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Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives

Posted by Zonk on from the fresh-from-their-brains-to-your-door dept.

Tech Support writes "Thunderbird 1.5 is here! It's ready to download, so get going. Finally, Firefox 1.5 has its counterpart. New features included automatic updates, anti-phishing protection, inline spellchecking, saved search folders, podcasting, RSS improvements, the ability to delete attachments from messages, and a whole lot more."

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  1. Now all they need to do is use 1 Runtime Engine by enmane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So we'll have TBird, Firefox, and a Calendar all running off 3 instances of the same runtime engine - hey, that's SMART!

    why not have the runtime engine built into all three products but only install if it isn't already present? Ya know, save memory and work on improving 1 engine instead of 3. Oh yeah, that's too smart and already exists as Mozilla (which was canned)...err...SeaMonkey.

    This is being brought to you by the same category of boffins that duped you into believing that tearing apart the StarOffice Suite would IMPROVE system response when, in fact, it has slowed things down about tenfold while using up MORE memory.

    I don't doubt that they are good products on their own but how about using a runtime engine that is already present instead of loading a new one each time - PAY ATTENTION SUN AND OO.ORG.

    The regression of these 2 areas (i.e. Mozilla and openoffice) is so sad and considering that they are the 2 most used packages says something about the leaders of these software packages.

    For the life of me, I can't figure out:
    1) Why Sun dumped the integrated package and didn't make it opensource while opensourcing the split apps.
    2) Why the promise of increased speed hasn't been fulfilled?
    3) Why things would get 10x worse, in terms of speed, with OO?
    4) Why the FF and TB creaters aren't working on a common GRE? How many people DON'T use both at the same time?! I love the packages but after seeing the memory useage when using both and comparing to Mozilla, I quickly went back to the Mozilla Suite.

    Enough ranting for the day

  2. Re:Doesn't run at all on my computer by MrBandersnatch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well this just bit me and too be honest, the fact that it doesnt warn you that youre installing over an existing directory when doing the install *AND IF YOU DO DO SO IT BREAKS* I really class as a bug and one as bad as many Ive found in any MS product. Sure I like TB but good software should NOT do this sort of thing.