OT anyone using Mozilla's Firebird and Thunderbird?

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Any comments about them?

Know of any good sites about customizing, themes, plugins etc. for both of
them, besides the ones in mozilla.org?

Thank you.

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JuanMa wrote on Mon, 04 Aug 2003 02:35:38 GMT
Any comments about them?

Know of any good sites about customizing, themes, plugins
etc. for both of them, besides the ones in mozilla.org?

Thank you.
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Using both exclusively despite their being in 'the early
stages'.

Particularly like Firebird's trick of being able to open whole
folders as new tabs. It is as good as the IE shells' 'groups'
feature.

Still using Xnews for NG's as I like the simplicity of it.
 
Mike Ring wrote on Mon, 04 Aug 2003 18:12:02 GMT
I like thunderbird, though I can't be bothered with the
filtering; I just knock em off the server with mailwasher.

I've just started using mozilla, and at the moment my gripe
is it opens each click on a link with a new window, and I
haven't yet found out if it can be stopped - it is
important because if too many windows get opened my
computer can crash; popups can do this.

I installed firebird at the same time, and I'll see what it
does.

Mike r
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Middle button click for a new tab.
Middle button on a folder opens each bookmark in a new tab.
 
|Any comments about them?
|
|Know of any good sites about customizing, themes, plugins etc. for both of
|them, besides the ones in mozilla.org?
|
|Thank you.

Been using Firebird for a month or so.
It's good, fast, simple enough for me to understand.
No problems at all.
John
 
|Any comments about them?
|
|Know of any good sites about customizing, themes, plugins etc. for both of
|them, besides the ones in mozilla.org?
|
|Thank you.

Been using Firebird for a month or so.
It's good, fast, simple enough for me to understand.
No problems at all.
John
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Maybe I've missed it, but I don't see an option to switch the tabs to
the bottom, like Avant. Is that possible?
 
Maybe I've missed it, but I don't see an option to switch the tabs to
the bottom, like Avant. Is that possible?
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It is if you install the tab extensions...it's under tab bar "advanced"
properties.
 
For those of you wanting more control over your browser go to the
"Extensions" page at http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html

You can get many excellent extenssions to control your browsers
behaviour and abilities pretty much any way you want.

For those people who were asking about window and tab behaviour, install
"Tabbrowser Extensions". It will allow you to fully customize the
browsers behaviour concerning location, how it reacts to opening links,
bookmarks, links form other programs (email), etc.
 
An alternative is to use an extension like this one from outsider reflex:
<http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en>
(There might be simpler/smaller extensions that do what you want though.)
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FANTASTIC

Thanks JanC, I've no idea how you get to know or understand all the stuff
that's out there.

I've just downloaded and installed (OK, it installed itself, it must have
known it was me), and it behaves just like IE!

Seriously, the real problem was following links in ngs or emails, which
kept opening new windows

Regards

Mike R
 
Thanks Jim, but I haven't got a middle button. I believe you can also
use Ctrl, but I don't like to have to continually operate keys when
I'm mousing.
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Right click the link then select "open in new tab."
 
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