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Thunderbird 0.7 Released

Posted by michael on from the freshmeat dept.

aeinome writes "Right on the heels of the release of Firefox 0.9 comes the official release of Thunderbird 0.7. Updates are similar to Firefox's, with new extension and theme managers and slight increases in speed. Be sure to read the release notes for the complete list of new features, and then download it from the Thunderbird homepage."

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  1. Thunderbird Rocks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have been using Thunderbird for quite sometime now. It is EXCELLENT. The spam filter works well after you train it.

  2. Re:vs. Opera by Punboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Opera, AFAIK, is not open-source. Firefox and Thunderbird are. Firefox and Thunderbird IMO are more stable and have more/easier to use features. Also, they look better. And in some cases are faster than Opera. Go try them out, they won't bite :-p

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  3. Re:Mozilla by neverkevin · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the FireFox FAQ:

    What's happening with the Firefox development?

    Firefox will be used as the default browser in Mozilla. The current Mozilla suite will be replaced by stand-alone applications.

    Link

  4. Actually... by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, at my (admittedly small) company, we have already standardized on Mozilla Thunderbird for email. There _are_ some bugs, but they are easier to live with than the shortcomings of other, lesser email software.

    We even use it on the Macs, which came with... Mail.app? iMail.app? whatever... We use it on the Macs, because it just does IMAP better. It still amazes me how poorly most email clients handle IMAP.

    Thunderbird also supports TLS for all mail communications, which is very nice to have out of the box support for in free software.

    YMMV.

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  5. Re:Still Room for Improvement by psylent · · Score: 5, Informative
    "In fact, I still can't seem to switch between HTML and plaintext email composition without changing my overall composition preferences, which is buried at least four or five clicks away from the composition window."

    Doesn't [shift]-Write work for you?

  6. Re:Not from me.... by Masami+Eiri · · Score: 5, Informative

    Delete your old install first, then install it. Or install to another folder. That should make it work.

  7. Caution with themes! by Trillan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know if it is a general problem or not, but when I've tried to download Thunderbird themes Firefox has attempted to use them, instead of passing them to Thunderbird.

    Not passing them to Thunderbird isn't that big a deal, really. Trying to use them in Firefox is. Installing a Thunderbird theme into Firefox will cause all of Firefox's controls to disappear.

    A little caution is in order.

  8. It's not. by justinarthur · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, running Mozilla is faster than running both Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time, because the mail/news and navigator components of Mozilla use the same instance of the Gecko Rendering Engine without wasting system resources. There is NO reason that I can possibly think of for switching from Mozilla [SeaMonkey] to Firefox+Thunderbird until Firefox+Thunderbird can utilize the same instance of the GRE. Moreover, if you want standalone, you can always select the specific components you want installed during the graphical installation or during compile.