[OT] Thunderbird 3 vs. 2

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:53:33 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> The kick-off meeting for Thunderbird 3:
>
> "Thunderbird 2 is quite sluggish, has poor asynchronous execution of  
> tasks, poor focus control, and annoying modal dialogs on error. What do  
> we do for version 3?"
>
> "Let's build on all that! We'll make Thunderbird 3 even more sluggish  
> even on the best of machines. Let them wait for second with an old  
> screen whenever they click on something."
>
> "Excellent! While we're at it, let's make the selection colors such that  
> the user never knows where the focus is. That, combined with the  
> slugishness of the UI, will go a great job at confusing people."
>
> "And how about this - let's even insert large delays at random while the  
> user is typing an email. There's nothing better than typing out of sync  
> with the screen!"
>
> "Awesome! To make the deal sweeter, we'll replace the useful filter  
> functionality with a full-blown search. That would require us to index  
> all emails in the background thus making things even slower, and will  
> confuse the heck out of everyone."
>
> "Go Thunderbird 3!"
>
>
> Sigh.
>
> Andrei

If would recommend using Opera. If not as a default Web-browser, at least  
as a Mail-agent.
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