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ThunderbirdSoftware

by Mozilla

Who uses, recommends or left Thunderbird, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

3 people

Justin Frankel
Software developer; wrote Winamp and now works on the REAPER digital audio workstation.
uses

Thunderbird for email.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the machines and dev tools behind REAPER.

2012-10-02·usesthis.com ↗

Andrei Alexandrescu
Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
uses

For email I use Thunderbird with the Nostalgy extension. For browsing I use mostly Chrome in conjunction with the goo.gl URL Shortener, Reddit Enhancement Suite, and Tampermonkey.

His Uses This interview, on his laptops, remote shells and writing toolchain.

2012-05-18·usesthis.com ↗

Colin Percival
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service.
uses

I use Thunderbird 2.0 for email – yes, I still download all of my email to my laptop.

His Uses This interview, on his laptop, servers and FreeBSD software stack.

2010-06-27·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.