Anyone who has used Thunderbird sees that its address book leaves much to be desired. For its addressbook, .MSF files, history files, etc, Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird all use a Indexing database called Mork.

I would like to punch the person who invented this *directly* in the face.

Once I figure this out, there are some cool apps to be written here. The first is "Mail you thought you deleted, but really didn't"

Mork:: Or, How I learned to hate Mozilla File formats