Thundertray 0.8 Beta

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (15 votes)

BETA (December 21, 2003)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 20,567 downloads

Thundertray is a tiny application that allows you to launch and minimize the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client from the Windows system tray.

  • Publisher

    protonfx.com

  • Homepage

    Thundertray

  • Latest Changes

    - Global windows hotkey for showing/hiding Thunderbird

    - Thunderbird window can now always be shown in a maximized state

    - Single click hide/show

    - Abbreviated command-line arguments

    - Various internal improvements and fixes

Reviews of Thundertray

  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    Nikkie

    Reviewing 0.8 Beta (Jun 1, 2005)

    the program below is only for minimizing and it cant start up with the computer etc.. its not really the same as the plugin above ...

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    DarkHound

    Reviewing 0.8 Beta (Mar 30, 2005)

    ==Update from the creator's website==
    05/13/2004: Some news
    Well, it has been rather quiet here for the last few months hasn't it? Unfortunately there is not much (good) news to report. For starters the Thundertray (Thunderbird minimize-to-tray) project is now officially dead. There will be no new versions and all download links have been removed from the site.
    ==Comment==
    There is an extension that does the same thing now. No external program needed. You can find it here:
    http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/
    ==Original Review==
    For starters ThunderTray is not an email client, it's a utility that allows Mozilla Thunderbird to minimize to the tray. (Functionality that should be standard anymore imho) It does exactly what it say it will, the only complaint I have is with the latest version and the "launchshow" command. It seems to only work about 80 percent of the time, and the other 20 percent Thunderbird hangs and I have to kill it in the task manager. Despite this, I still give ThunderTray a 5.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    Pizda

    Reviewing 0.8 Beta (Jul 30, 2004)

    Nice mail client, but where the hell is the archiving feature? I need to periodically archive my mail from the IMAP server (to save space, obviously) and I can't find it! Does it exist at all? Until this feature is implemented, I'm back to Outlook... Other than that, the client is perfect. Developers: Archiving!!!

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    L06@N

    Reviewing 0.8 Beta (Dec 27, 2003)

    A little buggy with the last version, but this release (w/ the newest stable or nightly of Thunderbird) works very well and so far w/o problems.
    Keep up the good work!

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    rob@sn0n.com

    Reviewing 0.7.7 Beta (Dec 13, 2003)

    it does what it says... ill give it that.. but its buggy in making thunderbird show again.. and hide.. its faster for me to close and open it then hide and show it.. maybe its just me.. but.. yea..

Discuss Thundertray

  1. May 15, 2009 - 3:12 PM
    ethnopunk

    Where is the Ubuntu Linux version of this very cool addition to Thunderbird? About 40 million people are asking the same question.