Quickfolders presents: Menu On Top Change Log

Have a look at the quick tutorial here: How to install Menu On Top

Menu On Top is a small extension which makes it possible to style Thunderbird and Firefox main menu. Detail on how to use it and screenshots are here.

Version Details

Here is a history of changes - as always note the dates are in UK format DD/MM/YYYY...

Version 1.16
- Updated color picker controls for Thunderbird 68.
- Updated all numeral textboxes for Thunderbird 68.
- Added Swedish / Italian translations for 'Fire-orange' flavour.
- Experimental: Added the "Rise of Tools" functionality (partly). This will elevate the main toolbar above the tab bar. however the toolbar is not hidden on calendar tabs, so this is kind of unfinished work.
Note: I still plan to add a routine that automatically unpacks all avatar graphics automatically - at the moment you will have to unpack them from the Add-on manually.

Version 1.15 - 17/06/2019
- Improved loading UI on Thunderbird 68 beta.
- Support for new HTML color picker which replaces the XUL version of same in modern versions of Thunderbird.
- Support for new Preferences system, but backwards compatible with Thunderbird 60.
- Replacement of document.createElement with createXULElement
- Improved loading custom icon (avatar) in modern versions of Thunderbird.

Version 1.14.1 - 07/05/2019
- Made compatible with Thunderbird beta 67.0. The minimum application for this version is Thunderbird 60. Works on Waterfox as well.
- Replaced all colorpickers with HTML elements (standard color picker, OS dependant). Unfortunately, these only support hexadecimal values; transparency and alpha values for colors are currently not possible.
- Replaced all groupbox elements with HTML fieldsets
- Added advanced debug settings which can be configured through right-clicking the debug checkbox on MenuOnTop options - Advanced Tab.
- 1.14.1 - removed javascript console warnings caused by MenuOnTop unnecessarily running on dialog windows.

Version 1.13 - 21/02/2019
- Special Edition for the Interlink Mail client
- Fixes the wrong position of the Menu in Interlink. (was shown underneath main tooplbar, now on top).
  Note that the options "Show Tabs in Title" is currently unsupported.

Version 1.11 - 19/02/2019
- Made compatible with Thunderbird 66.0b1 and current version of Pale Moon.
- Added new darker orange color choice 'fire'.
- Improved positioning of status bar icon when it is configured - navigation bar is only used as a last resort, the configuration button tries to install itself into the status bar if it finds one.
- Added cleanup code that hides the Status bar icon when uinstalling / updating.

Version 1.10 - 15/10/2018
- Made compatible with Thunderbird 63 for testing migration process of a restartless Add-on.
- Spanish translation complete (thanks to strel at Babelzilla)
Note

I am planning on making compatible versions of my other Add-ons QuickFolders quickFilters, and SmartTemplates as well but this will take some time - I am planning a developer hangout where I am hoping to get some help converting one of these as an example for existing developer of legacy Add-ons. If you are interested, please subscribe to my YouTube Channel Thunderbird Daily to get updates on these efforts.

Version 1.9 - 27/05/2018
- Added more color flavors (May Green, Cloud Blue, Rose Pink, Photon Bright & Dark)
  
  Current Purely Color Based Options:
  - Cloud - a light blue
  - Mountain - deep blue, ideal for styling Thunderbird
  - Parakeet - exotic bluish green, similar to Jade
  - May - deep bright green
  - Lime - sweet light green
  - Sunflower - deeply saturated yellow
  - Tangerine - deep orange matched with Firefox
  - Robin - saturated red
  - Morgana - a deep, satisfying purple
  - Rose - saturated pink
  - Oak - a lighter brown theme
  - Leather - dark reddish brown
  - Photon Default - standard for new Thunderbird 60 theme with bright backgrounds and dark text.
  - Photon Dark - dark flavor for new Thunderbird 60 webextension themes with bright text and dark backgrounds.
- Added menu border style options (solid, hidden, inset, outset, groove, ridge, dotted, dashed, double)
- Changed Radius settings from em to px because Thunderbird removed the em binding in XUL input items.
- Added new Avatar Icon for Thunderbird 60.
- Added function to sanitise the CSS for menu backgrounds (removes background: and semicolon when pasting rules from gradient editor at colorzilla.com)
- Slight improvement with not affecting border width when "colors only" is selected.

