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Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

Version: 3.0 beta 2

Downloads Count: 3,402

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Feb 28, 2009

Operating Systems: Windows 98, Macintosh, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008

Requirements: Pentium 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 52 MB hard drive space

File Size: 8061 KB

Author: Mozilla

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Editorial Review of Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

Thunderbird 3 Beta 2, a preview release of the upcoming version 3 of the free mail program, will look entirely familiar to anyone using Mozilla's excellent Thunderbird 2. It showcases a few new features, such as archiving and a new activity manager, but most of the changes are under the hood.

The new Archive feature (inspired by Gmail) automatically moves a message to an archive folder when you hit "A" with a message open or select Message | Archive. The archives folder layout sorts messages by year, with subfolders for each month.

The other new addition, the Activity Manager, show all interactions between Thunderbird and your e-mail account server(s)--such as sending and receiving mail--in a new pop-up window. Thunderbird 2 doesn't do a good job at telling you what it's doing, and the Activity Manager should make things more clear.

These new additions are nice, but probably won't change much for your day-to-day emailing. And aside from some handy new buttons for functions such as Reply, Forward, and Archive, which show up in the header information bar next to the from: and to: info when you preview or open a message, you probably won't immediately notice most of the other changes. But there are a slew of bug fixes and tweaks in the new version, such as faster message loading for IMAP accounts. See the release notes for the full list of changes in this beta.

Current Thunderbird users may want wait for a more final version of the new bird before making the upgrade. Mozilla emphasizes that this beta isn't for everyday use, "but for developers and testers to give us early feedback." Despite the bug fixes, you'll almost certainly find new glitches and other issues. For example, Javascript is disabled for security reasons. And while you should be able to safely install the new version alongside version 2 on Windows and Macs (but not Linux), extensions from version 2 will likely not work.

Note: This download link will take you to the Thunderbird early releases download page, where you can choose a version for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux in a variety of languages.

--Erik Larkin

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