[martin_fierro]

Anyone use T-bird?

I'm still using Eudora.

[egarvue]

I tried Thunderbird...it looked pretty, but stunk. It would appear to send messages, but wouldn't - I never knew if an email would really arrive or not, most of the time not. I don't know what the problem was, but I won't use it until they make a better version.

[dr_who_2]

I use it because no one seems to be properly maintaining MH. As for Firefox, it has better useability in some respects than Mozilla (particularly with bookmarks), but it has more bugs and glitches. I wish the darn program would stop trying to write to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP. Annoying as hell.

[Jeff Blogworthy]

Eudora rocks. Even with the ads, it's very nice. However, If they ever become overly agressive with the ads - I'm gone.

[Betis70]

I use KMail on my linux box and Mail.app on OS X. Required to use Outlook at work.

I may have to take a look at T-Bird.

[JWinNC]

I tried an earlier version, but couldn't see a strong reason to move away from Outlook. I do use FireFox however, miles better than IE. I might try T-Bird again now that it is 1.0 release.

I think this article has a good analysis.

JWinNC

[John Lenin]

I like Incredimail.

[mhx]

I use Thunderbird and it works great for me.

[searchandrecovery]

Anyone use T-bird?

I'm using firefox and thunderbird. firefox is great, thunderbird is really, really slow. But I'm on an old laptop with nt. But they both work. I'm willing to give them time.

[ovrtaxt]

I use it simply because it was free it came with Firefox. It's okay, nothing bad, in my experience. The junk mail filter is a plus.

[Space Wrangler]

I LOVE Firefox, but will stick with Outlook since all my contact and calender info is in Outlook and I sync it with my Ipaq PDA. Firefox is the epitome of 'less is more', weighing in at 4.5 MB, whereas the security nightmare known as IE is just south of 25 MB. Firefox also totally eliminates pop-ups 'out of the box'. A much leaner and better working browser to be sure. I've encouraged everyone I know to use it, and even have a copy on my pda and my cruzer USB drive as well so I can just download it right then and there to anyone I reccomend it to. No complaints whatsoever either. Everyone that I have reccomended it to uses it 90%+ as their browser.

[PokeyJoe]

Use Fedora, comes with thunderbird and firefox and open office (all free btw). Put thunderbird on windows - saved old emails from outlook worked like a charm despite what this guy says), passed it over to the Linux box - and wala. Done Deal. Chunked the Windows machine - have a new FreeRepublic reading daemon machine.

[Khurkris]

I switched to T-Bird and am very happy with its performance so far. It "learns" your mail preferences and so far, has done a fine job for me.


Of course I use FireFox...and it is excellent.

[Dubya-M-Dees]

I've been using both Firefox and Thunderbird for a while now. I LOVE Firefox. The extentions that are available make it very tweakable and feature rich. I haven't had any problems with Thunderbird either. I use it with several POP3 accounts and it works like a champ. Some of my favorite Firefox extentions: Adblock (advanced ad blocker)

Image Zoom (right click and hold on an image and use the scroller to zoom in and out right on the webpage)

Tabbrowser Preferences (adds some nice extras to tabbed browsing like middle clicking a link launches a new tab and sets the focus)

TinyURLCreater (Right click on a webpage and choose "Make tinyURL, and it does so and copies it to your clipboard)

And my number one favorite is - BugMeNot. It a sort of shared account manager for websites that require a registration (like newspaper websites require you to make an account to read an article). When you get to a page that asks for a log in, right click one of the registration boxes and choose "BugMeNot". It will search a central repository to see if there is an account for the site. If it finds one, it will autofill the login field and let you in. If it doesn't find one, it will ask you to go ahead and register an account there and submit it for other users. I haven't found a newspaper type site that it doesn't have an account for yet!!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Anyone use T-bird?

I tired it for a few days. I didn't have much luck with it.

I love Firefox.