Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows 3.0 Beta 4 Fileforum Pick

4.4 out of 5 stars 4.4 (1135 votes)

BETA (September 21, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 93,641 downloads

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser.

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    skapig

    Reviewing 3.0 Beta 4 (Sep 23, 2009)

    Nice performance increase in Beta 4, although it disregarded my existing layout.

    Since Beta 3, it tends to not exit gracefully. It gets caught in a loop and maxes out the CPU until it is forced to terminate.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    jowtron

    Reviewing 3.0 Beta 4 (Sep 22, 2009)

    New smart folders are great, and so is the search everywhere feature, but the UI does need to be slickend up a bit more.

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.0 Beta 3 (Aug 4, 2009)

    Wow! Postbox is the slickest email client with the best (zero-configuration) setup I've ever used. It's based on tbird so has extensions and plugins listed on their site. Cpu is kinda high but so was tbird. Except tbird never flew so smooth. Was just about to try this again cause I miss the html views but after trying postbox there's no doubt tbird can't hold a candle.

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    netean

    Reviewing 3.0 Beta 3 (Jul 22, 2009)

    thunderbird (2) was my main mail client for a few years, but there was always something about that niggled me that left me feeling I was settling for something that wasn't brilliant just because it was free.

    trying V3 beta 3, some things have changed, but really not a lot. The UI is still ugly as sin (llooks way better on OSX from the screenshots I've seen) but looks tired and old and grey in windows. Got multiple tabs - nice, but nothign much else that makes me want to return to using it.

    Mostly I've switched over to Postbox for my offline mail or gmail for online, Postbox is based on Thunderbird but ti's everything that TB should have been 5 years+ ago.

    It's free, so that's good, but there are 100s of free email clients that I think are as a good as TB.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    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

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  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

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