Thunderbird 5: more on this new Mozilla release

On June 28, Mozilla released the new version of the email client Thunderbird 5. Surprised with the numbering jump of 3.1 to 5? This decision was made to match the numbering to that of Firefox, since it will also begin to develop the mail client with short cycles from Mozilla Firefox.

Some of its novelties are:

• New Plugin Manager and Extensions API
• Tabs can be rearranged and rearranged.
• Improved the account creation wizard
• The size of the attached file is now displayed next to it
• New information, support and diagnostics page within Thunderbird
• Plugins can be loaded from RSS feeds by default.
• 32-bit and 64-bit Mac compatibility, (Thunderbird will not support Power PC on Mac)
• Theme improvements for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
• Many bug fixes
• More than 390 platform solutions that will improve speed, performance, stability and security

A very renewed and friendly interface, which adapts to the needs of users, as well as being very simple and efficient. Although it reminds us a bit of the Thunderbird 3 interface. And although it does not change much in terms of appearance, the news is more internal and in functionalities it has varied a bit.

Something that undoubtedly seemed interesting to me is the add-ons and extensions manager that undoubtedly offers many possibilities in terms of expanding functionalities, preferences, in short, many advantages with more add-ons that allow you to customize Thunderbird with more functionalities or style.

Features

Easier to get started

In the help menu, you can find the migration wizard to help you configure Thunderbird the way you want. This wizard can help you migrate from previous versions, install your favorite extensions, and help you a lot with the experience.

Tabs and searches

If you like the style of Firefox tabs, you will surely like the way Thunderbird has tabs; For greater ease, comfort and to adapt to your style, you can load your emails by tabs, review several messages at the same time, in short, many possibilities. The search interface in Thunderbird contains filters and timeline tools to identify the exact email that is being searched.

Personalize the email experience

Thunderbird allows you to add small themes that will give it a more personal appearance, to your style and taste. Smart folders help manage multiple email accounts by combining special folders such as Inbox, Sent, or archive folders. Instead of going to the inbox for each of your email accounts, you can see all your incoming email in the Global Inbox folder. You can also find and install plugins directly in Thunderbird through the plugin manager.

Secure and protect your email

Thunderbird helps protect your email from phishing and spam by going through the anti-spam filters that have been renewed and updated in this version. Thunderbird takes care of user privacy and protection of remote images. To ensure user privacy, Thunderbird automatically blocks remote images in e-mails, since these become a request to a web server that allows the recipient to be identified and thus confirm that the e-mail address is valid.

Thunderbird protects you from fraudulent emails that try to mislead users about personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential fraud attempt.

Free software

At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process led by thousands of passionate and experienced developers and security experts around the world. Our active and transparent community of experts helps make our products more secure and update quickly, while allowing us to better leverage third-party security scanning and assessment tools to increase overall security.

Installation

Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: mozillateam / thunderbird-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Other

Source: Hispanic Mozilla