Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

We're happy to announce the first release candidate of Thunderbird 3, now available for download.

Thunderbird 3 (Release Candidate) is our latest development milestone. While this release is considered to be stable, it is intended for developers and members of our testing community to use for early evaluation and feedback. Users of this latest released version of Thunderbird should not expect all of their add-ons to work properly with this milestone.

Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate includes several features like Better Search, Tabbed email, and message archiving that build on the current Thunderbird 2.

Please read the release notes for more details.

Link: Mozilla Messaging website

View: Release Notes

Download: Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC 1 (for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

[RvXtm]

I like it so much but the last version as so windows 98 looking it's a shame . :(

I'll give it a try now :)

[GEIST]

Why does it say RC1 in the setup file name but Beta 4 when installing it?

[Jamushroom Veteran]

I'm currently sing it and I'm pleased with it so far. One thing I don't understand is why they didn't use the tabbar images from Firefox, because it looks kinda weird in Windows 7.

[Salty Wagyu]

How is Thunderbird 3 looking on Windows 7? Does it still have that horrible blue colour on the menu bar and the mail toolbar? (that blue started appearing when I went from XP to 7) I'd prefer it if it was white.

Attached what I mean (and no its not the skin causing it, I've tried default and it's the same):

[Bhav]

Looking forward to the final version of this! Hoping it will be released before 10th Jan though? (I can't install it once I'm back at uni, because if it tries to download all my emails again it will probably send me over my uni's daily allowance :( )

[Jamushroom Veteran]

How is Thunderbird 3 looking on Windows 7? Does it still have that horrible blue colour on the menu bar and the mail toolbar? (that blue started appearing when I went from XP to 7) I'd prefer it if it was white.

Attached what I mean (and no its not the skin causing it, I've tried default and it's the same):

Yes, that's because it's the default toolbar background in the Aero visual style. You can easily mod Aero to have a white toolbar background. Here's a screenshot of how it currently looks in Windows 7:

[Kudo]

Thank you! I love the new TB 3 :)

Here is a useful link that will help people with the migration from TB 2 to TB 3 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_3.0_...res_and_Changes

[epple]

Will it have threaded mail conversations?

[ckempo]

Will it have threaded mail conversations?

Yes. And select-multiple-messages-get-an-outline-of-the-thread too.

[BryanChung]

1. Currently we can only set individual e-mail addresses to be added for remote contents. But can I allow like *@myemail.com to allow remote contents?

2. Can we sort our e-mail accounts on the left panel?

[ckempo]

1. Currently we can only set individual e-mail addresses to be added for remote contents. But can I allow like *@myemail.com to allow remote contents?

2. Can we sort our e-mail accounts on the left panel?

1. You can go and change the "mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image" value to false in the config editor - but this isn't account specific, so any account will always display all remote images for any account.

2. Not without messing around with prefs.js (I've done it) or an extension.

[Chasethebase Veteran]

It's desktop icon has also been tweaked. Looks much nicer, even if it is just the small details.

EDIT: It finally sorts by Date from most recent with Starred E-mails at the top :)

Edited November 27, 2009 by Chasethebase

[dt]

Yeah, the icon is slightly changed and they changed the UI slightly (from Beta 4). Looking good! :)

[sundayx Veteran]

Threaded emails didn't really work in beta, and those tabs were opening all over the place. Have these issue been cured?

[BryanChung]

How do I get into the config editor of thunderbird?

[Jamushroom Veteran]

You can find it under "Extra" > "Options" and then you should be able to see a button for it on the first tab.

[BryanChung]

You can find it under "Extra" > "Options" and then you should be able to see a button for it on the first tab.

Errr I don't see an "extra" on RC1.

[Chrysaor]

How do I get into the config editor of thunderbird?

Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor.

[BryanChung]

Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor.

Got it! Thanks :D

[Jamushroom Veteran]

I though the "Tools" menu was called "Extra" in the English version as well. My bad :)