The folks over at mozilla.org have been busy:
New Firefox Release 1.0PR includes Live Bookmarks, which creates a bookmarks folder out of an RSS feed, and a really slick interface for finding text in a page. It does disable some older extensions, though, so look out. My main gripe is the loss of the bookmarks synchronizer. I hope the author is working on a new version.
New Thunderbird Release 0.8 includes the ability to have a single inbox for all POP3 subscriptions (that was always my main gripe), and sports an integrated RSS reader.
New Mozilla Release 1.7.3 includes security fixes.
I actually like separate inboxes. I thought I would hate it, but it really helps keep things separate. That's one the biggest reasons I use Thunderbird.
I really like the RSS reader in Thunderbird. It's very NewsGator-ish.
You can combine multiple blogs in a single folder -- so you can aggregate all your blogs in one folder (like most aggregators), or you can just combine related blogs in a single folder.
For instance, I have the Gadgetopia entries and comments coming into the same folder, so I get a look at everything happening on the site in the correct order.
Sadly, I can't find a way to display the feed name in the list of entries, so I can't tell what entry is from what blog. Also,it doesn't seem that you get a little notification when there are new messages.
Still, a good first effort.
The Live Bookmarks feature is really slick too, especially if you put the live bookmark in the personal toolbar - then you get an icon for the site with a dropdown for the stories. This is so cool that I turned the personal toolbar back on. I just can't figure out how to make the feed update automatically. Right now you just right-click the folder and issue a 'Refresh Live Bookmark' command, but that's not very sexy. There should be a way for it to do this itself, as well as to hightlight new entries.
