Thunderbird 2 Released
“More powerful …… The new Thunderbird comes with numerous new features.”
Thunderbird 2.0 is a major leap forward for the Mozilla email client and boasts much improved performance as well as some great new features like support for message tagging, a customizable folder pane and one click integration with popular webmail services like GMail and .Mac.
While many people have moved to web-based email services such as GMail, Thunderbird still comes in handy for making sure you have a local backup of your mail. With the new GMail integration features all you need to provide is a username and password, Thunderbird will take care of the server and port information for you, making backups a snap.
New in Thunderbird 2
Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.- Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2’s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability and maximize screen real estate.
- Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
- Advanced Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
- Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services: Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.
- Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
- Improved New Mail Notification Alerts: New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message preview text.
- Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
- Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
- Find As You Type: Finds and highlights message text as you type.
- Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
- Updates to the Extension System: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
- New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
- Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista.
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Pingback by Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Released « Matsu’s World: The One Less Traveled — April 19, 2007 @ 4:27 am
I’ve only recently noticed the number of good extensions out for Thunderbird, but some like the encryption one are useless unless the other side uses them too. That said, there is no reason why extensions in Thunderbird can’t be just as big an asset as they are in Firefox. It’s time somebody made a top 5 Thunderbird extensions list too.
Comment by Devang — April 19, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
thanks for your article
Comment by Toms — April 19, 2007 @ 4:50 pm
I am planning on trying out this version and see how it stands againt KMail that I use on KDE. Then I will decide with which to stick, or wait for Thunderbird 3.0.
Comment by E@zyVG — April 19, 2007 @ 8:42 pm