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Less is More: Thunderbird 0.7 Review

Posted by michael on from the did-someone-say-thundercats? dept.

comforteagle writes "In part two of our look at Mozilla's less is more approach to thunderbird and firebird, Gareth Russell has finished the examination with a look at the newly released Thunderbird 0.7. Part one dealt with firefox and was discussed here on slashdot as well."

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  1. What about the lawsuit? by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought Ford Motor Co. was making them change the name to "ThunderFox."

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    1. Re:What about the lawsuit? by archen · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know, if they make a separate callendar, chat client, etc. I'm getting this bad vision of some sort of Voltron episode where Firefox, Thunderbird, Snowcat, and Crazyweasel all merge to become the Ultra-Netasour: Mozilla.

  2. someone has to say this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thunderbirds are go?

  3. I went a whole day thinking I had no mail. by dark-br · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh *that* would be a dream! ;)

  4. One word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ThunderCougarFalconBird...

    The futuristic (no pun intended) car inlaid with the beaks of 1000 eagles!

  5. The only problem I have... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    is that the icon on Mac OS X looks like an envelope with a bad toupe. If that is supposed to be a bird, please make it look like a bird and not a very bad comb over.

  6. Re:Had to go back to 0.6 by Radix37 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Me too... after I moved the old installation to a backup directory and went to install 0.7 to a new directory, I noticed the installer wouldn't even let you create a new folder! I had to make one myself and then pick that in the installer. After it installed, it locked up on starting. I couldn't even ctrl+alt+delete it to kill it, and it was using 100% cpu, and had to hard reset to kill it so I could uninstall it.

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  7. Re:One wish.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi, I'm Fred Mertz, please stop emailing me. You've already killed lucy.com, and charliebrown.com is mad, there isnt anyone there to pull the football out from infront of the webserver. Thank you.

    Fred.mertz@lucy.com

  8. Re:One wish.. by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 4, Funny
    fred.mertz@lucy.com?

    I imagine Ricky is getting more fed up with it than you are. Someone has some 'splaining to do.

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  9. Re:how about sperating out composer and adding to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > much needed functionality so that it can do everything frontpage can do.

    <span id="main">
    <blockquote>
    <blockquote>
    <div>Make< /div>&nbsp;<div>up</div>&nbsp;<div>your</div>&nbsp ;
    <div>mind.</div>&nbsp;<div>Do</div>&nbsp;<div>y ou</div>&nbsp;
    <div>want</div>&nbsp;<div>function ality</div>&nbsp;
    <div>or</div>&nbsp;
    <div>Front page</div>&nbsp;<div>compatibilty?</div>&nbsp;
    </ blockquote>
    </blockquote>
    </span>

  10. Calling International Rescue! by HBPiper · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thunderbird 1 was always my favorite. Official Site

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  11. OMFG by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've got vomity butterflies from laughing so hard.

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  12. Why are you here, then? by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're clearly better than us, what with your preachy signature and your goldplated nickname.

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  13. I'm waiting for Thunderfox by GodWasAnAlien · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's supposed to be much faster.