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Anybody know anything about this. Just had a notice about this pop up when I launched FireFox. Wondering if it's any good and might be better than the Mail app?

James Steele wrote:Anybody know anything about this. Just had a notice about this pop up when I launched FireFox. Wondering if it's any good and might be better than the Mail app?

I tried it at the same time I tried FF. It didn't seem to me to offer anything that made it worth changing. What problems do you have with Mail?

bayswater wrote:

James Steele wrote:Anybody know anything about this. Just had a notice about this pop up when I launched FireFox. Wondering if it's any good and might be better than the Mail app?

I tried it at the same time I tried FF. It didn't seem to me to offer anything that made it worth changing. What problems do you have with Mail?

None at all really, just curious. I used to enjoy using Outlook Express back in the System 9 days and am open to the possibility that someone might build a better email mousetrap.

I looked at Thunderbird awhile back, but where Firefox seemed to offer some clear advantages over other web browsers, I never felt the Thunderbird was any better than any of the other main email clients, so I didn't make the switch.

I tried it a few years back, and it's still sitting on my desktop. I had no intention of switching to it as an email client as it clearly isn't as advanced as Apple Mail, but I do like its calendering tool, and would like it even more if it could sync up with Yahoo Groups.

A friend at work told me a few months ago that a big push was being made to overhaul Thunderbird and make it a Killer App, starting from the ground up with a rewrite. I'll believe it when I see it, but should probably look at the latest version anyway.

I'm more interested in it for Windows than Mac though, as I am increasingly annoyed with Outlook at work, and also see the possibility of better syncing home and work computers if I had a common email client on both.

I'm not sure that's really possible though, as the last I checked, this didn't seem to be a goal of Thunderbird vs. a uniform cross-platform GUI experience.

I recently tried it on Windows and implementing it with Gmail/IMAP was worse than Apple Mail, as I recall.

I didn't know AppleMail had a version for Windows!

Or are you comparing apples and lemons?

I'd kind of be lost with out the integration between Mac Mail and and Calendar. One click add events saves annoying cut/paste stuff. Also adding new contacts is a breeze.