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Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released
supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3.
Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."
It's kind of hard to call something "vaporware" when it's open source and you can download betas. Even if the project died right there, it wouldn't be vapor.
I have been a Thunderbird user for as long as it's been around (and before it was "Thunderbird"), and I thought I would be one forever. Even once I started using Gmail for my personal email, I thought I'd need Thunderbird for my work stuff. But, you know, the university started offering hosted Gmail, and I decided to try it... and, months later, I don't miss T-bird at all.
Thing is, I was one of the hold-outs. While quite a few staff and faculty here are still on desktop email, almost all of our students have preferred web mail for quite a few years now - even when the only web-based option was that gosh-awful "Webpine" (Hey! Here's a great idea! Let's use our awful, counter-intuitive, ugly Pine command line program as a design template for a new web-based email client!). So I wonder for how much longer any desktop email programs will even be considered relevant.
#DeleteChrome
That seems quite an important extension - any idea when (or if) it will be supported by TB3?
To me, it seems like an error of judgement to mainstream release a new version when key addons have not been satisfactorily updated. For the likes of Lightening, it isn't just eye-candy... and, for many, I suspect, breaking existing (addon) functionality will be unacceptable.
That said, I'm looking forward to 'conversation' view - and I've craved an improved address book for years... though what I saw when I last took a peek at the Beta wasn't much better than in TB2.
Stuff you don't want to have handy, but don't want to get rid of either was my interpretation. Like taking ancient files and putting them in a box in the basement, instead of taking up prime real estate in the filing cabinet. right?
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Outlook 2010 has something pretty close to that, including reading in from multiple folders. It's not perfect, but it's miles ahead of what previous versions of Outlook and just about every other standalone client have (at least in Windows).
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
Funny, the only thing thats keeping me from dropping Thunderbird and moving entirely to Gmail is the "plain-list-of-messages view" that Google is too stubborn to add for people like me that feel threading is a slower way of organizing things
I am a PC repairman that covers a two county area. While I myself enjoy 2Mbs Cable (with no neighbors on cable,Yay me!) sadly new lines haven't been run by the cable/teleco duopoly since the mid 80s, so anyone even slightly out of town gets told "dial up or fuck off". So I have to know such tricks to help out my buttraped customers.
Considering that the telecos are gouging to the tune of $130 a month! (yeah, no shit, that's what they charge here for dial up) and have shut out WISPs and other attempts to service the area (and thus cut off their $130 a month dial up gravy train) frankly I don't see how we will EVER get nationwide broadband without nationalizing the last mile and opening it to competition. They have a duopoly and will viciously shut out ANY competition that dares to try to gain an inch on their turf. I had a friend a few years back that tried to service one of these areas by paying $15k for a T-1 run and renting out connections and when they teleco saw their $130 a month customers start to drop off they jacked up his price to over $4k A MONTH and told him "don't like it? Try to sue us!" and was told by every lawyer he could find that the minimum for a drawn out fight with a teleco was 1 million+ and 10 years of his life. Needless to say he abandoned the T-1 and walked away.
So please don't buy the "everyone can get broadband if they want it" bullshit. I can tell your from experience that there are still many areas that are being told "dial up or fuck off" and are being gouged truly insane amounts of money by the telecos. I myself tried to offer the local cableco $15k to run a line the whole 2 1/2 blocks to my mother, which would have also covered another 8 homes, 25 if they would have ran the whole half mile length of the road. Their answer? $75k UP FRONT, plus a FIVE YEAR no questions asked maximum package with NO price limits to what they could charge, or GTFO. Needless to say in the 29 years my mother's house has stood they have yet to move the whole 2 1/2 BLOCKS to where she is, so for her it is "dial up or fuck off". So yeah, for my customers and my mother it sucks, but it is a choice of that or abandoning their homes. Some choice, huh?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.