Mozilla's Thunderbird 3 email client gets a release candidate
Thunderbird 3, the next version of Mozilla's email client, is almost ready for final release. Although it's almost a year behind schedule, the release candidate rolled out on Tuesday for all operating systems, and it delivers several significant new features, including tabs, better search, and Gmail-style archiving.
Since Thunderbird is a Mozilla product, plug-ins are another big selling point. Version 3 has a new add-on manager for themes and extensions. You can also now set up smart folders, for automated sorting of your messages. Thunderbird also integrates with Vista Search in Windows Vista and with Spotlight in OS X.
The final release of Thunderbird 3 should follow shortly after this release candidate. Going forward, Mozilla hopes to shorten Thunderbird's development cycle significantly, so maybe we won't see another year wait for the next major update.
[via CNET]
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motang said 10:07AM on 11-26-2009
I love the new automated email account setup. I really like Thunderbird 3 a lot and I use it on a daily basis on all my systems.
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minimal said 2:03PM on 11-26-2009
As a heavy Thunderbird 2.0 user version 3.0 is such a disappointment. They changed things that didn't need changing and added features I have no use for. Even new features like tabs were done half assed considering not every window can be put in a tab, i.e address book, compose e-mail, etc. The default theme is barely complete. I don't need anything fancy but even the old Qute theme blows it away esthetically and is more functional. I'd probably have to spend days hacking up a custom userChrome.css fixing all the UI nastiness. Anyway I could write a book on everything I didn't like about it so I'll end it here. I can't believe I'm going to say this but I can see myself switching to Outlook 2010 before I'd even consider Thunderbird 3.0 again.
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