Mozilla has released the alpha version its open-source e-mail software Thunderbird 3.1 which has got some bugs fixed present in its earlier version Thunderbird 3.0. As a change they have included the Gecko 1.9.2 browser engine, which is being used in the present firefox 3.6.

The browser engine will let users to add extensions to Thunderbird, like Google calender, enabling web pages for e-mails and many more. There are 147 changes in this alpha release of Thunderbird 3.1 and more to come.

Few important changes are as follows:

  • Several improvements to IMAP.
  • Several fixes for Smart Folders, message filters, and attachment handling.
  • Several design improvements and corrections to the interface.
  • Download Manager is now accessible as a menu item (Tools > Saved Files).
  • Stability and memory improvements.


Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.1 Release Notes