Initial support for tabbed e-mail in today’s trunkbuild

I landed my patch for tabbed e-mail last night, so it’s in today’s nightly trunk build. There are lots of issues with it, but we decided to land it so that other people can improve it. (If you don’t use tabs, you won’t encounter the issues.) Shortly after I landed it, Scott figured out how to make the tabs look like they do in Firefox, which is a big improvement.

A few known issues – the close button doesn’t work (though context click | close tab does work), strange things happen with messages open in a tab if you switch the 3-pane layout, and the context menu on tabs gets confused if the tab is not selected. But we should be able to fix the issues pretty quickly and add new capabilities. In particular, I’d like to add some prefs to make double click open messages&folders in a new tab instead of a new window.

4 Responses to “Initial support for tabbed e-mail in today’s trunkbuild”

  1. [...] Bienvenu has announced that support the ability to open messages in tabs has been added to Thunderbird in-development [...]

  2. A screenshot would be nice…

  3. hmm says:

    Great job so far Bienvenu.

    I just switched over TB3 and this feature just rocks, basic as it is now.

  4. STTEPHEN says:

    WHEN WILL “THUNDERBIRD” (3) BE OUT? PLEASE LET ME KNOW SOON, THANKS.

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