Great! Hope to see localized builds soon. I found one or two localized builds in the FTP, but no direct link from the homepage.

Asa, don't you think the drill should be "put it on the servers and then shout it out to the world that it's out" instead of "shout it out to the world and make users annoyed when they get a broken link?"

There no 1.0 folder under releases in FTP

It's there already... took just a few minutes after me complaining.. I feel bad :) sry

Very nice. Dl'ed without any problem.

Kudos Mozilla ~~~

Asa, is this supposed to be a low-key release? Me thinks, this excellent product deserves more like a firefox-noise !!

I like it.

Ok. now what are the reasons to download firefox and thunderbird when Mozilla Suite is avaiable?

We need like a table or something to help people choose what is best to use.

*hugs*

Larfnarf:
Firefox and Thunderbird are speedy products with stripped down, efficient interfaces. Mozilla Suite (commonly referred to as Seamonkey) is a monolithic product with a very complicated userinterface (basically the same one NS had back in the day.) Some power users like all the options it gives them, but a lot of people think it's bloated and slow. It also lacks a lot of the newer product's customization options, and it's kinda ugly.

Summary: Suite offers brute power, while the Fox/Bird duo is elegant and efficient.

nentuaby: Where are the speed differences? They're claimed everywhere, but I simply can't see them. Even on my 400MHz P-II Linux box, there is no difference between Fx/Tb and the suite. On my mac, there is a big difference between Camino and all other Mozilla products, but no difference between Seamonkey and Fx/Tb.

And for the UI: there is a big difference between Fx and Seamonkey, but Tb and Mailnews are mostly the same, despite Tb having RSS capabilities.

Another point is integration: there should be more integration between Fx and Tb. E.g., it is still not possible to do a middle-click on a link in Tb to open the link in a new Browser tab.

I've updated Portable Thunderbird to the 1.0 release. For those that are unfamiliar, Portable Thunderbird is a fully functional package of Thunderbird optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Portable Thunderbird

NOTE: MozDev mirrors take some time to update. It should be on all download servers by 11am New York time.

daniel, if you set Firefox (Thunderbird) as the default browser (news/mail client), clicking on a link in Thunderbird (Firefox) will open it in Firefox (Thunderbird).

For me, the only missing "integration" is the shortcut bar (the button-left bar with buttons like those in the Quick Launch).

minghing: I know that, but when I click on a link in Seamonkey mailnews, left-click and middle-click are handled differently: Left-click uses the default setting (new window or same window) while middle-click uses a new tab.

daniel: In firefox 1.0, under preferences->advanced->tabbed browsing, you can set new windows from external applications to open in new tabs

Don't know if this is a bug but while I right-click to customize TB's button bar the window shows up as just a title bar. I can grab the bottom and drag it out or maximize this but it sure seems sketchy to me.

I installed 1.0 over a 0.9 install without first uninstalling. Just FYI. Great work otherwise and I'm excited to propose the University I work at standardize on FF/TD rather than the Mozilla suite.

Cheers to all involved! ~ Kevin

The thing I don't understand is why Thunderbird 1.0 for Windows still uses a Qute-styled theme, but Thunderbird for Mac uses a theme that largely matches Pinstripe for Firefox.

I was really hoping to have Thunderbird's default theme match Firefox's default theme, which is much nicer than Qute. Thunderbird looks SO good on my powerbook, it's rather disappointing looking on Windows.

Hehe, my Thunderbird 0.8 setup was 5.75 MB, the Thunderbird 1.0 setup was 5.73 MB.
Good work in the optimization area too, I guess. :-)

Um, the link in the right of the top "Thunderbird 1.0" panel at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ is linking to 0.9 (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.9/Thunderbird Setup 0.9.exe). I'm glad you guys managed not to do that when Firefox was released :P

James, I don't see that. Are you sure your page isn't cached or something?

--Asa

Acetastic news! I've even managed to convert my mum to Thunderbird and Firefox, which is nice :-)

Asa, FYI: I had assumed that the page was current because it read 'Thunderbird 1.0' instead of 0.9, but after Ctrl+F5 I saw http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird&os=win&lang=en-US. Sorry about the confusion; thanks for checking.

Middle-button click on URL in thunderbird should open a tab in Firefox.

I'm using Fedora Core 3, with Firefox-1.0PR and thunderbird 1.0. I've also set my default settings in the desktop to Firefox and thunderbird. My middle click in thunderbird still does not work. Am I missing something?