PabloHalpern

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Name PabloHalpern
User since Oct. 21, 2008
Number of add-ons developed 0 add-ons
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My Reviews

Thunderbird Conversations

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

The key feature I was looking for was to have all of my conversation, including sent messages and deleted messages, available whenever a new message came in for a conversation. This saves me from having to keep messages lying around in my inbox just because someone *might* respond to a previous message and continue the conversation. This plugin delivers on that front. Yeah!

What I don't like is the way it radically changes the UI. The Gmail UI that it imposes on you is not bad, but it clashes with Thunderbird's existing UI. For example, I *like* TB's tree view of conversations better than Gmail's flat view. The changed interface also makes it hard to find the reply-all and forward buttons (it actually DISABLES TB's native buttons for conversations with more than one message in them). It would be nice if it gave you a choice: classic TB vs. Gmail interface. The developer clearly spent a lot of time working on the interface; sorry to be so negative about it, but if I wanted Gmail, I'd use their web interface instead of TB.

This extension also slows down TB, a lot. Whether that slowdown is due to the conversation indexing engine or the UI, I don't know, but it is irritating.

I'm keeping it turned on for now, until I get used to the trade-offs. We'll see whether I keep it on.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1.1). 

Folder Account

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Just want I needed. Let's me reply to mailing-list messages using my normal email address instead of the special one I use to receive the messages.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (3.1). 

Search Perl Documentation

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Perldoc is a great resource for Perl programmers. This search add-on works flawlessly.

Expression Search / GMailUI

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I really like what this extension does to my search syntax. I also like the keyboard shortcut for archiving messages. My biggest complaint is that the archive folder is not configurable on a per-account basis. If you have some Gmail and some non-Gmail accounts, it is impossible to find an archive folder name that works for both.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.6). 

Dictionary.com

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This is a great dictionary site. It shows results from several different sources. This search tool is trivial and has been around for a long time. I don't know why it is "experimental". A companion tool for thesaurus.com is available at www.searchplugins.net.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (20081012).