I know there is no ActiveX support is a big thing for firefox, but personally i don't think mozilla should go and suck MS's cock, business apps should develop tools will run on all browsers.
i am looking forwards to the 1.0 release of thunderbird, i do not like the fact it doesn't support / at least doesn't work well with multiple outgoing mail servers. it's a bit frustrating.
Let me know what your opinions are!

what's the point in using multiple outgoing servers? I mean, even if you do use one, you can set your _sender address_ to different ones. it's just the box (server) you use to send the mail on, to other servers - so does it really matter to you through which computer the mail is first sent? as far as I understand, it has nothing important to do with sending mail. or if it has, then you perhaps ought to think of some else method of communicating

I don't really find a good reason to use multiple outgoing servers; why not use the one that suits you best?

and how did thunderbird get involved in this thread, as the topic only dealth with firefox? anyway...imo firefox is quite good, and I really don't think they should go for the activeX support. there are other methods, and activeX is not the best imo. others can develop, too. plus, I don't need it the main reason of course. thunderbird then? I love it. except that it needs a bit time to start up...pine rocks on that matter the only weak side of it is that showing html/image-containing messages is a bit impossible..anyway, I'd like if they'd make thunderbird a bit lighter. and whatever they do, I really really really hope they do NOT make either of their "small" apps any bigger or slower.

I found that Thunderbird worked fine with multiple SMTP servers, only I also found out by calling my webhost one day when there was a problem, that preferred practice is to use my ISP's SMTP server! So I obediently switched back to that one.

I'd been using my webhost's server because it was much faster. Kind of disappointed to find out that was frowned on.

I would like to see Download Manager work properly.
When I press Pause, download doesn't stop right away, and Resume doesn't work either.

for Bouncer's question, yes i do know you're modify the mail heading to make it look like whatever you want, however, thunderbird didnt allow you to do that on the fly. Reason people me need connect to multiple mail server is that we do have different identities in different social settings, i am a student while working at some companies, i'd like to separate my emails from work and school, also i don't like to mix my personal emails from the two above. i'd like to send mails as the "right identities" if you know what I mean.
yes thunderbird did work for multiple mail servers for me at once, but if you remove one mail server and add it again (just add the outgoing mail server) it didn't work for me. There might be something I didn't know about, so if you do, let me know.
yes I definitely agree with that they shouldn't make it any "bigger", that's the main reason mozilla separated the browser and mail client (firefox and thunderbird) instead of boundling them all together. that's a smart move.

When I had two SMTP servers (via the "Advanced" tab in the "outgoing server" settings dialogue box), one of them had to be "default" and I made my own webhost's server that, till I was told that wasn't preferred practice. I never had both the SMTP servers available at the same time--that may be what you're looking for, and if so I doubt that Thunderbird can do that. I would have to change the default from one to the other. That worked.

Now I just have my relatively pokey ISP mail server on the list.

I still get random crashes. And with every release it seems to get slower.

Might just be me tough.

Well, I doubt that it's you, but something might need fixing on your system, because when I ran 9.1 I didn't have any trouble with Firefox, and also not with 9.2 or, so far, with 10.1. It may have crashed once or twice in the past year but that's all. And it's always really fast.

I am using a custom-built (bought used) desktop computer with old Asus Model MS6309 motherboard, Pentium III 650 Hz processor, 384 Mb ram. Nothing exotic or cutting-edge certainly! And Firefox just blazes along. It does take five or six seconds to load, but I generally leave it running all day. And 5 or 6 seconds don't bother me anyway.

Very seldom do I find a website that it can't display correctly--and if it doesn't it's most likely because the site is tuned for Internet Explorer's non-standard needs.