Great! More ways to feed the email addiction. LOL And, this comes after the previous posting about avoiding checking emails on the evenings and weekends.

fushark

I just use it to check my college email account without having to keep the tab open or anything. (UC Berkeley calmail system).

HaloZero

i use the reel new media toolbar for my email. posts new emails as they arrive and is very fast logging you into your gmail,hotmail,whatever email account

registereduser1946

I'm confused by this. I mean it's a neat tool and hats off to the developer, but what does this give you that Firefox & Thunderbird don't? And if you really want a combined browser and email client why not just use Seamonkey?

Is it just that it's smaller and more lightweight?

mb

This would change everything on how people do email. This feature should be built into Firefox, and boy it would make it that more popular. This would give you another great option on what kind of email client you could use. If you remember MSN Explorer, at the top it showed you how many unread emails you had, how many msn contacts you had signed in etc, well this is somewhat what Firefox needs.

I don't like using email clients to check my email, I like using my browser, and if something like this got built in, it would make it easy and productive. I keep reading Firefox is trying to make Thunderbird better, so why not build some of that engine into Firefox and allow you to read emails inside your browser, and then if your not online and you compose an email, it would save it it into Thunderbird and then it would email automatically when you get connected to the internet again. I like this idea of a script, and I believe it needs to be built into Firefox.

I think Firefox needs to have a competition and have users vote on what extensions should be built into Firefox, this would greatly help its popularity and make things easier for people.

ma5t3rw1tt

Very similiar to MB, above. It's neat, and I like the idea of an online client, but I'm not sure how this beats either gmail or yahoo mail's web applications. Both have good keyboard shortcuts, and with the combination of Yahoo's drag-and-drop or gmail's auto-saving drafts and tagging, I think I'd be more inclined to forward my e-mail to either of those first.

Is there something I'm missing?

jstahly

I think what's interesting about this is how significant the move is toward having EVERYTHING we want/need rolled into our browser.

Which sorta moves us back towards the whole Netscape-all-in-one concept Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird was designed to break free of, no?

I think, hot on the announcement that Mozilla's spun off its mail/IM/"communicator" division, too many people use their computers in too many different ways for any one system to appeal to a mass of users; I've tried Thunderbird with Lighting included and didn't like it -- I prefer a distinct calendaring program. Ditto for using calendar.google.com as my only calendaring: it's somehow not as facile for me as switching to the other app (even with keyboard-based tab switching).

But, as the comments above obviously support, there are those for whom this service is divine: those are people who prefer using their email program's web-based offerings vs. IMAPping their email to Thunderbird (or whatever).

Based on this, I'm more in support of continuing to leave Firefox & Thunderbird & WhateverComesNext as extensible as possible but as clean as possible: let us bloat as we wish but leave the underpinnings to their purest function: web. email. calendar.

gyffes

@gyffes: 100% agree with your last statment. I don't care if Mozilla wants to take the Netscape route, I might even use it, but I always appreciate a stripped down client that I can add onto as I please. Sometimes I just use Portable Firefox, because I like low footprint software. I'm just super glad they don't build this kind of thing in like Internet Explorer would.

Busybyeski

Nice, reminds me of Opera's E-Mail-Client.

Henry

I agree that I don't really see the need for an extension like this. If you really want your email to be integrated with your browser like this, why aren't you using Seamonkey?

HeartBurnKid

Perhaps it was just something to "try out" and say, "wooo hoo I did it" ? Cause yea, I like going the "designated application" route....

I don't need my calendar, e-mail, browser all in one.

What's next...? our Media Player...? Errr, nevermind, that's FoxyTunes...lol. Our CD burner...?

This is what I like about Firefox, it's slimmed down, "to the point" - and allows users to install what they want uf tget deem it necessary.

Though I don't know, I'm hoping Firefox3 fixes some of the CPU/mem leak problems, cause yea, I've witnessed some "Addon Hell" with Firefox...after installing, oh, weatherbug, adblockplus, delicious, google toolbar, a theme or two, greasemonkey (+ scripts..lol) - woohoo, Firefox was no longer very speedy.

ahoier

How do I configure it to read my Hotmail?

I tried everything combination and it gives me an error everytime.

I can access it through OE but OE does not work at my work.

Thanks.

DJBuzz

@jstahly:
Its smaller then a fulltime email client..If you worry about space because its an extension
It blends with firefox and doesnt require you to run multiple programs
but its local so you dont need to leave mail.yahoo on a tab or wait for it to load everytime because its on your computer
what your missing is the speed and size and closeness advantage because its always on if your always on the web in firefox
and seamonkey misses some firefox features namely an easily manageable search bar thats already on the screen
and firefox extension support

atomic1fire