Mozilla mail client

Jimbeam3678 · 14 May 2007 at 19:54

Just started using this , is all graet apart from the fact when you open a link in an email it automatically open it in mozilla , while i'm using firefox (which is default).

I can't seem to find a setting so it uses the default browser I.e firefox.

Anyone got any ideas

MarcLister · 14 May 2007 at 20:12

I think it will use whatever browser you've set as default. So if Firefox is the default browser it will use that and you can't change it easily.

You sure Firefox is default? Is this Mozilla mail and not Thunderbird? Mozilla mail might be set to use Mozilla as part of a suite.

Jimbeam3678 · 14 May 2007 at 20:30

MarcLister said:
I think it will use whatever browser you've set as default. So if Firefox is the default browser it will use that and you can't change it easily.

You sure Firefox is default? Is this Mozilla mail and not Thunderbird? Mozilla mail might be set to use Mozilla as part of a suite.

Firefox is defin default browser. not to worry now, I've realised there is actually a standalone mozilla mail client. Which IMO is far better then outlook etc

MarcLister · 14 May 2007 at 20:31

divaboy said:
Firefox is defin default browser. not to worry now, I've realised there is actually a standalone mozilla mail client. Which IMO is far better then outlook etc

Thunderbird?

Jimbeam3678 · 14 May 2007 at 20:53

yep thats the one. Seems good to me. quiet happy with it. Is there anything I should know about it ?

Cob · 14 May 2007 at 21:00

Like Firefox, it has many very good plug-ins.

The Minimize-To-Tray one being the first I always install.

MarcLister · 14 May 2007 at 21:01

divaboy said:
yep thats the one. Seems good to me. quiet happy with it. Is there anything I should know about it ?

Its brilliant.

Cob said:
Like Firefox, it has many very good plug-ins.

The Minimize-To-Tray one being the first I always install.

Yep same here.

I also do this. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Config.trim_on_minimize

Reduces memory TB uses when its minimised. Also works with FF as well.

Jimbeam3678 · 14 May 2007 at 21:13

Thanks both really good ultils.

Where have I been all this time

Cob · 14 May 2007 at 22:17

MarcLister said:
I also do this. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Config.trim_on_minimize

Reduces memory TB uses when its minimised. Also works with FF as well.

Sweet. I hate the default delay.

GSDog · 14 May 2007 at 22:31

Yep, Thunderbird is great. That add-on is great too, thanks.

MarcLister · 14 May 2007 at 22:33

I also quite like this. http://www.chuonthis.com/extensions/nnwodc.php

Should be patched into Thunderbird. Sometimes Thunderbird will open a new copy of itself when you double click on a folder in the folder pane.

Jimbeam3678 · 14 May 2007 at 22:56

anyone else got any good add ons. Can't believe gone this long without coming across this program :confused:

MarcLister · 14 May 2007 at 23:05

Well depends on what you want to do with Thunderbird.

Check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird.

Jimbeam3678 · 14 May 2007 at 23:11

Got the foxy tunes one for fire fox

Just ploughing through all of those add ons and not knowing what are good etc. Just thought if anyone has any specific ones which are stand out I could have a play with them. Either way well impressed with this bit of software far better then outlook express

tolien · 15 May 2007 at 00:24

MarcLister said:
Sometimes Thunderbird will open a new copy of itself when you double click on a folder in the folder pane.

In 2.0? Never seen it here.

In addition to the usual ones (NTT, Talkback), I've got MinimizeToTray, Folderpane Tools and Correct Identity.

MarcLister · 15 May 2007 at 01:05

tolien said:
In 2.0? Never seen it here.

Ah looks like they have patched TB 2.0 with it. Excellent news that.

tolien said:
In addition to the usual ones (NTT, Talkback), I've got MinimizeToTray, Folderpane Tools and Correct Identity.

Just installed Folderpane Tools and Correct Identity and I likes.

What is NTT though? Nightly Tester Tools?

And has anyone got an updated Update Notifier for Thunderbird? Mine still says its not TB 2.0 compatible. I've tried editing the extension to change the max TB version it works with but I can never pack the extension back up again and persuade TB to install it.

tolien · 15 May 2007 at 01:14

MarcLister said:
Ah looks like they have patched TB 2.0 with it. Excellent news that.

Patched the bug probably, not necessarily lifted the extension.

What is NTT though? Nightly Tester Tools?

Yup. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070514 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4pre ID:2007051404

And has anyone got an updated Update Notifier for Thunderbird?

Odds are NTT will make it work. Bumped maxVersion form here anyway.

MarcLister · 15 May 2007 at 01:18

tolien said:
Patched the bug probably, not necessarily lifted the extension.

Er thats what I meant to say. Sorry. Its about time I have to say. Such a minor thing to fix surely? One of my lecturers moaned about that problem 2 years ago. I emailed him the link to the extension and heard nothing back from him. Went and checked with him after Easter to see if he'd sorted it. Turned out he had; he just didn't reply to say thanks. You can guess what I think of him now.

tolien said:
Bumped maxVersion form here anyway.

Thanks. Will give that a try. Currently browsing the Mozilla Thunderbird addons page. Its a pity that Thunderbird sits in the shadow of Firefox. I think Thunderbird is a cracking program and deserves a higher profile.

tolien · 15 May 2007 at 01:32

MarcLister said:
Such a minor thing to fix surely?

It was originally by design, and the patch (adding a pref to disable it) landed too late to catch the 1.5 branch, so it had to wait till 2.0.
The problem (or advantage, depending on perspective) is these things won't generally land in the middle of a branch's lifetime - adding/changing prefs, in say 1.5.0.4, could cause all sorts of carnage with extensions. 2.0 took longer from beta to release than was really ideal, I guess...

Looks vaguely like:

#214114 [Thunderbird:Mail Window Front End]-Double-click on folder opens new window AND goes to new messages. [All]

Its a pity that Thunderbird sits in the shadow of Firefox.

Quite, especially in terms of the number of folks working on and testing it.
Sunbird and chums are also very much treated like the poor relation which is a great shame, but FF makes MoFo a good bit of money...