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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released

Posted by simoniker on from the thunderbird-is-go dept.

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."

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  1. Pardon me. by Axe · · Score: -1, Troll
    And I can take a hit to my karma easily, but I do not have any other choice but to continue to use Outlook.

    And I should confess - I like it. ;(

    --
    <^>_<(ô ô)>_<^>
  2. So is it as slow as Mac OS X Mail? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or just as slow as molasses?

  3. The Mozilla project is dying! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: Mozilla is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Mozilla community when IDC confirmed that Mozilla market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Mozilla has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Mozilla is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Mozilla's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    Netscape 7 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant firing of all 50 Netscape developers by AOL only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Mozilla is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Mozilla.org leader Mitchell Baker states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Firebird are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Firebird posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Firebird users. Camino posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Firebird posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Camino. A recent article put Netscape 7 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 7 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 7 usenet posts.

    Netscape went out of business and will probably be taken over by AOL who sell another troubled browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that Mozilla has steadily declined in market share. Mozilla is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Mozilla is to survive at all it will be among browser dilettante dabblers. Mozilla continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Mozilla is dead.

    Fact: Mozilla is dying

  4. I AM ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    WHO GIVES A FUCK 6.66 RELEASED!!! OMG OMG LUNIX OMG

    (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)
    (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)
    (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)

  5. This just in . . SLASHDOT GETTING SLOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Read about this over a WHOLE HOUR ago on DA

  6. Bleh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I only use webmail. No pop, no imap, nothing but webmail for me. I highly recommend yahoo for this also.

  7. Re:Speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    use pine for speed, fag

    or how about kmail?

    GEKKO BLOWS -- PLAIN & PSIMPLE

  8. Re:In Other News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And I'll take you from behind. Bend over, here comes the train.

  9. Re:Thank you for the explination by kosmosik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Something obvious as "Mailer" and "Browser" - still "Browser" is too obscure - let's call it "Internet" and the mailer app - just "Mail"... Even smarter than "Wodr". But "Excell" is kinda stupid - what does it means? And "Outlook"? Don't even ask... Yeah I know - /me trollin ;-)

  10. Re:One feature I want... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 1, Troll
    Also, it requires access to a working Exchange Server, which isn't exactly cheap...

    Huh? EXPENSIVE? HOW ABOUT FREE! To quote Homer Simpson when he decided to steal cable television and Marge asked if they could afford it, "Zero dollars a month? Yeah, I think we can swing it!"

    1) Download FREE three month full trial at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/

    2) Install ontop of FREE Windows 2003 Server evaluation, inside your favorite free VMWare wanna-be emulator. Save image of clean install.

    3) Enjoy. Feel free to reload saved clean install image for continuous testing on free Exchange server.

    ...or easy to get working in the first place.

    4) If you can't get a default install of Exchange server running, you shouldn't be programming for it.