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My Favorite Thunderbird Extensions

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 21, 2006 11:44 AM
Actually, I was in the 'market' for a Find extension that works like Find in Firefox, and got sidetracked when I saw this article.

So in the spirit of sharing, here are my favorite T-bird extensions:

1. Auto Copy. Highlight text in an e-mail and have it automatically copied to the Clipboard. (There's a similar extension in FF.) It's a huge time saver.

2. Maximize Message Pane. I use the classic 3 pane T-bird layout (b/c I haven't sprung for multiple monitors... yet) and sometimes I get long e-mails that are easier to scan when they go from the top to the bottom of the screen instead of just halfway. This extension gives me a keyboard shortcut that toggles closing/opening the Subject/Sender pane.

3. Enigmail. A nicely integrated plugin that allows you to use GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) to encrypt/decrypt messages. This way you can save yourself some time by not having to encrypt/decrypt attachments separately from your e-mails.

Now back to my original search.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)

_KJH
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