When you look at the top five web browsers on today’s Internet, which are undoubtedly Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari you will notice that all but one reduce their functionality to Internet browsing. Opera is the only browser of the five that offers an integrated email client. The idea behind SeaMonkey is [...]

Categories: Firefox, The Web

Mozilla has released two new betas today. Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 is the first beta version of the upcoming version 5 of the Thunderbird desktop email client. Thunderbird users who are currently running a Miramar released should get update notifications soon. It is furthermore possible to manually check for updates to download and install the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

Thunderbird supports different folder view modes. From the standard listing of all folders to a unified folder listing to a listing of all root folders with unread messages. Especially the unread folder view is handy to display only folders with unread messages. The view mode may on the other hand be insufficient for users who [...]

Categories: Email

Big release day at Mozilla. Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.10 has been released next to Firefox 4.0.1 on the very same day. The release notes of the new version of the email client mention several performance, stability and security fixes without going into greater detail. The linked Security Advisory page does not list the changes in that [...]

Categories: Email, Security

Roman messaged me yesterday about a problem one of his friend’s was experiencing. His friend’s Gmail account was more or less at the storage size limit which meant that the friend either needed to buy additional storage from Gmail, or delete emails. Deleting the largest emails in the inbox should free up some space. But [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Sometimes you may want to send an email at a later time, maybe because you want someone to receive it a specific time and not earlier, or because you want to avoid mail server overload. The Thunderbird email client does not offer email scheduling options and it requires manual workaround to send out emails at [...]

Categories: Email

Mozilla Messaging has released a new version of the desktop email client Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3.1.8. is a security, stability and performance upgrade for the stable version of the email software. Not all pages have been updated yet to reflect the new release. Bugzilla lists a total of 56 bug fixes of which 13 have a [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Users of the Thunderbird email client can zoom the text of email messages by holding down Ctrl and tapping on + to increase the font size or – to reduce it. The zooming options are furthermore available under the View > Zoom menu in the menubar of the email client. There is however no option [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

The Thunderbird email client uses the same core that the Mozilla Firefox browser uses. This means that it is possible to open websites and services directly in the email software which can be handy at times. Add-ons are needed to add the functionality though, or at least to make it easily accessible. Web Application Tab [...]

Categories: Email