Thunderbird 0.8 (RSS support)

Laurens · 09-14-2004, 04:56 PM

Just noticed that Thunderbird 0.8 was released today.

Being such a huge TB fan, I tried it out immediately. I must say that it's nice to see RSS (and Atom) integration. TB's functionality is of course not in the same league as NewsGator, but if you don't use Outlook then you can't use that anyway.

I prefer a dedicated RSS reader myself, but I can see the appeal of being able to view everything from within a generic "news" client. "News" being your e-mail, UseNet newsgroups and RSS feeds. I hope the TB team follow through with the RSS support and improve upon it, they might just win me over.

Anyway, just wanted to share.

ignatz · 09-14-2004, 05:22 PM

They've also released a preview release of Firefox 1.0. One of the goodies in this release is RSS enabled bookmarks!

From the release notes:

Quote:

Live Bookmarks

You can now subscribe to and read RSS feeds in your Bookmarks. When you visit a page that advertises a RSS feed by using a

tag, a RSS icon will appear in the status bar. Click it to view a list of feeds the page is offering. Click one to subscribe - this adds a Bookmark Folder that contains all the recent posts from the feed.

I have not downloaded this release yet. I also like a dedicated reader, and have been using FeedDemon for that... Still, it does make it look like Mozilla is moving quickly into the RSS world. Perhaps they'll come out with a standalone reader of their own??

Laurens · 09-15-2004, 02:59 AM

I tried the Firefox 1.0 preview as well. At startup it complained about the All-in-One Gestures extension not being compatible yet and disabled it. I can't live without mouse gestures so I went back to 0.9.3.

stobs · 09-22-2004, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurens

I tried the Firefox 1.0 preview as well. At startup it complained about the All-in-One Gestures extension not being compatible yet and disabled it. I can't live without mouse gestures so I went back to 0.9.3.

you can download some mouse gestures extension here:
https://update.mozilla.org/extension...info.php?id=39

-S.

cbarnett · 09-22-2004, 07:09 PM

I'm still running 0.9.1.... I better upgrade.

Craig.

Alexander Turcic · 09-23-2004, 02:59 AM

A good place to find inofficial extensions, many of them updated for V1.0 PR, is here:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=776

All-in-One Gestures for V1.0 PR is also available there.

09-14-2004, 04:56 PM	#1
Laurens Jah Blessed Posts: 1,295 Karma: 1373 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Netherlands Device: iPod Touch	Thunderbird 0.8 (RSS support) Just noticed that Thunderbird 0.8 was released today. Being such a huge TB fan, I tried it out immediately. I must say that it's nice to see RSS (and Atom) integration. TB's functionality is of course not in the same league as NewsGator, but if you don't use Outlook then you can't use that anyway. I prefer a dedicated RSS reader myself, but I can see the appeal of being able to view everything from within a generic "news" client. "News" being your e-mail, UseNet newsgroups and RSS feeds. I hope the TB team follow through with the RSS support and improve upon it, they might just win me over. Anyway, just wanted to share.

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09-15-2004, 02:59 AM	#3
Laurens Jah Blessed Posts: 1,295 Karma: 1373 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Netherlands Device: iPod Touch	I tried the Firefox 1.0 preview as well. At startup it complained about the All-in-One Gestures extension not being compatible yet and disabled it. I can't live without mouse gestures so I went back to 0.9.3.

09-22-2004, 07:09 PM	#5
cbarnett MR prodigal son Posts: 1,085 Karma: 1083739 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O	I'm still running 0.9.1.... I better upgrade. Craig.

09-23-2004, 02:59 AM	#6
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,171 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	A good place to find inofficial extensions, many of them updated for V1.0 PR, is here: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=776 All-in-One Gestures for V1.0 PR is also available there.

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