Monday, January 29, 2007

Thunderbird 2 (beta 2)


I did not try the first beta; thought it might be too unstable, but I downloaded and installed the second one 2 days ago. First thing, but that was expected, long ago, I loose my favorite theme, BlackJapan, just like with Firefox 2.0. That was for the downside. the rest is just new stuff, and good stuff. One single window for extensions and themes, like in Firefox 2, including an easier update of both. Better junk management, and most of all: tagging! yes, you can now apply a custom tag to any message. The search box is also improved: it's a "get results as you type" search. Last thing, you can now configure a gmail account more "easily", that is for those who were not able to type pop 995 and smtp 465 manually (lol). You understood I find this one useless, although it demonstrates one more time how close Mozilla and Google are getting to each other. And I certainly won't complain about it. Thunderbird 2, although still in a beta stage, is already a very good email client, and what actually counts, it's still better than 1.5.

Here is a link for the release notes, and one for the download.
(available for windows,mac,linux)

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