Praising the Mozilla Foundation

Yet again I am impressed by Mozilla’s products. Following the announcement of the release of Mozilla Firefox 0.9 yesterday I find out today that a Thunderbird 0.7 release is hot on its heels as announced here today!

If I didn’t know better I’d think the guys who hack at the Mozilla products were reading my mind, adding all the features I really want. One of the features added to the Thunderbird mail client is the ability to have multiple identities per account – i.e. several email addresses for one account. This is a feature I’ve been wanting ever since I first installed Thunderbird but I didn’t even know how to describe it, let alone ask for it! Basically it’s useful because I only really have two (actually three but I’m trying to get rid of one) pop3 accounts but I send and recieve emails from and to several addresses using that pop3 box.

I know I know, call me sad but I really am impressed by these guys. I find it mildly amusing that both the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client are technically still only previews (they’re not even to version 1 yet) and they’re already more stable, useful and slimmed down than IE and OE by an order of magnitude!

If you’re still using the unruly Internet Explorer beast, do yourself a favour and download Firefox. Once you’ve experienced stable tabbed browsing you’ll never look back 🙂 Long live Mozilla!

OK, I’m done evangalising now.

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