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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. "

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  1. Thunderbird wish-list... by shic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Please, please, please can we get an updatable centralised (LDAP?) address book?
    2. I wish I could configure Thunderbird to refresh all my Imap folders periodically? I've dozens and without selecting each in turn they sometimes don't refresh with new mails delivered to a folder.
    3. I love the ease with which I can select between multiple sending email addresses - but I'd also like to be able to associate a particular email address with a particular destination address. This would make using the correct email address less error prone when posting to mailing lists... as well as avoiding confusing contacts who may only recognise me when I wear a specific "hat"

  2. Can someone tell me why.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..this is front page news?

  3. Kmail by datadriven · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So when can I expect this feature in kmail?

  4. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Such a thing aside, voice_of_all_reason, please listen to me, in spite of being not related this thread very much. Yesterday, I went to YOSHINOYA nearby my house. Then I found that all seats were saved, and couldn't sit. I gazed a banner which says"Reducing By 150yen". Are they fool? Is it nonsense? Hey, don't come YOSHINOYA where you usually don't come only for reducing by 150yen,goddam? Parents and their children also came? and said"Now, Dad'll order TOKUMORI?" I couldn't see anymore. I give you 150yen, so get away? YOSHINOYA originally should be more bloodthirsty. To stab or to be stabbed, such an atmosphere is desirable. Women and children must keep out it. At last, I satThen, the man who sit next to me ordered"OOMORI TUYUDAKU". So, I got angry again. Listen, TUYUDAKU is already out of date. I was disgusted because you order TUYUDAKU with a look of triumph. I want to ask him"Is that true that you want TUYUDAKU?". I want to ask a question closely. I want to ask a question closely almost one hour. I want to say"You simply want to say TUYUDAKU, and want to behave as if you are in the know. From the point of my view who is an professional of YOSHINOHYA, fashion among professionals of YOSHINOYA is NEGIDAKU. It is. NEGIDAKU is with much of leek. It is order style for professional of YOSHINOYA. But if you order with that style, you'll marked by a clerk. It is, so to speak, a sword with edges on the both side of it. I can't recommend it to beginners. After all, you, a beginner, should eat GYUSYAKETEISYOKU.

  5. Re:Sounds good to me. by AME · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's like Gay Marriage.

    Most people that I know who have a problem with Gay Marriage are not very concerned about what type of unions are legally recognized by the state or what benefits such unions have. Rather, the problem lies in the redefinition of the term "Marriage," which has had a well-understood meaning for a very long time.

    Tabbed emails take nothing away from folks who don't want to use that functionality

    Understand that I'm not talking about tabbed browsing, but your comparison to Gay Marriage, and compare that statement to this: "Using the term 'Free Software' in new ways takes nothing away from folks who want to use it to refer to its more traditional meaning." Well, not really.

    but there's a certain type of person who can't see beyond...

    Your characterization of Gay Marriage detractors is something of a strawman.

    Have I wandered far enough off topic?

    --
    "I have a good idea why it's hard to verify programs. They're usually wrong." --Manuel Blum, FOCS 94