...does the swimming pool move aside so it can take off?

I'll go now.

We all know that Thunderbird 3 has the worse search features on the Planet.

If you use IMAP.

I still can't search online for a phrase in the body of a email or in a header of my choosing.

It either locks up for an eternity and refuses to respond to the stop icon or simply can't find it.

So anything will be an improvement!

Quite why IMAP users are penalised like this is beyond me. POP3 works.

firefox updates, especially in my work environment are pretty boring things, but a thunderbird update is something i can really sink my teeth into.

should be an interesting monday

Very nice! I'm looking forward to TB's new search system. Even its current search is INFINITELY better than Gmail's utterly worthless search system that can't even find "mail" in "Gmail". The irony is so deep.

Eat that Google!

That's great, I've just started using Thunderbird 3 Beta 4, it certainly has got some improvements over Thunderbird 2.

It's about time too, I can't help but think that Thunderbird has been somewhat neglected. Sure lots of people use web mail services these days, but still some of us do still like a local mail client.

Rob

The current system, where you had to use a web browser to find and download the add-on, then Thunderbird to navigate to and load the add-on, is clumsy and highly off-putting. I've only bothered to do it for Chinese PeraPera-Kun (a translator), because I need that functionality.

Having a decent, integrated add-on search and load facility - assuming and hoping that's what they're doing - will be a huge improvement, and will encourage users to explore the wider range of possibilities ThunderBird offers through user-generated content and options.