Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Released, Finally

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67416

    Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Released, Finally

    Phoronix: Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Released, Finally

    At long last, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 has been officially released. Thunderbird 2.0 was released about two and a half years ago (April 2007) and while Mozilla Firefox has sped along with a number of releases in the 3.x series, Thunderbird has not...

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  • BlackStar
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2007
    • 2103

    #2
    Is it me, or does Mozilla treat Thunderbird as an afterthought? I mean the update from 2.0 to 3.0 took what, two-and-a-half years?

    Bah, I've changed to evolution since then, but the tabbed interface looks interesting. I might have to give this a go.

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    • d2kx
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2007
      • 2311

      #3
      Originally posted by BlackStar View Post
      Is it me, or does Mozilla treat Thunderbird as an afterthought? I mean the update from 2.0 to 3.0 took what, two-and-a-half years?

      Bah, I've changed to evolution since then, but the tabbed interface looks interesting. I might have to give this a go.
      Most developers worked on Firefox after Thunderbird 2.0 was released. But since earlier this year, they have accelerated the development of Thunderbird again and already plan to release 3.1 in the not too distant future.

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      • BlackStar
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2007
        • 2103

        #4
        Originally posted by d2kx View Post
        Most developers worked on Firefox after Thunderbird 2.0 was released. But since earlier this year, they have accelerated the development of Thunderbird again and already plan to release 3.1 in the not too distant future.
        Good to hear. Hope it doesn't take another 2 years for a refresh (we want shiny new features, dammit!)

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        • Peterson Spaceport
          Junior Member
          • Dec 2009
          • 10

          #5
          I gave up on e-mail clients a long time ago.

          IMO, Thunderbird 3 should be what Raindrop wants to be =)

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          • clavko
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2008
            • 171

            #6
            What's in the name? Thunderbird 2 series was already quite polished piece of software and at the same time we're talking about very mature technology. You could argue that development of Gecko mandated the parallel development of FF & TB series 1 and 2, however, I think that web browser is more of a challenge than an e-mail client. I've installed TB 3 and consider it nothing more than an light evolution step. And as far as I'm concerned, it's a positive thing.

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            • alazyworkaholic
              Junior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 23

              #7
              PPA?

              If Ubuntu's Gods don't give us TB3 through normal 9.10 package updates, & I think they normally don't until the next release, can I get it through a PPA or something that doesn't involve manually installing it? I try to stick to apt.

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              • Peterson Spaceport
                Junior Member
                • Dec 2009
                • 10

                #8
                There's this, but.. daily builds =/



                and it will probably pull firefox packages along.

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                • alazyworkaholic
                  Junior Member
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 23

                  #9
                  Nuts, I wanted to avoid problems. Unless there's a reasonably stable TB3 repository I guess I'll just have to do it manually. Thanks anyway.

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                  • Yfrwlf
                    Senior Member
                    • Jul 2008
                    • 567

                    #10
                    "and much more"

                    Oh come come, there's only a few more insignificant things, otherwise you would have listed them.

                    Can't wait to give this a go, was waiting for this. For one thing, traditional email clients allow you to get mail from several different accounts at once, something that web mail interfaces won't let you do (if you are using Gmail and the like, for instance). It can be a nice way to have all your email be centralized.

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