Reviews of Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows

1. 
   LakotaElf

   Reviewing 3.0 RC1 (Nov 25, 2009)

   Everytime this comes out with a new version either I cannot get use to it, or I do not like it. I have not decided.
   
   I installed this and it took forever to respond, I had nothing but problems with it trying to configure it and when I uninstalled it after getting disgusted with it, it took forever to uninstall to the point I did not think it was going to for a while. I use window 7. Mozilla makes good stuff, but I hardly can say this is ready for big time yet. It needs work, so beware of it, it is a RC which is basically BETA so it is to be expected that error's etc will happen.
   
   If your not wiling to fuss with this then do not install it, it is not ready for regular use in my estimation, it still needs work.
2. 
   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.
3. 
   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.
4. 
   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.
5. 
   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.

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