Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 1 has been issued by Mozilla as a preview release of the next major version of Thunderbird and it is being made for testing purposes only.
Thunderbird 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1.5 platform including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, web compatibility, and code simplification and sustainability.
There are over 100 changes in this release, many laying the groundwork for future changes.
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Changes Include:
- New Search with Advanced Filtering Tools
- User Experience Improvements
- Performance Improvements
- A more elaborate search option to locate specific messages. People can employ a variety of methods to sift the wheat from the chaff.
- An e-mail archive a la Google’s Gmail. Rather than filing every message in a folder, an organizational technique that can be hard to maintain with high volumes of messages, people can move them out of the inbox into the archive where search can find them later.
- A streamlined interface that cleans up the toolbar and moves some of its functions to the frame around e-mail messages.
- A new plug-in system designed to be easier to use to replicate some of the success of the Firefox browser. The browser, by the way, is built in so plug-ins can use it.
- A tabbed interface that can reduce clutter of e-mails, e-mail folders, and other tasks. A tab can, for example, house a version of Yahoo’s online calendar.
- An easier process to set up new e-mail accounts. The software has preset settings for several e-mail services.
- “Smart folders” that can be customized in a variety of ways. For example, users with multiple e-mail accounts can create a smart folder that provides a unified inbox for all the accounts.
- An easier way to add people to the address book by clicking a star icon next to the sender’s name
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