Mozilla has launched the final version of the open source email client, Thunderbird 3.0 built on the Gecko 1.9.1.5 platform. Thunderbird 3.0 is launched with major architectural changes so as to improve its stability, performance and compatibility. Code simplification has also been done. You can search and filter your emails based on the sender, attachment, people, folder, timeline tool etc. The auto-complete feature in Thunderbird can complete your search request against your address book. Thunderbird 3.0 final is not supported by versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000, and on Mac operating systems before version10.4 Tiger. Compatibility mode for unsupported versions of Windows OS have to be disabled for Windows executables of Thunderbird 3.0 before installing. System requirements for Linux version of Thunderbird has also changed.

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