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Thunderbird 2 released

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Released on 18 Apr 07, and this changelog was last updated on 19 Apr 07.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2 has been released. Release notes are available. This post lists the new features and improvements in Thunderbird 2. This list encompasses almost every single known fix that went into this release. Do check out the known issues as well. There are over 35 localizations available.

Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows is now supported, along with universal binaries for Intel Macs as well. There is a new installer for Windows (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System), in addition to Gmail and .Mac support, 3 new localizations have been added (Belarusian, Georgian & Portuguese). Lots of user interface improvements (Tags, folder views, Find As You Type, mail alert improvements [Windows and Linux only] etc.) were implemented. All in all, at least 963 bugfixes / improvements went into this release over the 1.5 branch.

New features & significant changes in Thunderbird 2:

  • Tools for organizing and managing e-mail
    • 74959: implement mail "back" and "forward"
    • 114656: Message Tags
      • 359338: Ability to search tags
      • 362557: Support for editing tags
      • 371337: Improve Usability Of Tag Menus
    • 251296: Folder Views
    • 301084: Option to file replies in folder of original message
    • 328795: Find As You Type in the message pane
    • 345501: enable auto-save by default
    • 350661: Recent folder menus for Copying and Moving messages
  • Be Informative
    • 278096: Main mail window now shows IMAP quota usage
    • 312940: New Mail Alert Improvements [Windows and Linux only]
      • 360030: Ability to customize new mail alert information
    • 314124: Folder Summary Tooltips
    • 350864: Add ability to check news servers for new messages at startup
  • Support for new platforms
  • Automatic detection of online state
  • Preference dialog redesign
  • Remote image policy changes
  • Two pane view using a folder location picker toolbar widget
  • 3459: Spell check now also checks the subject line
  • 339135: New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
  • 345887, 366842: Theme updates for all platforms
  • 348897: New, combined and improved Add-ons manager for extensions and themes
  • 353841, 359900 : New account types - Gmail (all systems) & .Mac (Mac OS X only)
  • 360588: New localizations: Belarusian, Georgian & Portuguese
  • 369109: Thunderbird 2 release notes link in Help menu should point to localized documents

Changes in Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1: (456)

  1. Security issues
  2. Topcrashes
  3. Crashes
  4. Account manager
  5. Address book
  6. Attachment-related
  7. Build configuration
  8. Filter-related
  9. Functionality
  10. Installer
  11. Localization
  12. Networking
  13. Printing
  14. RSS
  15. Spelling checker
  16. UI improvements
  17. XULRunner
  18. Miscellaneous fixes
  19. Mac-specific
  20. Intel Mac-related
  21. Sun-specific
  22. BeOS-specific
  23. OS/2-specific
  24. AIX-specific

Changes in Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1: (273)

  1. Security issues
  2. Topcrashes
  3. Crashes
  4. Account manager
  5. Address book
  6. Attachment-related
  7. Build configuration
  8. Filter-related
  9. Functionality
  10. Installer
  11. Localization
  12. Networking
  13. Printing
  14. RSS
  15. Spelling checker
  16. UI improvements
  17. XULRunner
  18. Miscellaneous fixes
  19. Mac-specific
  20. OS/2-specific

Changes in Thunderbird 2 Beta 2: (80)

  1. Security issues
  2. Topcrash
  3. Account manager
  4. Address book
  5. Attachment-related
  6. Build configuration
  7. Filter-related
  8. Functionality
  9. Localization
  10. Networking
  11. RSS
  12. UI improvements
  13. XULRunner
  14. Miscellaneous fixes
  15. Mac-specific
  16. OS/2-specific

Changes in Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 Release Candidate 1: (154)

  1. Topcrashes
  2. Crashes
  3. Account manager
  4. Address book
  5. Build configuration
  6. Filter-related
  7. Functionality
  8. Installer
  9. Localization
  10. Networking
  11. RSS
  12. UI improvements
  13. XULRunner
  14. Miscellaneous fixes
  15. Mac-specific

Note: Thunderbird 2 final release is the same build as Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 RC 1. For the en_US .zip build, the corresponding nightly is the one dated 2007032620.

