Thunderbird earns its tabs
Posted by Percy Cabello on June 27th, 2007 • Tags:
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David Bienvenu has announced that the ability to open messages in tabs has been added to Thunderbird in-development code. It’s pretty simple and useful, right-click in a message and select Open Message in New Tab.

As you can see in the screenshot, the folders and messages lists are kept in a separate tab.

Thunderbird messages in tabs

It’s still rough in the edges as one may expect from a very early implementation. For example the tab close buttons don’t work and you can’t double click a message to open a tab but this will get worked out in the next few days or weeks along with an option to open message on tabs or windows by default.

Without a doubt a welcomed improvement that Thunderbird 3 users will sure appreciate.

Comments
ffextensionguru said on June 27, 2007, 7:01 pm:

Cool, I am download TBird 3.0a1pre right now to try this out.

Latest TBird 3.0a1pre Nightly has Tabs! « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog said on June 27, 2007, 7:20 pm:

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The Thunderbird Desktop E-mail Client to Get Tabs! said on June 27, 2007, 9:42 pm:

[...] e-mail services having, and that is Firefox-style tabs. I was happy to see today that now it has finally been confirmed that the ability to open messages in tabs has been added to Thunderbird in-development code. [...]

David Naylor said on June 28, 2007, 12:00 pm:

This is interesting. I haven’t tried this yet, and I’m wondering if this is a big a hit as it is with web browsing? Anyone who tried it?

Mozilla Adds Tabs to Thunderbird Nightly…the Elves Dance - CyberNet News said on June 28, 2007, 4:59 pm:

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Kernel Source » Blog Archive » Llegan las pestañas a Thunderbird said on June 28, 2007, 5:25 pm:

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Percy Cabello said on June 28, 2007, 5:43 pm:

David, I am not much into desktop email clients as my main email client is Gmail. But having been a long time Yahoo! Mail beta user before that I really came to value the tab interface. It really helped me keep thing organized. That’s one single feature I’d like to see in Gmail soon.

Thunderbird Adds Tabs « One Post At a Time said on June 28, 2007, 5:46 pm:

[...] Source: FFExtensionGuru & Mozilla Links [...]

Llegan las pestañas a Thunderbird said on July 1, 2007, 6:39 pm:

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Originalme8 said on March 19, 2008, 12:03 am:

Just to let you know Percy, Thunderbird supports Gmail.

James Joseph said on April 25, 2008, 10:50 am:

Yes.. I tried Gmail on Thurnderbird.. Its fine

Bryan Clark » Blog Archive » Tabulation said on May 20, 2008, 12:14 pm:

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