user can choose between 'autodetect directions', 'flush all paragraphs left' and 'flush all paragraphs right', using a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut.
  • Completely reworked message charset correction logic; now correctly setting the charset in many more cases.
  • Ability to correct the charset of messages with multiple MIME parts in different charsets, and even text in different charsets within the same MIME part.
  • Basic message direction now preserved when doing 'Edit as Draft...'
  • Version release procedure changes.
  • Users whose default charset isn't windows-1255/6 are prompted about the limited functionality in this situation.
  • Text direction detection logic improved: More cases correctly identified, somewhat better performance.
  • Arabic locale is now the general 'ar' rather than the specific 'ar-SA'.
  • Now decoding numeric HTML entities in messages, e.g. ס becomes the Hebrew letter 'Samech'.
• version 0.8
  • BiDi Mail UI now compatible with toolkitized seamonkey, a.k.a. Seamonkey 2.0a.
  • When you manually set the direction of a message, this setting persists, so that if you view another message and come back to the first one, your choice of direction still applies.
  • Composed message direction setting now also applies to the subject input box.
  • When setting RTL direction, the message will now be aligned to the right edge of the window, not the the 80-chars-from-the-left vertical line.
  • Now setting direction of every div within a message separately.
  • Internal reworking of event handler code.
• version 0.7.4
  • Now using all bidirectional character ranges, not just those for your own preferred language, for determining message direction.
  • Message subject textbox now also set to the same direction as the message body.
  • Slight Improvement of the logic for detecting misdecoded UTF-8 messages.
• version 0.7.3
  • Completely reworked charset and direction autodetection code; significant reduction in both false positives and false negatives for detection of UTF-8 and of windows codepages 1255/1256.
  • Urdu language localization (see credits here).
  • The extension is now also functional when setting 'View message as' to 'Simple HTML' or 'Text Only'.
  • Charset autodetection correction has been extended to include the attachments.
• version 0.7.2
  • Now settings the direction separately for each inline attachment to HTML messages.
  • Subject line now properly ignored when ascertaining direction and character encoding of message bodies.
  • Modifications the logic for detection of cases in which Mozilla set the message character encoding incorrectly; now also detecting cases in which UTF-8 messages were set to single-byte encodings.
  • Fixed behavior of Enter key when using menus.
  • Farsi language localization (see credits here).
• version 0.7.1
  • Thunderbird Only: Direction buttons are now available again in the Messenger and the single-message display windows, after having been accidentally removed in version 0.7.
• version 0.7
  • The extension now supports the Seamonkey composer as well, i.e. you have direction control when creating HTML pages.
  • The Thunderbird support is now limited to versions 1.5 and above.
  • The extension will now detect cases in which Mozilla misdetected the character encoding of a Hebrew or an Arabic message, set the encoding properly, then set the direction according.
  • Quoted text is now properly padded in both Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
  • Tweaked inter-paragraph spacing scheme.
  • Pressing Enter when at the bottom of a window no longer moves the caret out of sight.
  • The workaround for Mozilla bug 262497 is no longer provided.
  • Changes to the preference pane, especially in Mac OS X and GNOME environments.
  • The extension will now auto-detect the direction of HTML messages and RSS content in which the direction is not specficied explicitly.
  • 'Show Direction Control Buttons' preference now takes effect immediately
  • Fixed some issues with new paragraph insertion, such as keeping the existing font size.
• version 0.6.7
  • Fixed an internal error which blocked the Enter key from working in the composition window, in Thunderbird 1.0.5 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.10.
• version 0.6.6
  • Fixed a regression from version 0.6.5 - disregarding of the default composition direction preference.
• version 0.6.5
  • The shortcut key for paragraph direction switching is now Ctrl+E (Cmd+E on OS X).
  • Thunderbird Only: Ensured that the icons for the body direction setting buttons icons do not go missing unexpectedly.
  • Improvements to direction auto-detection logic of plain text messages.
  • When you edit a draft, its direction will no longer be reset to the default.
• version 0.6.4
  • Corrections, additions and consolidation of the extension mnemonics.
  • Fixed a possible hang due to an infinite loop when selecting text.
• version 0.6.3
  • Paragraphs are no longer created while in 'Body Text' mode.
  • Changes to the preferences UI in both Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
  • Reduced CPU usage, which hopefully benefits performance on slower machines.
  • RTL Quote bars now apply to incoming messages as well as to replies.
  • Several selection-traversal-logic-related fixes.
  • When opening a new message composition window, the caret no longer jumps to the message body.
  • Resolution of several compatibility problems with recent changes to Gecko.
• version 0.6.2
  • Fixed the Hebrew locale files which got accidentally botched in 0.6.1.
• version 0.6.1
  • Fixed internal syntactic errors which had prevented the operation of the extension in versions of Mozilla starting from December 1st, 2004 (see Bugzilla bug 272764).
• version 0.6
  • By default, pressing Enter no longer creates a significant vertical space.
  • Fixed the behavior of the Backspace key.
  • Automatic recognition of RTL-script text now includes languages other than Arabic and Hebrew (e.g. Farsi, Urdu).
  • Preferences for controlling the vertical margin before and after paragraphs.
  • Complete workaround for the Ctrl+Home/Ctrl+End issue. (We have also reported and fixed this bug for future versions of Mozilla).
  • Thunderbird only: Adapted main toolbar button images to the default theme under Windows and Mac OS.
  • Thunderbird only: Adapted formatting toolbar button images to the default theme under Windows.
  • Thunderbird only: Added option for displaying direction control buttons in the main Messenger window and/or in single message display windows.
  • 'Paragraph Mode' is now set for the first line of all new messages (not just the first new message).
  • Default message direction now always defined in the preferences dialog.
  • Various minor internal changes.
• version 0.5.2
  • Alternative Enter key behavior can be diabled with a hidden pref.
  • Partial workaround for Ctrl+Home/Ctrl+End bug.
  • Added Project URL to Options Panel in Thunderbird.
• version 0.5.1
  • Replying to a message now uses its current display direction rather than its autodetected display direction.
  • Quote bar now changes direction along with the message text.
  • Ctrl+Enter, Alt+Enter, etc. no longer blocked.
  • Miscellaneous small bug fixes and internal changes.
• version 0.5
  • Initial version.