Buttons: Thunderbird add-on of the day


Migrating to Thunderbird and want to customize it to the way you like? One thing that lots of people really like about Outlook is the option to close the original message window when you hit reply or forward. It helped keep the amount of windows open to a minimum, the same way that Firefox does with tabbed browsing. Thunderbird, however, does not have a similar option.

All this can be fixed with Buttons. With "Buttons!" you have a handful of new buttons to add to your toolbars. Three that you Outlook fiends might immediately want to add were "Reply!", "Reply All!" and "Forward!" to the message composition window. The exclamation points are to help you decipher between the add-on's buttons and the default Thunderbird buttons. The version of Buttons we've tried is on Thunderbird 2.0 Beta build 2; Far superior to 1.5. The interface is so much better and really close to the latest version of Firefox. This version of Buttons also has some great options as well as an archiving feature.

Tags: Add-On, Add-Ons, browsertips, Buttons, Mozilla, Thunderbird