Firefox 2.0.0.1 RC1 And Thunderbird 2.0 Beta RC1 Available
There are two milestone releases for Mozilla right around the corner and just in time for the holidays. The first one to point out is Firefox 2.0.0.1 which is scheduled for December 14. As of right now Mozilla has RC1 available to try out on their FTP servers which is good to see because that means they are on schedule.
The other big release is Thunderbird 2.0 Beta which is also expected to ship on December 14 as well. You can test out the latest release candidate of that milestone on Mozilla’s FTP. According to previous plans there are still some features that this milestone will not include, like the tabbed messages, but it is only the first Beta so there is still some time for further development. The final release of Thunderbird 2 is estimated to be in the first quarter of 2007 and then Thunderbird 3 should be released not that long after it. They are adding quite a few new features to Thunderbird 2 which is why it is taking a little longer whereas version 3 won’t be such a drastic change. Hopefully that will get the releases of Firefox and Thunderbird back in sync.
News Source: Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog
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Never liked Thunderbird. It never would imports my contact list from Outlook. Also, I couldn’t get it to connect to my web sites email server. Outlook, Outlook Express and MS newest mail client (I forget the name) connected without any problems.
Thunderbird built-in spam protection is perfect!
I had to drop my “The Bat!” mailer (which is very good mailer), because its “Baesian” spam protection didn’t filter spam well.
And I like Thunderbird 2.0, it is much better than 1.5.
Thunderbird and Outlook/Outlook Express don’t play very nice together. I recently decided to try out Outlook 2007 because I have never used it before. I have to admit that it is pretty nice but it took me a long long time to get my emails moved over from Thunderbird.
Thunderbird’s spam filter didn’t seem to do a good enough job for me and that is one of the reasons I switched to Outlook (as mentioned above). The most common that passed the filter were written in either Japanese or Chinese (I’m not sure which one) but they were quite annoying. Outlook catches them with no problem at all.
2.0.0.1 runs hell of alot better than 2.0. Its a very very nice surprise
I’m surprised you notice that much of a difference. There were more than 100 bug fixes I think but nothing I have noticed so far.