Silvermel and Charamel - Themes for Firefox and Thunderbird

[kungfujoe]

I rarely compose messages in HTML (I'm of the old school mindset that email is for text, and that it's not up to me to decide what color, font, or text size the recipient should be using to read it), so I never noticed this problem until yesterday, when I forwarded an HTML message from someone. The forward window opened up, and I saw that the format bar is messed up using Silvermel. Take a look at the embedded link to see an example and description of the problem.

This is in Thunderbird 17.0 in Windows 7 Pro x64 with Silvermel 1.5.5pre_trunk_r5753. You'll see that I have a number of other extensions that affect the appearance of the compose window, but none of them specifically affect the format bar.

[ShareBird]

Hello kungfujoe, this is a known problem. I will fix it in the next version.
Anyway, thanks for reporting and have a wonderful new year!

[TechnoLurker]

Having an odd problem with TB17 and the latest dev version of Silvermel. On Win7 x64 at home, I can see my desktop peeking through, around the preview pane and messages list. At work (also with Win7 x64 and TB17), it doesn't occur. Will try to get a screenshot.

[dlauber]

Thanks for developing Silvermel and Charamel -- easily my favorite themes for TBird and FireFox.

I've run into a problem with both of these themes with Thunderbird 17.0 and 17.0.2 in Windows 8 Pro, 64-bit. When using either of your wonderful themes, the height of the top border is very small -- about half the normal height -- and it is impossible to click on it to drag the TBird window anywhere. I've seen this narrow border with other themes in TBird 17, but you can grab and drag TBird with them. It's just with Silvermel and Charamel where you can't grab and drag the window at all. Please, please help -- I hate having to use other themes for now, as I imagine others hate to do as well. If you expect to fix this in the next build, when do you expect to release the next build?

Thanks for whatever you can do to remedy this odd behavior that renders TBird pretty useless with your great themes.

[ShareBird]

dlauber, please try the last dev version:
viewtopic.php?p=12550031#p12550031

[dlauber]

Thank you. The developer version worked! Much appreciated.

[TechnoLurker]

Okay, back with some screenshots.

This is Thunderbird with Silvermel 1.5.5 pretrunk 5753
extensions.silvermelxt.aeroenabled set to false



This is Thunderbird with Silvermel 1.5.5 pretrunk 5753
extensions.silvermelxt.aeroenabled set to true

[ShareBird]

Thank you very much TechnoLurker!
I guess I've already fixed this on my workspace. I'm working on this facebook thing for Firefox now, as soon as possible I will post a new dev version. Please check if the problem is still there with the next dev version, ok?

[Davec33]

Just an update to my post of 25th December (where the scroll bar at the right of the screen would sometimes refuse to move).
Looks like the problem is solved using FF18.0 with 1.5.5pre r5753.

Now I'm happy again !

[ShareBird]

Thanks for the feedback Dave33! I'm happy too!

[victorious]

FF18 is out and my fav theme isnt working. Any fixes or ideas? When will the theme get updated?

Thanks!

[ShareBird]

victorious, please try the last dev version:
viewtopic.php?p=12550031#p12550031

[Mars_999]

Hello,

Under FF18 I am seeing black box rendering issues and FF18 crashes alot for me, not sure if it's Silvermel or not, but odd why every time FF updates breaks Silvermel....

Please advise... Also I am running the latest 1.5.5 5753

[ShareBird]

Hallo Mars_999, could you try with a new profile?

[dlauber]

Mars_999,

I see that your difficulties are in FireFox 18. I take it that Silvermel and FireFox 17 got along okay. Does FireFox 18 run okay if you use a different theme?
One thing I've learned over the years with FireFox, is that your profile can get a bit corrupted when its several years old, especially if you've installed a lot of extensions. You might want to experiment and set up a new clean FireFox profile and install only Silvermel first to see if you get the same bad behavior.
Another option is to copy your entire profile (let us know if you don't know where it is and somebody here will certainly tell you) to a backup directory. Then go to Help, Troubleshooting Information, Print out the results so you'll have a list of all your add-ons and changes, and then click on the "Reset FireFox" button in the upper right hand corner. This will give you a clean profile with your passwords, cookies, etc, but no add-ons. Presumably FireFox will work just fine. Install Silvermel and see if FireFox continues to work well. Then install your add-ons one by one (or in groups of two or three) and make sure FireFox is working fine before you install the next add-on or group of add-ons. If it goes bad again, you know the problem rests with the last add-on (or one in the last group of add-ons) you installed. Disable the last add-on or one by one the add-ons in the last group you installed and you should be able to isolate the cause of the problem.