Reviews of Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

1. 
   Somnambulator

   Reviewing 3.0 Beta 2 (Feb 27, 2009)

   works great so far and some nice improvements over 2.x. i like the updated GUI thats still extremely familiar to 2.x. so far i havent seen any problems with the beta
2. 
   us3r

   Reviewing 3.0 Beta 2 (Feb 27, 2009)

   Great application. Best email client I've ever used and it's completely free. Version 3.0 is just amazing, so many improvements regarding the Thunderbird 2.0 and the development team has already plans for version 4.0
3. 
   pjb

   Reviewing 3.0 Beta 2 (Feb 26, 2009)

   Works really well. Love the improvements. Have also been using the nightly builds, with no issues. Tabbed email is nice, good for checking between 2 emails without having to close and open each one. Thunderbird rocks.
4. 
   Sven123456789

   Reviewing 3.0 Beta 1 (Jan 31, 2009)

   Well they finally added the bcc option, now i can't seem to find the option that allows you to see how many emails are in each folder. And like the one user mentioned, the tab feature is totally useless in an email client.
5. 
   skapig

   Reviewing 3.0 Beta 1 (Dec 10, 2008)

   I much prefer using Thunderbird over Gmail. That being said, after the long wait for Thunderbird 3, I find it to be very disappointing.
   
   + New engine, so a slight bit faster.
   
   + GMail IMAP account profile which makes it a breeze to get connected to there (I have other accounts too).
   
   - Completely pointless tabbing added to the main window. Could not find a way to hide the tab bar.
   
   - Pointless buttons added in the message header area. Especially so if you have messages open in a new window. Buttons for the same functions exist right above the header.
   
   + Fixes a number of minor annoyances that users have reported, but these are only noticeable by very few.
   
   Overall, there is nothing Earth-shattering though that wasn't the stated goal of the release. It's an architectural update with the few big frontend changes being the most annoying. It sounds like the team is relying on users to handle the innovation with addons.

Discuss Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

1. Feb 27, 2009 - 11:41 AM
   rip_pit

   The beta is available in 43 langs:
   http://www.mozillamessag...arly_releases/downloads/
   
   I only hope the addons i use will be updated to work with