The Mozilla Thunderbird development team has released beta 4 of the upcoming Thunderbird 3 desktop email client. The new version of the popular email client is already available for download at the Mozilla Thunderbird website. Downloads are as usual available for all supported operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh) and languages.
The release notes contain a huge list of new features and improvements including a new email search with advanced filtering options, global search with autocomplete, smart folders, tabbed email messages, new add-ons manager, improved address book, better Gmail integration and integration into Windows Vista’s search results.
Improvements have been made to overall performance and stability as well as web compatibility and sustainability. The way IMAP connections are handled has been improved in this version of Thunderbird as well. Thunderbird can now download IMAP messages by default in the background “to allow for faster message loading and better offline operation”.
Users who are interested in the new version can download it from the Mozilla Thunderbird website. The usual precautions should be taken considering that this version is still a beta version that should not be used in a production environment. The full release notes can be accessed at this link.
Update: Mozilla Messaging, the organization behind the development of the email client, have moved away from Thunderbird 3. The developers have adopted the rapid release process of the Firefox web browser, and pushed out new versions of the desktop email client in a six-weeks rhythm. The latest version at the time of writing is Thunderbird 11 (March 2012).
You can download the latest version of Thunderbird from the official website. the program’s available there for all supported operating systems.
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Does it have Windows 7 64bit support?
Cannot really say if they do. There is an unofficial 64-bit download page but that has not been updated yet with the latest version http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Thunderbird:Download