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Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

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  1. I blame the cold weather by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    because hell just froze over. First we get Chrome for Linux, then Thunderbird 3. What next, Duke Nukem Forever?

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    1. Re:I blame the cold weather by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

      Side note: does anyone else think it's suspicious that both Chrome for Linux and Thunderbird 3 just happen to have been released on the same day that Wired started taking submissions for their vaporware of the year article?

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  2. A big step up from TB 2 for linux by rmcd · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been using Thunderbird 3 in beta for the last few months on an ubuntu system. TB 3 doesn't look dramatically different than TB 2, but the performance difference is *enormous*. TB 2 would crash frequently, it would periodically use all resources while it did heaven knows what, and Gmail IMAP was a disaster.

    TB 3 is responsive, hardly ever crashes (perhaps twice in 3 months), search is *way* improved, and it finally feels like first-rate software. My hat is off to the Thunderbird team.

  3. Conversation view != threads by Mountaineer1024 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every single time I see this discussion, someone pipes up to say "but thunderbird DOES do threads!".
    That it does. And that has absolutely no bearing on the discussion at hand.
    Conversation view as provided by gmail gives you a single page for each entire conversation AND it inserts your replies online as appropriate.
    There's several other features that make conversation view work so well, but you'll have to actually try gmail to understand what we are talking about.

  4. Re:Tabs by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 5, Funny

    a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep

    What about for messages I don't want to keep but still want to delete? Does it handle those?

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  5. Re:Great by rmcd · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should try one of these:

    http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/

    I've found Lightning betas to be solid and have been using them for several months (I use GCalDaemon to sync with Google Calendar). I'd back up first just to be safe.

  6. Re:Tabs by Demetris · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to Options > Advanced, and click the Config Editor button.

    Type hide in the Filter box to find the mail.tabs.autoHide preference.

    Double-click on mail.tabs.autoHide to toggle the preference.

    Cheers!