Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Firefox-style Tabs

daria42 writes "A developer has added tabbed browsing of e-mail messages to Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client, mimicking one of the most popular features of the Firefox and Opera Web browsers." From the article: "It is unlikely the feature will be found in Mozilla's imminent release of Thunderbird 1.5 -- currently in testing -- but software developer Myk Melez has put test versions of Thunderbird online with the tabbed browsing feature included. However, there are doubts over the suitability of these downloads for production use as they are based on bleeding-edge 'unofficial' code. "

Comments

What is so great about tabbed browsers?

[ATeamMrT]

Why not have a second IE window open? At the bottom of windows you have the taskbar, you can tab from there. And when you hold the pointer over the application taskbar in windows, it will tell you what website that tab is. With Firefox browser tabs, do you get that same function, where you can put the arrow over the tab and it expands to tell you the website?

There is one reason I will not use Firefox, and that is because zonealarm has started going nuts since about Firefox 1.3. Before, it just wanted permission to access the internet. Now it wants to access the trusted zone too. Something stinks to me, why the extra permission?

Plus, with windows IE, I have a billion dollar company standing behind my product. Who can I complain to if Firefox screws me. I know the open source people will rip me a new one and mod me down, but I trust money and closed code. Firefox is getting large enough that hackers will start targeting them as much as IE.

It has been done before

[porneL]

Mail client with tabs? Opera.

Opera opens everything in tabs, including views of mail folders, e-mail composing windows, etc. They're all saved in session as well.