Finally got around to downloading and installing (during a conference call) Thunderbird 1.0. Quick, painless install. Had two extensions (Quote Colors and Buttons!) I had to manually upgrade, but that was pretty trivial.
The only immediately visible change of significance between T’bird 0.8 (what I was on) and 1.0 is that you can do grouped sorts (like in Outlook 2003). That’s nice.
Once I run it for a while and it proves stable, I’ll upgrade Margie’s home machine.
I discovered, in so doing, that MozBackup has been discontinued. This was a clever little widget to do intelligently named zip files of the profile directories for Thunderbird and Firefox. Given the snarkiness of the comments about its demise (“Well, if folks are having problems with profiles being corrupted, they shouldn’t be relying on a backup and restore tool, they should file a bug report!” and “Well, *I* don’t have a problem digging down to the profile directory and making a manual backup, so I don’t see why someone would need a program that does it nicely and neatly for you!”), I can understand why the author has dropped the app, but while the process can be fairly simply done manually, it was a nice tool, and I regret seeing someone driven away due to ivory tower myopia.
UPDATE: As always, I’m on the leading edge of innovation! Not!