August 4, 2010 6:04 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

One of the best features in the Thunderbird remix called Postbox was the deep and fluid integration of social networking contacts into the desktop e-mail client. Thunderbird itself has begun to get a taste of that power with Thunderbird Contacts, a version of Mozilla [...]

July 20, 2010 6:04 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

Mozilla published security repairs for
Firefox and Thunderbird on Tuesday, which included updates for the legacy versions of both.

Firefox 3.6.7 for Windows, Mac, and Linux fixes 14 security bugs, including eight listed as critical, two high-level bugs and four moderate ones. The critical bugs [...]

June 24, 2010 2:25 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

Mozilla’s open-source Outlook alternative Thunderbird gains an impressively fast and new way to search your e-mail, a new migration assistant, and a download manager in its latest update. Arriving on-time for its development calendar, Thunderbird 3.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux debuts several helpful [...]

June 23, 2010 3:00 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

A new Windows Live Essentials public beta will have deep hooks to multiple social networking, media-sharing, and Web mail services, as well as the new Office Web Apps, Microsoft announced Wednesday. The public beta will be available starting Thursday at the Windows Live site, [...]

June 9, 2010 12:45 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

Mozilla published a second release candidate for next build of Thunderbird today. Judging from the public bug list, only one critical bug kept Thunderbird 3.1 Release Candidate 2 from becoming the final build of the current branch, code-named ‘Lanikai’.

Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, [...]