Comments on: Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Tabs

By: Bryan Clark » Blog Archive » Tabulation

Bryan Clark » Blog Archive » Tabulation — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:14:24 +0000

[...] Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Tabs [...]

By: jay

jay — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:38:00 +0000

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.

By: oneighturbo

oneighturbo — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:45:43 +0000

found it http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/08/1314216

By: oneighturbo

oneighturbo — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:43:15 +0000

i could of sworn i read that this wasnt going to be released… ill look through my reader, might have bene slashdot

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:16:20 +0000

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.

By: Matt Brett

Matt Brett — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:02:21 +0000

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.

By: George

George — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:36:55 +0000

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.

By: titanium_geek

titanium_geek — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:05:28 +0000

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.