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David Bienvenu has announced that tab support has been added to the Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0a1 pre-nightly. This feature appears to be what many Thunderbird users have been calling for. If you want to try it out remember that this is still not even an official alpha release and Thunderbird 3 is very unstable at the moment.
While attempting to implement a Suckerfish dropdown recently I ran across a problem that causes the menu do not function properly in IE 7. Basically, if you change focus within the browser then move back across the dropdowns, the menus stick in place on the screen. Fortunately, ‘Built from Source’ has posted a simple solution to this problem.
Wired has an interesting interview with Mozilla Thunderbird lead engineer Scott MacGregor discussing the continued relevance of desktop email clients. I would like to have heard more about where Thunderbird is headed in areas such as with Penelope, the Eudora replacement version of Thunderbird, but nevertheless it is a good article about how Mozilla plans on dealing with the threat of web based email applications like Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
BetterExplained has a good quick quide to Debugging Web Applications with Firefox listing the extensions that can be used and how-to tips on using Mozilla Firefox to debug web pages.
For those like myself who did not attend the 2007 SXSW conference several of what I hear where the better presentations have been posted online. They include Brian Fling’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Mobile Web…but Were Afraid to Ask”, Mark Boulton’s and Richard Rutter’s Web Typography Sucks, and Khoi Vinh’s & Mark Boulton’s Grids are Good.
Matt Cutts, of Google fame, outlines three Gmail productivity tips to help us waste as little time as possible with email. The tips include: Mailing lists should skip the inbox, use Firefox and the Greasemonkey for persistent searches, and create a label for all external mail.
One of the most indispensable web developer Mozilla Firefox extensions, Firebug is now at version 1.0. Firebug places a wealth of development tools at your fingertips allowing you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript “live” in any web page.
