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Upgrading from Mozilla Mail to Thunderbird

Monday, March 14th, 2005

I finally got around to upgrading my Mozilla Mail installation to the new Thunderbird client. Unfortunatly, it went less smoothly than I have hoped but it worked. At first, I followed the instructions provided by David Tenser. Unfortunatly, on the Linux side I ran across a rather nasty bug which ...

Thunderbird RPM

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

Since the official Fedora distribution is lagging, Thomas Chung provides excellent instructions on building your own RPM. For the lazy ones among you, I put up my binary RPM here. Following up on an earlier problem of sharing Thunderbird data between Windows and Linux, David Tenser has an article on his ...

An End of an Era?

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

The Mozilla Foundation has finally announced its plans for the Mozilla Suite (the combined browser/email client/IRC that evolved from Netscape). There will be no future 1.8 releases and only 1.7.x updates as needed. However on the other hand there is a group of folks that are organizing to continue work ...

FireFox CD

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

For some time I have been looking around for a downloadable CDROM of FireFox and ThunderBird that I can give away to my IE-challenged friends. I finally ran across just what the doctor ordered - a 37 MB downloadable CDROM called "FireMonger".