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Appeared on: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Mozilla Released Thunderbird 2.0

Mozilla today released new version of Thunderbird with many enhancements, improved interface and bugfixes.

With new version, users can create their own tags for organizing email. These tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.

Thunderbird 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability and maximize screen real estate.

Gmail and .Mac users can now access their accounts easier by simply providing their user names and passwords.

Other new features of Thunderbird are:

- Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
- Advanced Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
- Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
- Improved New Mail Notification Alerts: New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message preview text.
- Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
- Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
- Find As You Type: Finds and highlights message text as you type.
- Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
- Updates to the Extension System: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
- New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
- Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista.

Mozilla provides Thunderbird 2 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. You can get the latest version of Thunderbird 2 here.


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