Version 1.8.1 - 27/04/2018
- Added Shim modules for backwards compatibility for Thunderbird versions < 51
- Added Spanish Locale (thanks to strel at Babelzilla)
- Added Waterfox, Firefox Quantum and some Pepe avatars
- Made compatible for Thunderbird 60.* (2018 ESR Release)

Version 1.7 - 26/11/2017

Important news: This addon will not work from Firefox version 57 as XUL / XPCOM based addons are officially not supported anymore. To keep using MenuOnTop you can install Waterfox (recommended), Firefox Pale Moon or SeaMonkey. These are all browsers based on the Mozilla open & free codebase. To install, maked sure to enable extensions.legacy.enabled = true in about:config.
Some more information what changed in Firefox Quantum and how to get your Addons back:
- Removed obsolete references to nsIPrefBranch2. These would break when reading settings in Thunderbird 57.
- Removed version options from script tags which also broke settings in Thunderbird 57 and later.
- Fixed storage of some default settings (top margin, left margin)

1.6 - 13/11/2017
- Completed Swedish Locale (thanks to A. Regnander at Babelzilla)

1.5 - 04/11/2017
- Added Italian Locale - (thanks to Leopoldo Saggin at Babelzilla)
- Added Chinese Locale (thanks to YFdyh000 at Babelzilla)
- Added Swedish Locale (thanks to A. Regnander at Babelzilla)
- Added option for font shadows
- Firefox Pale Moon: fix tab opener for bookmarks
- In Firefox: If a tab is already open in the current window, set focus to it instead of opening a duplicate.
- Made sure the new tabbar top-spacing setting from version 1.4 works in Firefox too.

1.4 - 09/03/2017
- Added setting for spacing to tabbar when not in maximized mode "Tab bar top margin"
  
  before after
- Added Pale Moon support
- Added spacing to caption bar when in maximized mode
- Added localisation and German locale - please contact me below if you want to add your own language
- Make sure that icon height overrides max menu height. When selecting a new flavor (which has a specific maximum menu height), and an Icon is active, then the maximum height of the men will not fall below the size value given on the advanced settings page.
- Moved support pages to quickfolders.org
- Added two Pepe Icons
1.3 - 10/05/2016
- Removed caption buttons space (right of calendar buttons) in Thunderbird under Windows
  
  Before After
- Added remote port label option for developers
- Tb 48.0 Support for adding the new Thunderbird preferences tab to bookmark menu. You can also add it manually in older versions
- Fixed "about" tabs to open in content tabs from Firefox 43.0
- Known issue: avatar icon not working if profile name contains special characters (space?)
1.2 - 11/01/2016
- Fixed global let which broke MenuOnTop in Firefox 44 beta
- Bumped up compatibility to 44.*
- Have a happy new Year 2016!

1.1 - 17/10/2015
- Added Firefox and Thunderbird icons and also Halloween ones. Of course you can still use the League of Legends avatars which were distributed with the previous version.
- Font size and bold attribute for custom menuitem.
- Improved instant loading of settings on update.
- Enabling Custom Menu will show avatar icon instantly

1.0 - 11/Oct/2015
- Especially for Thunderbird, you can now specify a space for dragging the window if you are using the option "show menu in titlebar":
- Added lop-left bookmark feature, use it to store your most important web pages, single messages (Tb) and mail folders (Tb). This is a handy and quick way of keeping only the most important bookmarks within easy reach without wasting screen space.
  
  Just activate the option in advanced, and enter a label of your choice. The new menu will show up beside the "File" menu. Navigate to any web-page or open an email, open a single message tab or click on a Folder, and then choose "Add current Item" (Thunderbird) or "Add current Webpage" (Firefox).
  This is a space-saver for when you do not want to permanently show your Personal Bookmark Toolbar. So ultimately this will unclutter your Mozilla experience!
- Added Avatar Icon - choose an image to represent your profile. I have added some icons of League of Legends and Borderlands characters, created from images I found -these are under fair use and I have added license information and links in the "avatars" subfolders where they are stored.
- Added separate color choices for hover / active menu items
- New theme "Australis Redesigned"
- Improved layout of settings dialog

0.9.8 - 04/11/2014
- Added Firefox Support
- Added setting for left margin

0.9.6 - 10/08/2014
- Added a "force small icons" option to make sure buttons in menu toolbar stay small in the latest Thunderbird versions

0.9.5 - 24/05/2014
- Preferences dialog stays on top of Thunderbird now
- Added new "Tangerine" flavor.
- Border color and width.
- Better handling of defaults.
- Increases search box height when displaying in menu by cutting down margin: .chromeclass-menubar .remote-gloda-search{margin:1px 2px; }

0.9.4 - 02/09/2013
- Choices for corner radius rules (left, right)
- removed ROTT specific code to eliminate mail-toolbar3 dependencies
- icon size settings: for small and normal size.
- Added transparency switch for menu background (for Personas):
- Added green color "Parakeet"
- To do: improve css tidy up routine - disable only works once in a session.

0.9.3 - 17/06/2013
- Persisted statusbar icon across sessions.
- Added version history button.
- Reuse preferences window if it is already open.
- Improved debug log feature.

0.9.2 - 15/06/2013
- Real Instant Apply from Options screen
- Added options for border radius (value in em and left, right switches)
- Added Statusbar Icon
- Menu will now be made visible automatically when Addon is installed or updated.
- Add Phoenity style

0.9.1 - 10/06/2013
- Added options window, with settings for margins and color
- Added style chooser, supporting major themes
- Added Linux / Mac support
- Bumped up max version to 22 for current beta users

0.9 - Initial Release - 09/06/2013
- Initial Release, based on Rise of the Tools addon - this is my first restartless addon
- It just moved the menu to the top, no configurable options.