Monthly Archives: July 2007

Desktop or Web Mail?
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Posted on July 31, 2007 by

On Monday Mitchell posted the article Thunderbird — Differences in response to comments on her Email Call to Action post from last week about the Thunderbird’s Future. Mitchell points out that there seems to be a trend of folks moving … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Speaks Out
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Posted on July 27, 2007 by

See: Thunderbird’s Future for background info. Currently, Mitchell (Baker) has made some additional posts in Mitchell’s Blog in response to the comments left on her Email Call to Action from July 25th. Some of the ‘themes’ she is has/going to … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird's Future
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Posted on July 26, 2007 by

Granted I don’t talk as much about Thunderbird in here as I do Firefox. Part of that is because their isn’t as much news or anything to talk about with Thunderbird. On Wednesday Mozilla’s, Chief Lizard Wrangler (CEO) Mitchell Baker … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 Released
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Posted on July 20, 2007 by

From Mozilla Developer News: If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu starting later … Continue reading →

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Update: Installing Add-ons In Thunderbird
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Posted on July 9, 2007 by

In the Installing Add-ons in TBird entry, I put together a very comprehensive step-by-step list to install add-ons. All along I was think ‘there has to be a simpler way to do this.’  Well, there is according to this comment … Continue reading →

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Netscape Mercury
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Posted on July 8, 2007 by

I stumbled across this Wikipedia article earlier this week while doing some other research on Netscape. I thought this was interesting… Netscape Mercury is a standalone e-mail and news client in development by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007, the … Continue reading →

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Installing Add-ons in TBird
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Posted on July 8, 2007 by

Currently, Thunderbird does not have the automatic XPI installs like Firefox does for add-ons. This presents a problem to many Thunderbird users who have grown accustom to the simple install process in Firefox. Clicking the Install Now button/link will cause … Continue reading →

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ThunderBrowser
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Posted on July 7, 2007 by

This has to be by far the best extension I have seen for Thunderbird yet! I really hope this becomes a standard feature in TBird 3 as this makes viewing links in e-mail so, so easy! The extension installs a … Continue reading →

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New Spell Check For Thunderbird 3
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Posted on July 3, 2007 by

Hunspell has replaced the old MySpell spell check engine in Thunderbird 3.  Hunspell also replaced MySpell in OpenOffice.org last year.  Good news is dictionaries that are already installed while for MySpell will work with the Hunspell engine. Hunspell offers support … Continue reading →

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