Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released

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!"

Comments

Re:0.1?

[Anonymous Coward]

because your mom is a whore

"Thunderbird" is an awful name.

[macmastery]

The software's quality aside, it's an awful code name. Why would you name your product after a stereotypical wino beverage? It's inauspicious, to say the least.

Re:I just ate some cake.

[erikharrison]

You know, I hate it on Slashdot where someone makes a silly comment and then some dickwad goes "Did you not read the fscking article you fsking son of a french whore!".

But did you not read the release notes? I mean really? You used the software but didn't read the release notes. How strangely appropriate for Slashdot.

Re:Opera Rant!!

[e2mtt]

...well I think Opera's mail client rules! Seriously I wish they would make a stand-alone mail client with all its features. And strangely enough, Opera is only 3.3MB total, with both a browser and mail.

Opera's M2

[FsG]

Before you guys get too excited, check out what Opera's Revolutionary M2 has to offer. While the rest of the email clients were busy copying each other, Opera has been innovating a great deal. The result? A mail client that's unlike any other, with features like a threaded view for replies (useful for mailing lists!) and automatically created views for each of your contacts (which are also added automatically by analyzing your email), each of your mailing lists, etc.

The built-in spamfilter rocks, too, and it's really fast and responsive - so give it a try. :)

Thunder Bird is *GO!*

[OneArmedMan]

NT

No crashes after a week

[Snake_Plisken]

I confess I've been using this for only a week or so now (odd that they are announcing 0.1 yet my help about sez 0.6 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6) - either way I like what I have seen. Not one crash, the plugins work well, its faster (or at least seems faster than Moz) and its OSS. I haven't put it on my Linux box yet just out of laziness - over there, Moz still rules the roost.

Re:No crashes after a week

[Snake_Plisken]

Good thing I'm talking about Firebird when this article is talking about Thunderbird. Otherwise, I'd look like a real ass. Oh wait...

Re: Any OTHER OS browsers?

[dytin]

I truly don't understand everyone's fasincation with opera. I mean, its a good browser, I would use it over IE any day, but it is not super fast and bloat free. Mozilla feels much faster to me. When I open up a page that is stored on my local hard drive, in Moz I can't even see any evidence of load time. Whereas in Opera, it will actually take a second to load. No that that is a scientific study or anything, but Moz feels faster to me.

Also, Moz is so much more standards compliant. If you've ever tried making a webpage with CSS you would see. Opera is not horrible (certainly not as crappy as IE when it comes to CSS), but the page elements always seems to be off be one pixel or so in Opera, so I have to resort to hacks to get it to look right in Opera. In Moz all of me CSS just works the way it should.

Like I said though, it's not like Opera is really bad, its just not that great, and I really don't see why people on /. prefer it so much. (It's not even open source!)