Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Tabs
A future version of Mozilla’s email client, Thunderbird, will receive tabs as reported by ZD Net. You can check out this new feature in Thunderbird 1.6 Alpha 1 available from Myk Melez, a Thunderbird developer. Tabs work much the same way as they do in Firefox and can even be dragged and dropped. I think this is a much needed feature for Thunderbird and I can’t wait to see its final release.
Now that firefox is starting to be serious competition in the browser market, it’s time thunderbird started to grow up and prove itself to be really useful.
Hmm, I’m not entirely convinced tabs will prove as useful in Thunderbird as they did in Firefox. A significant quantity of the tabs’ functionality is already contained in the Inbox contents/subject titles dialog.
They’d be better served by moving to an Outlook 2003 implementation of Left pane - Inbox subject titles; Right pane - Specific email view (as opposed to the Top pane; Bottom pane implementation that Thunderbird and previous versions of Outlook use), imo. That change proved massively beneficial, I feel.
I tried this out earlier this morning but it wasn’t working properly for me. When I opened a message in a new tab, it replaced previously opened tabs with the same message. So I would end up with multiple, duplicate tabs.
Hopefully he can make this into an extension. I don’t see myself going back and re-downloading full packages for every version that’s released. I certainly don’t have a problem updating an extension, though.
Matt: I know what you are talking about… one tab is sort of the preview tab and whatever email is currently selected is opened there. It’s kind of annoying.
i could of sworn i read that this wasnt going to be released… ill look through my reader, might have bene slashdot
found it http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/08/1314216
I tried the tabs, and found them useless after a couple days. Open the email and send it to trash. The tab stays. Close the email, the tab stays. The result is a mess IMHO. Plus, you need to show the message pane to use the tabs. I’d hoped to be able to show the vertical layout only, open the messages in a new window, and have tabs appear at the top of the vertical display. No such luck.