tabs for Thunderbird 2.0
A user of one of the "Thunderbird 1.5 with tabs" builds I made a couple years ago recently asked me if it would be possible to update the patch for Thunderbird 2.0. After some wrangling, I got the patch to apply and behave itself in my testing, and I've spun some tab-enabled builds of 2.0.0.6 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Note that the Thunderbird developers are implementing a different version of tabs for Thunderbird 3 over in bug 218999. So I won't be porting this patch to the trunk. But if you can't wait for that release to get your tabs, these builds may be useful to you.
To open a message in a tab, context-click it and select "Open message in new tab" from the context menu. To make this the default behavior when opening messages, set Preferences > Advanced > General > "Open new messages in" to "A new message tab".
p.s. congrats to Thunderbird on the new organization! I'm looking forward to great things from it.
Note that the Thunderbird developers are implementing a different version of tabs for Thunderbird 3 over in bug 218999. So I won't be porting this patch to the trunk. But if you can't wait for that release to get your tabs, these builds may be useful to you.
To open a message in a tab, context-click it and select "Open message in new tab" from the context menu. To make this the default behavior when opening messages, set Preferences > Advanced > General > "Open new messages in" to "A new message tab".
p.s. congrats to Thunderbird on the new organization! I'm looking forward to great things from it.
posted by Myk at 5:06 AM
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