Thread: Thunderbird 3.1 alpha released

One of the most popular freeware email client, thunderbird saw a major release with v3.0 recently after a long development period.

Mozilla is now planning to speed up the update/ upgrade process of the e-mail client just like it dropped v3.7 of firefox. Instead mozilla plans to release new features as small incremental updates instead of going for a major , time consuming update.

In sync with this, the next update of thunderbird namely v3.1 code named as Lanikai, has been developed and has reached the alpha stage. It specifically uses the Gecko 1.9.2 engine, which can be used to power the plun-ins similar to the ones in firefox.

It features a lot of stability and memory improvements, general fixes and tidying up of the user interface.

Its great software