Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1


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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.

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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.

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):

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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:

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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.

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 :)

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