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One critical and three less important flaws
Mozilla quietly updated its nearly finished Thunderbird 3 mail software fixing one critical error and three minor ones.
The critical bug fix affects the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 2. It had caused the previous version to hang on shutdown, consume too much memory, and close all IMAP connections.
The other fixes enable downloading new messages automatically by default for POP3 accounts,and fixes the "download more dictionaries" option, which had been failing to open properly. Thunderbird 3 has been dragging itself to market slower than an asthmatic turtle on its way to a turtle soup convention. It was supposed to be out in November 2009.
However the beta and release candidates seem to be quite good. We have been using the latest release candidate and have not noticed anything going wrong. It seems faster and does not use as much memory as the Thunderbird 2.
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Thunderbird 3 gets secret update
One critical and three less important flaws
Mozilla quietly updated its nearly finished Thunderbird 3 mail software fixing one critical error and three minor ones.
The critical bug fix affects the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 2. It had caused the previous version to hang on shutdown, consume too much memory, and close all IMAP connections.
The other fixes enable downloading new messages automatically by default for POP3 accounts,and fixes the "download more dictionaries" option, which had been failing to open properly. Thunderbird 3 has been dragging itself to market slower than an asthmatic turtle on its way to a turtle soup convention. It was supposed to be out in November 2009.
However the beta and release candidates seem to be quite good. We have been using the latest release candidate and have not noticed anything going wrong. It seems faster and does not use as much memory as the Thunderbird 2.