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!"

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IE Is Too Tough To Beat

[mfivis]

Also of note, Mozilla's usage share has risen from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!"

Unfortunately, as much as I love Mozilla, I haven't found a full on replacement for it. I don't like waiting for Mozilla to load, and there are just too many proprietary scripts at the sites I'm for me to use Mozilla full time for browsing. Thunderbird is an awesome improvement. I also use the Mozilla mail client heavily.

Good news

[DaveFS1002]

Whatever the feelings about Mozilla, I like the idea of only having to download and install what you need in order to make the lights go.

FSF says what?

[Tokerat]

The /. blurb says:

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.

It's GNU/Linux, dammit! :-D