Comments on: Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha (a.k.a Shredder) Released

By: andrejusc

andrejusc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:32:43 +0000

Extensions development documentation needs to be enhanced much more! I was doing Address Book add-ons for MS Outlook several years ago already, but still have troubles with easy samples to follow for Thunderbird.

By: giorgio

giorgio — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:45:15 +0000

At this stage Thunderbird is somewhere between Outlook and Outlook Express. For the average Outlook Express user Thunderbird offers few advantages “out of the box”, but by installing some of the numerous add-ons (e.g. the Lightning add-on for calendaring) it can become much more powerful than OE.

Thanks to the add-ons TB can come close to Outlook in terms of the “list” of features, although most of these features would not be as powerful as in Outlook.

The greatest disadvantages compared to Outlook at this time would be the lack of groupware functionality as supported by the Exchange server for Outlook and device sync (although there are free as well as commercial add-ons addressing the latter issue).

But hey, it’s free and seems that now some good development work is taking place!

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:56:14 +0000

I haven’t used Thunderbird yet… what advantages over Outlook does it have?

By: SEO Man

SEO Man — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:57:09 +0000

Am a huge fan of Firefox and Thunderbird. Am going to upgrade asap!

By: Tech Roach

Tech Roach — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:09:40 +0000

Gecko in Linux is a nightmare. Believe me. Its kinda slow. Webkit-based Konqueror is better.

By: Dr SEO

Dr SEO — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:41:37 +0000

For some reason it crashes for me. I think its something to do with my system though.