Mozilla Thunderbird is the new standalone mail client broken out of the Mozilla codebase. Although I’m running the nightly build (0.3a), it’s more stable than the old copy of Outlook 2000 (with all patches applied…) that I’ve been living on for the past few years. It’s looking like a great companion to Mozilla Firebird (standalone browser) and I may finally migrate off Outlook.
I’ve been wanting to leave Outlook for awhile because:
- It’s slow
- It’s insecure
- It’s frustrating
- It’s not cross-platform
So after wasting more hours trying to figure out why Outlook wasn’t working properly and promptly, I gave up and downloaded the tiny T-bird archive. Just unzip it and run thunderbird.exe, no install required. It seamlessly imported my Outlook contacts, and was quick to learn and use. So far my only complaint is that it uses a lot of RAM: ~35mb or more against Outlook’s 25mb. There’s also a little glitch in that it inserts “–” on a new line before inserting my signature file. But otherwise it has been fast, stable, predictable.
I haven’t figured out what to migrate my Calendar to yet, but I’m open to suggestions.
Get it from http://www.mozilla.org, and consider donating to them now that they’re free-standing.
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