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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the ground-up dept.

An anonymous reader submits: The Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone Mozilla based mail/news reader) developers have just released their first milestone: version 0.1, available for Mac Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The v0.1 release notes highlight some of the bigger features like customizable toolbars, UI extensions, contact manager sidebar, simplified UI, 3-pane mail window option, and spell checker. Also of note, Mozilla's usage share has risen from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!"

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  1. 0.1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    How incredibly exciting..

    1. Re:0.1? by Rhone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Here's my theory:

      The Mozilla developers realized that the slow and gradual climb toward Mozilla 1.0 was the most magical and exciting time of their lives. Every time they released a new 0.x version, they created a buzz of excitement as people speculated about how much longer it would take to get to 1.0, and even more people complained about how long it was taking them to develop Mozilla, how bloated and slow it was, and so on.

      And then Mozilla 1.0 was released and the Open Source world rejoiced. No doubt this must have been an exciting time for the Mozilla developers.

      Imagine the let-down after such a climax.

      1.1? Who cares. 1.2? Yeah yeah, blah whatever. Yeah we all know it's good now, yeah we're all using it (or other browsers which use its rendering engine), except for those whacko Konqueror lovers. It's not news anymore, it's just the next version to upgrade to.

      Needless to say, the Mozilla developers must have sunk into a deep depression. Finally, at a meeting of the devs, one of them must have come up with a bright idea....

      Dev 1: "Hey, I know how we can recapture the magic of those pre-1.0 days!"

      Dev 2: "Really?? How? Something has to be done, because I've been drinking non-stop and my wife's about to leave me!"

      Dev 1: "We can dump 'Mozilla'--it's just too boring now that we're past 1.0--and instead split it into separate mail and browser components. And we might as well dump the Composer, no one uses that anyway."

      Dev 2: "But why? We've been ignoring the 'Mozilla is too bloated' crowd for years, why bother to change now?"

      Dev 1: "Don't you see? Even though we're using the post-1.0 code we already have, we can consider the separate browser and mail components to be _new programs_...."

      Dev 2: "You mean... we can start them at version 0.1!"

      Dev 1: "Exactly! And we can recapture the magic of working toward 1.0 with not one program, but two!"

      Dev 2: "Genius! Fscking genius!"

      Well... that's my theory anyway.

  2. Wild Irish Rose by blakespot · · Score: 2, Funny
    I much prefer Wild Irish Rose to Thunderbird. Much more...immersive.


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  3. Mac Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...available for Mac Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

    Mac Linux? That's a gnu one.

    (bad-dump-ching!)

    1. Re:Mac Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      you sir would have just picked up a mod point for that one. 'tis a shame you're AC ('course i don't want to post dumb "you're funny" posts to my account)

    2. Re:Mac Linux? by Santos+L.+Halper · · Score: 5, Funny

      Isn't that what they run on the cash registers at McDonalds?

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  4. Newsreader? Only one test... by maeka · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it any good at retrieving porn binaries?

  5. Re:I have the pleasure to use this. by mcp33p4n75 · · Score: 5, Funny

    unfortunately it still reeks of "I-look-like-netscape"ocity (a problem plauging mozilla).

    Hmm... I wonder why that could be...

  6. Re:"Also of note, from 1.2% in February to 1.6% no by benjamindees · · Score: 4, Funny

    It means that Thunderbird is now 0.4% cooler than it was before. It's a major improvement.

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  7. 33%!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    just goes to show you that with enough manipulation, you can make any number look good.

  8. Re:in other news... by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

    After hitting an ATM earlier today the amount of money in my pocket went from $1 to $40, a 4000% improvement! I'm amazed you managed to get $39 out of an ATM.

  9. Re:Choices People, Choices! by amrust · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mozilla hates my cookies. NOT ANONYMOUS.

    Jebus.

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  10. Mac version of "Clippy" !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did anyone else notice in that third screenshot, the Mac OS X version of Office doesn't have "Clippy"... instead it has an original 1984-style Macintosh with a set of legs!!

    Kinda cool... at least for a minute or two.

  11. In other news... by FFFish · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...a Mozilla geek got laid. This means the sex rate has increased from 0% in the last year to 1% now, an infinite improvement!

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