[CLUE-Talk] Re: mozilla thunderbird

[Evan Widger]

>>Also taking functionaliy completely out of the mailer and moving it to
>>plugins (example: Offline mode) was frustrating in that I had to "fix"
>>Thunderbird (by installing plugins) to do what the previous versions did
>>already... seemed kinda silly to have to do that.
> 

it's probably just an effort to slim down the client. figuring that tech 
savvy people are largely the users of something in beta like 
thunderbird, and many tech savvy people are on broadband, a 
online/offline mode (for example) wouldn't necesarily be a feature to some.

then again there's that addage about when you assume something.....

glad i could help. i've been a rather large fan of firebird and 
thunderbird for a while now and have been using them (almost) 
exclusively for the past several months in windows (and of course never 
used anything else in freeBSD, well i take that back, i used mozilla to 
surf while i waited for firebird to compile. sheesh that takes a while)

the only thing i keep a shortcut to IE for is the occasional nonstandard 
webpage that won't work in firebird, and the yahoo launch music service 
i listen to from time to time, and any java applets i feel compelled to 
look at (still haven't figured out how to get java working in firebird).

great products and considering they're pre 1.0 (as noted) they're really 
stable and fast and reliable.

-Evan