If you receive a link in a email message and you don't want to open it in your web browser The ThunderBrowse Thunderbird extension allows you to view it in Thunderbird.

The ThunderBrowse Thunderbird extension adds a URL Bar to the Thunderbird interface, thus allowing you to be able to view websites without having to open browsers.

Easy to use and it's unobtrusive because it doesn't require you to add any more buttons to your toolbar, as it adds to the message preview pane, without taking up much space. ThunderBrowse also comes with commands to make ThunderBrowsing easier!

Here are some key features of "ThunderBrowse":

· Allows you to right click a link and choose to "Visit in Browser" to visit it Firefox or IE. Or whatever browser you specify (see options)
· Tabbed browsing support
· Works with GET and POST web forms
· Supports logins (with CS Lite)
· Browser history (for the Back and Forward button) and refresh abilities
· Supports Javascript (check the options to see how to enable it). The setting is smart. ThunderBrowse disables javascript when it detects loading of emails and enables javascript only for websites.
· Contains an autosuggest/autocomplete function
· Install Thunderbird Extensions directly!
· Hotkeys to control going back, forward, search [Control F] and to refresh. Check about:commands to see the key combos
· Full screen mode (or maximum browsing mode), so you don't have to just browse in that tiny area (customize the toolbar and add the window icon).
· Collapsible bar (you might need to customize the toolbar and add the thunderbrowse logo)
· Language support for English, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, German, Bulgarian, Slovak, Polish, Danish, Brazilian, Indonesian, French, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish
· Drag and drop loading of links and new tabs
· Easy RSS reading, view the page and any links within ThunderBrowse
· Mouse click commands (left depends, middle click opens external browser or tab depending on settings, right context menu)
· Contains search commands for popular websites [flickr, google, wikipedia, yahoo] so you can search easily (documentation is in about:commands)
· Create your own custom shortcuts and commands
· Bookmark your favorite sites for easy access.
· Extension options for easy customization of your ThunderBrowse install (tbit:options). For a complete explanation of the options see http://thunderbrowse.com/help/options.html
· Quick access menu and easy disable browsing (see http://thunderbrowse.com/statusbar.html)
Works with the following protocols: mailto:, whois:, chrome:, http:, mailbox:, file:, news:, snews:, pop:, source:, view-source:, https:, javascript:, addbook:,custombutton:,resource:
· Ability to browse and open links in external windows (Control W), message windows, and in the main Thunderbird window.

Requirements:

· Thunderbird: 1.5 - 3.0b1

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixes url problems, encoding, UI and style issues, includes support for TB3.0b3pre, fixes cookie conflict in TB3.0b3pre and much more!