In addition to the Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird web browsers, the Mozilla project also has an email and news client called Mozilla Thunderbird. This program also welcomed a new release today, numbered 0.3. The changes look like this:
- Recently Fixed Bugs
The open attachment dialog has had several improvements made to it including a fix for a common 0.2 problem where the “Open With” option was disabled when trying to open an attachment.
You can place your signature at the top of a message reply if your reply text is configured to be at the top of the message.
POP accounts can be configured to remove read messages from the server after X days.
Reading a news article with a background image no longer pegs the CPU at 100%
Windows and Linux versions properly handle binhex encoded mail attachments.
- Performance Improvements
IMAP has received a huge performance boost and is several times faster than 0.2
- Improved Stability and Polish
This release is based on the Mozilla App-Suite 1.5 final branch and includes all of the stability work that went into Mozilla 1.5.
[break]Mozilla Thunderbird is available for Windows† Linux and MacOS X†
| Version number | 0.3 |
| Operating systems | Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Mobile 2003 |
| Website | Mozilla |
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| License type | Freeware |