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78 has had a lot of growing pains and AddOn authors are still playing catch up. I can say with certainty that TB is not only alive and well but getting loads of fixing for the upcoming ESR release. This year's culling of workforce at Mozilla made me worried too. A few years ago when Mozilla anounced TB was no longer going to be developed and put on life support, it was a tragic bit of news. It's paid off with both performance improvements and useability improvements that were long overdue. But, the Mozilla folks have enlisted a whole slew of new folks to address ancient bugs and beat the cruft out of TB. Sadly, TB 78 ESR is still stuck on LLVM 9.0.1 and Rust 1.43.
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The software combines all incoming messages into a single inbox, which means less time spent checking multiple accounts.The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. Last but not least, Smart Folders make keeping track of multiple email accounts much simpler. For those that already have a lot of information built into another account, this could also be a nice time-saving feature. A couple of these add-ons allow integration with both the Google and Yahoo calendar functions.
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One other neat thing is that for Windows 7, Vista and Macs with the Spotlight feature, the search results are integrated into the desktop search function, according to CNET.įor those that have a lot of email addresses stored in Address Book, this feature could save a lot of time.Īccording to several sources, add-ons are much easier to get with the new version of Thunderbird because of its built in, Firefox search engine. The search results automatically open in an appropriately labeled tab. However, the neat thing about this utility is that it allows the user to filter the messages and the service groups them under relevant categories. Being able to keep them all open and reference each message quickly saved me time and frustration.Īs with most clients, Thunderbird has a message search utility. I found this particularly beneficial when trying to gather information from an assortment of similar emails.
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Tabs in Thunderbird work much like those in Firefox, except the user opens messages in the tabs. I didn’t have to enter whether the account was POP3 or IMAP or any other sort of information other than the email address I wished to use and my name and password, making the setup process very streamlined. One thing that I really appreciated about the setup process for the product was that Thunderbird automatically detected the server settings from the other email account that I entered. That being said, let’s take a look at the things that make Thunderbird 3 more efficient than the past version. Upon trying Thunderbird, I found it to be vastly more efficient than using my web-based email on a daily basis.Īccording to Mozilla Messaging CEO David Ascher, “”If you look at the number of seconds saved over the population of Thunderbird users, it tends to be several lifetimes per year.” It’s nice to know that Thunderbird was developed with efficiency in mind. While Firefox is the browser I prefer to use, I had never thought of using Thunderbird until recently.
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Mozilla Thunderbird is an open source desktop email client (for Windows, Mac and Linux) that is based on the same basic principles as Firefox. However, one surprisingly pleasant desktop email client has been recently updated with several unique features. With Gmail and Hotmail garnering many clients, most people choose to use an web-based email client, instead. In the fast-paced world of technology, one of the things that has seemingly gone by the wayside is desktop email. Email has evolved so much over the past few years that the services that were once predominant are no longer used as much, and some may be considered even obsolete.