Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 1 Now Available for Download
Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 1 Now Available for Download
Posted 03/12/2010 at 8:41am
| by Paul Lilly
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Mozilla this week made available the first beta of Thunderbird 3 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Codenamed "Lanikai," the latest release introduces a few changes to the open-source email client, many of which take place under the hood.
Built on top of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform (the same engine powering Firefox 3.6), Mozilla says you can expect improvements in stability and memory, fixes to improve upgrading from Thunderbird 2, fixes for auto complete, tabs, and activity manager, and several design improvements and corrections to the interface.
As with any beta software, you should expect a few bugs, and there are a handful of known issues in Thunderbird 3. Kaspersky's Anti-Spam extension is disabled, for instance, and you may run into some SMTP issues.
If you still want to give it a try, you can download a copy right here.
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bjoswald
March 13, 2010 at 1:03am
Looks like a nice list of updates/changes, but it's still not enough to convince me to switch from Evolution.
Keith E. Whisman
March 12, 2010 at 9:36am
I actually use Outlook 2007 and love it but I use Tbird on my linux distros and love it there as well.
Tbird sure has come a long way and the price has always been perfect.
Caboose
March 12, 2010 at 10:18am
I'm using Outlook 2010 (beta) on my home PC. I kinda like it a bit better than Thunderbird which I ran for years! At work though, it's Outlook or nothing. Exchange doesn't seem to play nice with Thunderbird...
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Joe D
March 12, 2010 at 9:33am
I gotta say that Thunderbird is a better client then Outlook or anything else out there. Just goes to show that Mozilla is better then Microsoft........of course.
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big_montana
March 12, 2010 at 10:33am
Be careful, your bias is showing. I like Thunderbird, it is lacking in many features that Outlook provides, such as an integrated calendar, a fully functional Help that actually works and provides useful information. T-bird is useful for Linux computers and for those who do not want to put out for the mroe expensive office versions that include outlook, outlook is also easier to back up, restore and migrate to a different computer your messages, contacts, calendar, tasks, journal, notes than in thunderbird which is a royal pain to do.
murixbob
March 12, 2010 at 1:43pm
Mozilla has its own calendar software that supports events and tasks and can read .ics and .ical files. It is called Mozilla Sunbird. There is an add-on for Thunderbird called Lightning that intregrates Sunbird into Thunderbird so it has tasks and event functionality.
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