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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. 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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  2. 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!)