As the release notes point out, Shredder Alpha 1 is built on Gecko 1.9, the engine running Firefox 3.
Some other highlights:
- New add-on manager that allows direct installation of Thunderbird add-ons and customizations
- Mac OS X version is a native Cocoa application
- Improved message searching
Again, be aware that this is a developer preview and is certainly not ready for prime time. We had issues getting IMAP or POP support working with any of our Google Apps accounts on the OS X version of Shredder Alpha 1 and the app was kind of crashy. Still, we were impressed with what we could see and look forward to future developments.
If you feel ready to give the newest alpha a try, you can download it for your platform of choice here.
[via Mozilla Links]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-15-2008 @ 7:39AM
Dagur said...
I appreciate all the work that's being done under the hood but I'm still a little disappointed in the lack of new features.
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5-17-2008 @ 4:00PM
Stuart Halliday said...
Me too.
As yet it is still impossible to get Thunderbird to sort a folder to descending and threaded by default.
Every time I have to alter my TB set up I've got to put up with TB insisting to re-sort my 50 folders to Ascending!
Seemingly they 'forgot' to add sorting to the range of configurable options in Gecko despite people like myself submitting bug reports.
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7-02-2008 @ 1:34AM
Christopher Sinclair said...
I don't know if you genuinely are unable to find the solution for yourself or you are lazy. Anyway, if you would like to change the default sort order go to the advanced configuration settings, find mailnews.default and change the sort order from 1 to 2
7-02-2008 @ 1:39AM
Christopher Sinclair said...
Also, why is there no option in the comments for people to link (their name) to their own websites? I am happy to comment to help people out, but it would be nice to also have the option of linking to my website without posting it in the actual comment.
http://blogger-off.com
*I know this comment has nothing to do with the story above. Feel free to delete it if you think it is irrelevant.
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