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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. 33% usage increase: Mozilla just turned some heads by Burz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now they need to figure out why...

    My guess is that people are using Mozilla to get a handle on pop-ups.

  2. Does it have "safe preview"? by steveha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of my favorite features in Evolution is the safe preview: when you look at an email message, it renders the message in all ways that do not involve hitting a server. So an HTML message with bold, italics, colors, pictures, etc. will display correctly... except for anything that would touch a server.

    Why is this important? Because spammers make special URLs that encode your email address, and their servers use the special URLs to track you. If you even preview the message in Outlook, or in Mozilla Mail, their server gets a hit and they know your email address is a good one.

    There is a command on a menu, "Load Images", that will go ahead and put hits on servers and render the message completely. You can use this for email from sources you trust. (It ought to be a toolbar button, but it isn't yet in Evolution.)

    If Thunderbird doesn't already have this, I ought to file a bug.

    steveha

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  3. Lies, damn lies and statistics by JTunny · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Also of note, Mozilla's usage share has risen from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!
    Those stats are lacking/misleading.

    In the same period Netscape has lost more users than Mozilla has gained.

    It states IE6 adoption is increasing (my gran could've told you that) but fails to state the movement of MS's overall market share.