Loading ...Thunderbird earns its tabs
Published: June 27th, 2007
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.
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.
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June 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Cool, I am download TBird 3.0a1pre right now to try this out.
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June 28th, 2007 at 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?
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June 28th, 2007 at 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.
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March 19th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Just to let you know Percy, Thunderbird supports Gmail.
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Yes.. I tried Gmail on Thurnderbird.. Its fine
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