First look at Thunderbird 2.0

After many months of development, Thunderbird 2.0 is almost ready to debut. The Mozilla Foundation released the first beta of Thunderbird 2.0 last week, and I’ve been using it to manage my mail since then. The new release boasts tagging, history navigation, new mail alerts, improved extension support, and a number of other features. Thunderbird 2.0 won’t knock your socks off with exciting new features, but it’s a nice, gradual improvement over the Thunderbird 1.5 series.

If you use Thunderbird as your mail client, then there are numerous reasons to upgrade. I’ve been using it for the past few weeks and it runs well. The theme has been updated and it in itself is almost worth the upgrade.