Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla has released a new version of Thunderbird, their popular email and messaging platform. Thunderbird 3.1 sports faster search, snappy quick filters and improved import tools among other enhancements. Read on to learn more.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla’s email and messaging application is moving toward a 3.1 release for June, and little helpful things are popping up in the betas. Among the latest are a new “Quick Filter” bar and better Thunderbird 2 upgrade/import tools.
Thunderbird: Nowadays, a lot of us have at least separate work and personal email addresses. Thunderbird extension PrivateID Reloaded links each account to its own address books and attempts to prevent you from sending email from the wrong address.
Ubuntu has a unified notification system that posts to your desktop’s upper-right corner (unless you move them), but the Thunderbird email client doesn’t seem to know about them. Make Thunderbird use the same notifications as other apps with this quick terminal fix.
Windows/Mac/Linux: One of the notable absences from the launch of Thunderbird 3 was a compatible version of Lightning, an integrated calendar tool. Google and other calendars return to the ‘bird with beta builds of Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar.
Thunderbird: Some may scoff at viewing web pages in Thunderbird, but it can be faster to quickly glimpse a link in a new tab than via browser launching. Thunderbird Extension WAT (WebApplicationTab) streamlines your inbox flow by making it so.
You may be a diehard Gmail user, prone to declaring desktop email clients dead. That’s fine. We still think you’ll find Thunderbird 3 to be a better offline email solution, and a really convenient aggregator for all your inboxes.
Google’s Wave tool suffers from a “just another inbox” problem, at least at this early stage. So it makes sense for Thunderbird users to monitor their waves from a tab inside their actual inbox, with a single line of code.
Windows/Mac/Linux: A whopping two years after its second major release, Mozilla’s popular desktop email client Thunderbird is now available as the new and improved Thunderbird 3.0, and there’s a lot to love in the new Thunderbird.
It’s not a hugely new release, but Thunderbird has put out a second release candidate of its 3.0 edition. The new release fixes one very notable bug related to CPU usage and IMAP connections shutting down.
