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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. Re:0.1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BTW that was my first FP!

    My life is now complete!!!!!!!

  2. Re:Newsreader? Only one test... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes but only if they are gay and/or involve shit eating. You would love it.

  3. Re:0.1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    because your mom is a whore

  4. "Thunderbird" is an awful name. by macmastery · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  5. Re:IE Is Too Tough To Beat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Opera's great, if you don't mind an ad banner or paying for it. Any by "paying for it" I mean "not paying for it at all and Googling an easily-obtainable serial."

  6. Re:I just ate some cake. by erikharrison · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  7. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No tags, some folks round here might find that offensive.

  8. Re:Opera Rant!! by e2mtt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...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.

  9. Re:IE Is Too Tough To Beat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    trinsic.org is an awesome source for serials... no ads at all

  10. What I'm waiting for by plopez · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Maddog 20/20 version. Nothin' like surfin' from the refrigerator box on Maddog, yeah baby...

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  11. Grishblag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Grishblag onwonk. donggle fedlandle. Tizzlenorf.

  12. Re:IE Is Too Tough To Beat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please accept the 'Clueless Twat of The Week Award' speech!....speech!....

  13. Opera's M2 by FsG · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    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. :)

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  14. Re:IE Too tough? Bullshit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe you know some homos? Hmmmm? I bet you know ONE homo real well. Yes or no?

  15. Thunder Bird is *GO!* by OneArmedMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NT

  16. No crashes after a week by Snake_Plisken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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    1. Re:No crashes after a week by Snake_Plisken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  17. Re: Any OTHER OS browsers? by dytin · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    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!)