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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 is out! For those who haven't heard about it yet, Mozilla Thunderbird is mozilla.org's new standalone mail client and sister product to Mozilla Firebird. According to MozillaZine's article on the release, new features include 'a redesigned Options dialogue, spell checker improvements, enhancements to the default theme and better performance and stability'. More information can be found at the Mozilla Thunderbird Project Page and in the release notes (which include the important information that a clean install is vital). Builds are available for Windows (7.3Mb), Mac OS (11.1Mb) and Linux (9.5Mb) or you can download the source (29.1Mb) and build it yourself for extra geek points."
Thunderbird / Firebird?
Why not pick a diffrent GMC product name just to confuse us!
Hornet
Gremlen
I don't enjoy this mental image of a drunk on the street with drinking from his paperbag while browsing the web.
SCO is suing Mozilla for making stuff on Linux. And Ford is suing Mozilla for using the word Thunderbird. And I'm being sued for not being funny.
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...but I still don't have any friends. :( ( no emails magically appeared )
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
...will Mozilla Taurus be released?
You run plugins in your mail client?
Bah! Let me know when Mozilla Mad Dog or Mozilla Night Train Express are released.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
running around going, "THE NEW PHONEBOOKS ARE HERE!! THE NEW PHONEBOOKS ARE HERE!!" whenever I see someone make an excited news post about a 0.1 rev to a *mail client*?
Why were they not a bit more aggresive with version numbers ? Its not like its a totally new code base so I'm wondering why they did not start at .4 or higher and work towards version parity (hopefully a 1.0 release in the very very near future) with Firebird so the Mozilla tools can be offered as a suite rather than a hodgepodge of different versions. I ask because telling your PHB you want to run 0.2 software in many cases is like telling him you have volunteered his services for clinical trials of a new protological device. Not something hes going to be happy about.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
See! The Internet is only for the Rich and Famous! Whole segments of the population has to do without!
You've never met anyone in middle management? You sir are a lucky man.
JUST FUCKING TRY
I will run pine or die!
Why can't Thunderbird deal with multipart attachments? Forte can, Outlook Express can and Thunderbird/Mozilla News seem to be the only mainstream newsreaders that cannot. I think this should be high on their agenda. Remember, pr0n friendliness always helps higher download rates.
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
Good question, should just stick to your kernel-based web browser and read straight off of the stack registers like the true geeks.
And soon to be followed by Waterbird for IRC and Earthbird for web page creation. Oh, and not to mention Tarmacbird for your addressbook needs! And the soon to be announced Bugbird for hunting down bugs in code!
Ceterum censeo Microsoftem esse delendam
If you are running Gentoo Linux, all your software is custom-compiled and optimized for your hardware.
Don't you mean: "If you are running Gentoo Linux, all your software is currently being compiled and optimized for your hardware." ?
Firebird bloated compared to Office? Does Redmond pay you by the word?
For those out there who wish to use thunderbird, we offer the following solutions:
Just put this in your user.js file in the profile folder:
[Gibberish omitted.]
Note that the prefs file can be tricky to find. On XP, it's usually in:
[Gibberish omitted.]
Remember to quit Thunderbird first, otherwise it'll overwrite your changes.
You know, it's amazing to me that open source software hasn't yet taken over the world.