Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released

Random BedHead Ed writes "The latest release of Mozilla Thunderbird, the standalone Mozilla mail program, has been released and is available for download here. A quick scan of the release notes shows some new improvements and features, including a new look, bug fixes, and for Linux users the ability to click on a URL in an e-mail and have it actually launch in your default web browser (how novel). Download and enjoy..."

Comments

Re:i just whacked off

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for sharing that with us! Its comments like these that make /. the worthwhile place it is! Place the yoda doll up yer arse! fuck you niggahs, we hate black cunts but love the GNAA!

too many features?

[fabio]

i use IE (plz dont hit me!) and the only reason i do , is because IE is simple, ive tried a few other browsers, and they all got some kind of extra functionality (IE have one too: crashing) that i dont want, so until someone makes a nrowser without all this extra stuff, ill stick with IE

and please dont link to Mosaic, i do know about!

Re:too many features?

[krumms]

Erm ... so what are you doing posting to Slashdot then?

Re:too many features?

[Anonymous Coward]

somebody please explain him the difference between a e-mail program and a browser

Re:too many features?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a strange troll... only a 5 digit ID and never posted messages until just yesterday, most of them being dumb/offtopic.

Re:too many features?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, what's the deal with that? Did some troll just remeber the password he used four years ago, when he first registered to be able to customize the page, or something?

Cool - Annoyance Eliminator!

[calebb]

I hadn't read much about Thunderbird yet...

Annoyance Eliminator Aside from preventing popup windows, Mozilla Firebird will also stop a number of other actions. Mozilla Firebird puts an end ... status bar tricks ... and spoofing that prevents you from seeing where links really go.

Sweet! I also read that it offers built-in one click downloading. The only thing I use, that isn't included in Firebird, is a spell checker for forms, etc. Currently, I'm using iespell(free) for Internet Explorer, but I haven't really looked for a Mozilla spell checker yet..

Caleb

Re:i just whacked off

[fabio]

and this is the reason that /. isnt taken seriously anymore

(get that dirty thought out of your head!)

wow

[koekepeer]

hey, did anyone else notice that some of the main topics are breaking the guidelines slashdot sets out itself for posts?

see moderator guidelines, under 'what is a good comment, 3rd paragraph: bad comments. it literally reads: "Bad comments are Flamebait".

i mean, the below comment would've gotten a (-1, Flamebait) for sure...

"and for Linux users the ability to click on a URL in an e-mail and have it actually launch in your default web browser (how novel)."

of course it is *true*, and of course people will mod this offtopic. i just get this pot-and-kettle feeling when i read this story.

Re:wow

[transient]

If I've learned anything about Slashdot over the years, it's that you shouldn't take seriously anything the editors say (this includes the moderator guidelines). Remember that this site began in someone's free time, and I don't think it's grown out of that. Slashdot is still pretty ragtag in spite of its commercialization. But I think that's a good thing.

Truthfully, I read the moderator guidelines once a long time ago, and I can't repeat a single word. This site is recreational and I treat it with a corresponding degree of seriousness. If you ask me, anyone who ranks Slashdot moderation as some kind of civic or moral duty deserves to be pissed off every now and then.

Of course, I do think making snide comments in story summaries is kind of stupid, perhaps even uncouth. But what the hell. It's just Slashdot.

You may commence the offtopic mods.

Re:wow

[Threni]

You worry too much. Slashdot has 700,000 members (or at least, that's how many handles have been allocated). You think they all read all the rules before moderating? Why?

Your time would be better spent wondering why the same people - as well as a hell of a lot of non-slashdot readers - make such bad choices when it comes to voting in Elections, unless you think Bush, Blair et al are the wise choices of an informed electorate.

Re:wow

[koekepeer]

well perhaps i cannot be as laid-back about it as you. i can't stand hypocrisy. and, as you said, the editors *do* tend to take themselves quite seriously, thus i think i have the right to complain. simple :)

of course my post is very offtopic, and therefore who am i to use the pot-kettle-black remark... :)

ah well

Re:wow

[koekepeer]

thanks for making me laugh my brains out :)

it's always fun to find out there are people that take themselves more seriously than i do.

and btw: don't you tell me what to worry about. as far as i'm concerned, i have as little influence on the behaviour of a braindead electorate, than i have on the behaviour of /. editors.

idiocy is universal, stupidity is ubiquitous
me, 2003

Re:wow

[shird]

How is that a "bad" comment though? Sarcastic yes, and poking fun at the joke of a desktop OS that is Linux, but not necessarily bad.

The only people that would think of that as bad is Linux apologists who are trying to ignore the fact that even though most basic features of an operating system/windowing environment/general computing environment do not exist in Linux. (note that it shouldnt be up to the Mail client to implement this feature, it should be a single line API call to the OS)

Re:wow

[bj8rn]

and, as you said, the editors *do* tend to take themselves quite seriously

That's because they haven't realized that /. is a game. Which is kinda ironic, as they were the ones who started it.

Teletubbies

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope they haven't given up on the great Windows XP 'Teletubbies' look.

Re:It's so refreshing to hear-

[Anonymous Coward]

-1, Troll? Oh, how the fuck...?

<cliche>Oh, right, this is Slashdot.</cliche>

Re:It's so refreshing to hear-

[Anonymous Coward]

You'd be surprised to see how very few people actually use these features.

new york city, corepirate nazi style

[Anonymous Coward]

mozilla? that must be some illegal pateNTdead hobbyist plot to destroy the stock markup fraud softwar gangster 'browser' funnelling 'business'?

eyecon0meter: 'net traffic increase report skewed (Score:mynuts won, that stuff doesn't matter)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07, @05:10AM (#7652658)
after optimistically reporting multi-month highs in general traffic, we are now dismayed to report an over 10% drop, first weak december.

looks to us as though J.'s about had it with the phonIE FraUDuleNT FUDgePacking, infactdead payper liesense virosys, blatantly false/MiSleading ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys being passed off as 'stuff that matters', etc.... lookout bullow.

consult with/trust in yOUR creators... get ready to brighten up.

score: mynuts won

MOD DOWN THE KARMA WHORE

[Anonymous Coward]

All this account does is post how great $LATEST_OPEN_SOURCE_PROJECT is and gets modded up for it. DON'T GIVE IN TO BLATANT KARMA WHORING!!!

Re:The extreme novelty

[elemental23]

As for Linux users, their clipboard images are planned for next century.

That's because it'll take that long to fix the clipboard(s) in X.