Betterbird improves your workflow and saves you time. Here are some examples from the message compose window:
- You've been working in a document and want to send it out to a colleague? Just pick it from the Recent File(s) menu.
- You have a Windows shortcut on your desktop to a document you want to send out? Just drag the shortcut onto the compose window, and it will attach the target file automatically.
- You can still show attachments "on top" in the header area, as it used to be, rather than beneath the message body.
- There is a link in the body of your message you want to check. Due to restrictions in the Mozilla platform code, you can't click on it, but you can open the link in the browser via the context menu.
Those four features don't exist in Thunderbird, although requests date back to 2005.
Add-ons are a great way to enhance the functionality of the compose window. We recommend the following:
- Our own ThunderHTMLedit to fix some quirks in the HTML the Mozilla editor produces.
- Signature Switch to manage and switch multiple signatures.
- LanguageTool to check grammar and spelling.
- QuickText to insert text blocks into your messages. We don't promote pre-canned replies, but we support reducing repetitive insertion tasks.
- Mail Merge, if you need to stay in touch with many people.