Mozilla Thunderbird gets tabs
p2p news / p2pnet: Tabbed browsing is one of the reasons Firefox is so popular and now, thanks to an indie developer, it can also be a feature on Mozilla’s Thunderbird email app.
"If you haven’t tried message tabs before, using them is simple," says mykzilla, the man behind the upgrade, on his blog.
"Just right-click a message header and select ‘Open Message in New Tab’ from the context menu. You can also make the Enter key open messages in tabs by setting the Preferences -> Advanced -> Open new messages in preference to A new message tab.
"Tabs work much like they do in Firefox: you can close them with Ctrl/Cmd-w, reorder them with drag-and-drop, etc. Next time you want to save some messages to read a little later, or you want to work with several messages at once, but they aren’t all consecutive in the same folder, try opening the messages in tabs. I reckon you’ll find them easier to use than windows."
Mykzilla says he’s updated the patch to work on the trunk, and built a trunk test builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
"For folks who want to try out the feature but don’t want to ride the cutting edge, I also built 1.5 branch builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux," he says.
Stay tuned.
(Thanks, Joss)
Also read:-
blog – tabbed message browsing in Thunderbird: updated patch and test builds, December 6, 2005
