Of Thunderbird and Camino
The whole Mozilla family of applications is a great boon to Internet users of the world. And they are great applications themselves. That said…
A couple nights ago, I decided to give Thunderbird a whirl (on my Mac). My reason for this was because I didn’t particularly liked the way Mail.app handled multiple accounts. I wanted the different mail accounts to be their own individual heirarchy. Thunderbird does this. Thunderbird as a whole seems to be a really solid app. It reminds me of Netscape’s mail “back in the day.” That said, it was extremely annoying that it has no integration with Address Book and the application just felt “heavier”. Mail.app on the other hand feeels light and lithe. I ended up going back to Mail.app.
Now for Camino. I’ve used Camino and Firefox under OS X. Safari too (obviously). I’ve always had random issues/annoyances with the various browsers. Safari being slower and having rendering incompatibilities. Firefox having no native widgets and no middle-click tab opening. Camino have UGLY tabs. But.. ha! … the nightly builds of Camino (to be 0.9) have decent looking tabs which solves my main complaint about Camino. So now I have all 3 of them installed, and Camino set as me default. I’ll give it a couple weeks and see how it goes.