The .2 release of the Mozilla e-mail client is available for download.
It seems pretty nice (although it doesn't seem to have changed much from the mail client in netscape 4), but it's certainly no Mail.app replacement yet.
something that's left me scratching my head about the whole mozilla decentralization is the fact that these apps don't seem to be getting any smaller or faster (im talking about human performance, not rendering speed). i've tried the firebird nightlies and this latest thunderbird release, but i'm not impressed at all. firebird takes about as long to start up as mozilla does (about twice the startup time of camino, and 3-4 times that of safari) as does thunderbird, which takes about 8 times longer to load than Mail.app. but perhaps the greatest testament to the residual bloat is the size of these beasts, thunderbird alone is almost 33megs! for comparison, Mail.app is 2.8, or roughly one eleventh the size. i understand that the moz derivatives need lots of extra code to do all of their xul drawing and things like that, but how is it that these "smaller and more efficient" programs are just as slow and just as large as the origional?
It seems pretty nice (although it doesn't seem to have changed much from the mail client in netscape 4), but it's certainly no Mail.app replacement yet.
something that's left me scratching my head about the whole mozilla decentralization is the fact that these apps don't seem to be getting any smaller or faster (im talking about human performance, not rendering speed). i've tried the firebird nightlies and this latest thunderbird release, but i'm not impressed at all. firebird takes about as long to start up as mozilla does (about twice the startup time of camino, and 3-4 times that of safari) as does thunderbird, which takes about 8 times longer to load than Mail.app. but perhaps the greatest testament to the residual bloat is the size of these beasts, thunderbird alone is almost 33megs! for comparison, Mail.app is 2.8, or roughly one eleventh the size. i understand that the moz derivatives need lots of extra code to do all of their xul drawing and things like that, but how is it that these "smaller and more efficient" programs are just as slow and just as large as the origional?
