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Please see the discussion at talk:Thunderbird_(disambiguation). - UtherSRG 20:20, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] MACOS
"As for Firefox, the Mac OS X version is poorly integrated and generally considered inferior to other ports."
What is this ?
[edit] Polish?
Is a special Polish edition of Thunderbird at work? Did I oversleep or what?--217.237.151.169 12:14, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Of course there's a Polish edition! As of the time of writing, it, and all other translations, can be found here (the filename is thunderbird-0.2-win32-plPL-SEAinstaller.exe.) --Ardonik.talk()* 14:26, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Hmm. That's not right; it's a link to a really old version. The latest internationalized versions are supposed to be here, but the URL on that page to localized versions is broken. The default installer seems to be for English only. Maybe someone else can help out? --Ardonik.talk()* 14:42, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
I think the Anon misunderstood "Polish work" (to improve 1.0) as "a work in the Polish language" [1]. --Menchi 02:54, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Themes and Extensions
Some thoughts. First, I don't think these should be grouped together- they are not similar, and extensions shouldn't be in the interface section. Second, they are non-standard terms which I think should be commented on to be skins and plugins, or something along those lines. Juan Ponderas 05:56, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Copying from firefox page?
It seems someone copied part of this page straight from the Firefox page. I found several instances where the word 'firefox' was used instead of thunderbird in the Cross-platform support section and the word browser was used instead of client in the Internationalization and localization section. I fixed the problems, but I'm not sure weather its ok for these sections to be identical to the Firefox page, so I thought I'd leave the matter in the hands of some more experienced users to handle. --Canageek 20:52, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Complaints
A common complaint I have heard (and have myself) is lack of an integrated calendar. Can that be added or do I need a documented source first? Oberiko 04:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- I say add, then if people don't like it, it'll get deleted. I mean, no one has answered since January... Additionally, there are extensions for calendar support and Mozilla does have a separate calendar. You may be aware of this though. Dawhitfield 02:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yup. Lightning was announced after I made the orginal post, so I think that basically puts the issue to rest. Oberiko 17:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Criticisms
Just a simple observation, but where it says that Thunderbird has been criticized for not having the ability to automatically save attachments to a folder, that's probably because it would become a huge security risk, with worms and virus's being able to easily infect users. -Astroman 03:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Tacking onto the criticism of not having this ability, it mentions that there is an extension to perform this functionality, could someone add a link to said extension ? Signpostmarv 20:00, July 8th 2006 (GMT)
[edit] not criticisms, feature requests
isn't this whole list pretty pointless? it's just a feature request list. should this be left to bugzilla, and not wikipedia? most of these aren't really criticisms. criticism would be more like "TB does X, but this adversely affects Y users, and the designers have refused to change it" or similar. feature requests are no9t criticisms. --60.242.222.210 00:12, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Message loss due to compacting folders?
I've spent many hours contributing to Thunderbird (not to mention using it and supporting it) and I have never seen this bug:
"Compacting folders can lead to the loss of messages in the folder you are viewing at the time"
Thus, I'm removing it from the list of "Possible deficencies". Perhaps someone can cite a source (like a bug in Bugzilla). I have seen folders that incorrectly display the count of messages and compacting folders fixes this problem. Perhaps the person who added this line was confused by that?
[edit] Is it proprietary software?
See discussion at Talk:SeaMonkey#Is it proprietary software?. -- mms 15:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- You can obtain/install officially branded products which don't have Talkback & are therefore completely free/open source. Trackback is widely considered to be an extension & not the core product. This is really free/open source software. --Karnesky 20:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Windows XP
Why don't we have it running under windows xp? (UNSIGNED COMMENT)
If you're talking about the screenshot, I'm in two minds myself: on one hand, XP is a far more common operating system, and Thunderbird is most likely to be run on it - so there is the "Encyclopaedia Accessibility" issue. Then, on the other, Thunderbird and Wikipedia both reflect open-source, non-proprietary values, and so perhaps it's more appropriate to have it under Linux. What do others think? - Certainly there would be no harm in including a screen shot of it running under other OSs as secondary pictures, but which is most appropriate for the primary picture? --Christopher 19:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Web Links
Someone has put a weblink in titled "Easy Tutorial to configure Thunderbird." It is obviously translated from some non-English language. I take issue with the use of the word "easy" when the language goes like this: "Thunderbird is a client of electronic mail of novel characteristics that turn it one more an option than attractive than it´s not possible to be let evaluate."
Surely someone's got a better weblink out there somewhere, yes?
Molasseskat 19:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
