Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate Ready for Download
Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate Ready for Download
Posted 11/26/2009 at 9:12am
| by Paul Lilly
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Just last month, Mozilla announced it would keep its Thunderbird 3.0 email client in Alpha form because "calling something a beta is likely to trigger a bunch of extra press attention we're not yet in a position to deal with." Well, Mozilla's now ready and has pushed its email client into Release Candidate status.
The RC is a public preview and intended for developer testing and community feedback, Mozilla says. Mozilla added that it's looking specifically for feedback on the client's new search tools, tabbed email, message archiving, new mail account setup wizard, and improvements for developers.
There are quite a few changes Mozilla made to the new email client, all of which are outlined in the Release Notes here. Be sure to give it a glance before grabbing the download here.
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Jesterace
November 27, 2009 at 8:11am
It's nice to see Mozilla didn't abandon Thunderbird. 2.0 felt very dated as it hasn't really changed much from it's origins as it looked and felt like the old netscape mail client built into navigator from back in the day. I don't use extension for thunderbird so there's really no compatibility issues for me other than the theme I was using.
Vano
November 27, 2009 at 1:13am
The new version is absolutely awesome.
Unfortunately most extensions are not yet compatible.
Until "Lightning" become compatible I'm kind of stuck with TB2 :(
I Jedi
November 26, 2009 at 4:34pm
I have installed the newest addition of Thunderbird... I am a long time user, and hope that this will be another great update for the Thunderbird email client.
quickone
November 26, 2009 at 11:42am
FINALLY!!!!
~~The difference between insanity and genius is merely succes~~
DBsantos77
November 26, 2009 at 11:31am
It's good that the project is still alive. I'm really waiting to have Gcal work with thunderbird and not get a MODIFICATION_FAILED error every time, other than that, TB rocks!
-Santos
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