The entire bug list is too large to be listed here. Instead, only the table of contents to the fixes of each Alpha/Beta/RC are shown. All feedback is welcome at the comments section below.

Windows builds Official Windows installer (discussion)

Linux builds Official Linux (i686)

Mac builds Official Mac (Universal binary)

Filed under 'Thunderbird Releases' | Posted on 13 Mar 2007 (Tue) by Gary Kwong at 6:00 PM. (GMT+8)

Comments

Bug 301084 doesn't really provide conversations like GMail, it just puts replies that you wrote in the same folder as the original message.

In GMail, when you click on a message to view it, you get a collapsed list of all other messages in that same conversation, while viewing the whole message you clicked on.

Enabling this new feature and threading the message view will give you something like a conversation, but it's hardly like GMail.

Posted by: Mikel Ward at March 14, 2007 8:32 AM

I've changed it already. Thanks for the quick feedback!

Posted by: Kwong Gary at March 15, 2007 12:34 AM

Nice, but (always bitching):

1. lost ability to mouseclick on folder list order title (unread, favorites, recent, all) which used to cycle through them;

2. alert mail popup times out before I have a chance to read it. Might be better to keep this dialog active while mouse is inside it.

3. Calendar still sucks (can't send email notification to self about appointment);

4. Palm sync sucks (what I can get working at all).

The good news - it's still far better than Outlook, particularly with IMAP which in Outlook is an unmitigated disaster.

Posted by: Mark Richards at April 11, 2007 4:58 AM

Posted by: Samu�l at April 18, 2007 6:17 PM

what exactly does this mean?

"Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows is now supported"

Posted by: kokamomi at April 20, 2007 6:53 PM

kokamomi - It means that you can now use Thunderbird on Vista and you can now use Thunderbird on 64-bit versions of Windows.

Posted by: Bob at April 21, 2007 1:01 AM

HELP! I installed Thunderbird 2.0 from 1.5 and it won't start. Can someone help?

Posted by: Don L at April 22, 2007 6:28 AM

Thunderbird still has an issue with saved emails but now instead of getting the "c is not a registered protocol" when I open up a saved email, I now get thunderbird opening up another window of itself and the saved email does not open at all. I completely wiped thunderbird out of my PC, re-installed it again and tried opening up my saved emails and still the same issue comes up where I cannot open my saved emails using it. I've even made it my default email program and still having the same issue.

Posted by: Joe Nova at April 29, 2007 10:58 PM

Also, in the options window some of the options cannot be seen because the Window is improperly sized.

Posted by: Joe Nova at April 29, 2007 11:05 PM

Good day,
I often suffering from my need to use slow internet connections as per example GPRS. It's than often random to access the SMTP server of my e-mail provider. I would appreciate if Thunderbird would try to connect to the mail server continously instead of annoying me with a message that the smtp server, pop3 server or imap hasn't been reachable. If there is a slow connection this happens sometimes.
Kind regards
Gerhard

Posted by: Gerhard at May 5, 2007 9:23 PM

Hi,

I've installed thunderbird 2 on a fresh system and surprisingly I can't shut down thunderbird. It would restarts itself straight away and uses up nearly all the CPU capacity. Really annoying because I can't do anything else with my computer. Had to reboot to safe mode so that I could remove thunderbird

Posted by: Viet Linh Nguyen at May 20, 2007 4:00 PM

Installed 2.0.0.0 over 1.5.0.10 and now Thunderbird won't start. WinXP SP2. Click on the icon, and I get an hourglass for less than a second. I've removed profile, uninstall, clear %TEMP%, reboot, reinstall. On startup, it offers to import settings, but then nothing. Safe mode is no different. What else can I try? Arrgh!

John.

Posted by: John Yesberg at May 24, 2007 7:52 PM