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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stopping-spam-and-looking-good dept.

KonijnenBunny writes "May 3rd sees the release of the 0.6 version of Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail and newsgroup client, featuring improved junk-mail controls and a new brand identity, including a new Firefox-style icon. I switched from some murky client which didn't exactly have a bright outlook regarding spam to Thunderbird a while back and was not dissapointed. Grab this latest version at Mozilla.org." Mac OS X users can also enjoy the new Pinstripe theme, which matches the previous theme of the same name applied to Firefox.

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  1. Thunderbird by stateofmind · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I love thunderbird, if I was on any other OS other then WinXP, I would use it. Except when it comes down to Thunderbird vs. Outlook Express, I'll take OE for speed.

    Thunderbird is written in Java (correct me if I'm wrong), and can be terribly slow. That's the only reason OE wins, otherwise I would go for Thunderbird, it can just be painfully slow for me. But that goes for Java apps in general.

    BTW, does Thunderbird use SWT or Swing? I know I'm being lazy, and could check for myself, just asking.

    I love the work Mozilla has done so far, Firefox alone is great.

    Did anyone see the article in The Wallstreet Journal back in January? Walt Mossberg praised NetCaptor for it's tabbed browsing, wonder if he saw Firefox or not.

    Josh

  2. Re:Murky by mike_sucks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You = clueless.

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  3. Re:Murky by festers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you = humorless

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