Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 released

[clevin]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html

* Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
* Visual Theme:Thunderbird 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability.
* Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
* 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 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
* Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying folders 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.
* MacOS X Univesal Binaries

 

[bousozoku]

Funny that they just mentioned it. I've been using it for weeks.

 

[bartelby]

Is V2 any faster than 1.5.0.8?

I really like the app. it was just about 10 times slower than Mail.

 

[clevin]

i don't know, every mozilla products need more time to open, but once opened, Thunderbird receive email faster than mail.app, and more accurate.

 

[bartelby]

with 1.5... I used to click New / reply and it could take 10-15 secs to open the window.

 

[clevin]

with 1.5... I used to click New / reply and it could take 10-15 secs to open the window.

oooh, my, never took more than 1sec here, lol

 

[bousozoku]

with 1.5... I used to click New / reply and it could take 10-15 secs to open the window.

What are you people doing?

I can't say that it's become much faster (25 - 30 % maybe), but it has improved. There are a lot of little things that have been improved so much.

I never had much luck with Apple's mail application so I haven't used it since it improved.

 

[bousozoku]

Version 2 beta 2 came in the update overnight.

 

[Mhaddy]

How does the new TBird compare with Entourage?

 

[clevin]

beta 2 just becomes more mac-like