Tech 19 Oct 2003 07:37 pm
New birds
I upgraded to the new release versions of Thunderbird and Firebird today. At first glance, there’s no visible difference from the previous version (no obvious new bells and whistles), but the release notes say that a bunch of bugs were corrected, and when you start to use them you notice new things hiding here and there.
The only bug I noticed in Thunderbird is that, when you are editing message filters, if you add a new header to the list of known headers, you can’t do anything else to the list of headers (including selecting the one you just added) until you Alt-tab out of the window and back. I was going to report it, but it already is bug #212625 in Bugzilla.
Also, one thing that surely needs work is the matter of installation. Granted, it is nice being able to just unzip/untar the package and run it, but the matter of having to reinstall your extensions is not so nice. Speaking of which, I don’t know how I lived without TabBrowser Extensions for so long. My other two favorites are the Mouse Gestures and Web Developer extensions (and Tagzilla for Thunderbird).
Wishlist, all for Thunderbird: different .sigs for different folders (so that you can use a different one depending on which mailing-list you’re e-mailing; very useful if you regularly send messages in more than one language); better accuracy in the bayesian spam filters; and the ability to view the text part of a text+html message.
