Today is post 101 for me on this blog. Pretty neat.
I don’t know if you have noticed the sudden proliferation of “Firefox Power Tips for Mega Power Users” articles, mostly written by bloggers who downloaded Ff five minutes previous to writing about obvious features (TIP: Add a Live Bookmark by clicking on the orange icon).
Well, I have noticed them, and am preempting them all with my Thunderbird Super Secret Power Tips. For what it’s worth, here are some tweaks that have make my Tb experience better:
- Use a custom Thunderbird start page. In preferences (Mac: Thunderbird>Preferences, PC:Tools>Options) you can select a web page that will show up in the preference pane until you click a message. I have my start page bring up my PHPiCalendar week view. Handy.
- Access hidden options with the About Config extension. This extension adds the equivalent of the about:config list of preferences in Firefox. Once you get into the options you can get rid of the annoying quote line (Dork said…) in replies and much more.
- Protect your profile with a password. Yes, I know you can apply a master password in the options, but this only controls the use of saved passwords. If you’d like to defend your profile from launching without a password, you need to get the Profile Password extension.
- Toggle message grouping. Group your inbox (or any folder) into Today, Yesterday, This Week etc by simply pressing the “g” key.
Next time: screenshots, if you’re lucky.
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December 10th, 2004 at 3:28 pm
Way to go on all the posts! I’m going to have to try out these tricks, I’m a full time Thunderbird user now.
December 15th, 2004 at 10:19 am
Hi,
I like the profile password extention. It works great and fits my needs.
Thanks
Mark