Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The kick-off meeting for Thunderbird 3:
"Thunderbird 2 is quite sluggish, has poor asynchronous execution of
tasks, poor focus control, and annoying modal dialogs on error. What do
we do for version 3?"
...
The main reason why I went back to Thunderbird 2 is that version 3 eats
too much of my precious screen space, displaying useless information
such as the group a post was posted to. I couldn't find out how to get
the brief subject-poster one line display for post headers...
Sigh.
Andrei