Op de corporate website van Mozilla heeft aliencowfarm de releasenotes en downloadlinks gevonden naar Thunderbird 2.0.0.4, waardoor de versienummering op gelijke hoogte komt met de internetbrowser Firefox. De nieuwe versie kan vanaf deze ftp-map naar binnen gehaald worden voor Linux, Mac OS X en Windows. Mozilla Thunderbird is de standalone versie van de mail- en nieuwssoftware die bij Mozilla SeaMonkey meegeleverd wordt. Het mailprogramma is een open source en crossplatform mail- en newsgroupclient met features zoals een junkmailfilter, spellingcontrole en de mogelijkheid om de functionaliteit verder uit te breiden via add-ons. Hieronder kan gelezen worden welke veranderingen doorgevoerd zijn in de nieuwe Thunderbird, en welke bugs nog opgelost moeten worden:
Fixed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.4Known Issues
- MFSA 2007-15 Security Vulnerability in APOP Authentication
- MFSA 2007-12 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.12/1.8.1.4)
All Systems
[break]Mac OS X
- Some firewall software may silently block Thunderbird from running. This often happens immediately after Thunderbird has been installed or updated from a previous version. There are configuration instructions available for most popular firewall programs to help you ensure that Thunderbird is allowed to connect to the Internet.
- Software Update will not work if Thunderbird is installed to a location on your disk to which you do not have write access, since Software Update needs to replace or create files in this location.
- Dictionaries can be installed as extensions from: addons.mozilla.org.
- The mail views toolbar button is no longer a default toolbar button. Users of this feature must add it back to their default toolbar in the mail 3-pane window: View / Toolbars / Customize.
- In order to take advantage of Thunderbird's ability to adjust the online state based on your network connectivity, you must first change the value of network.autodial-helper.enabled to false.
- When switching between using a Global Inbox and using an Inbox for a POP3 account, be sure to make copies of the messages into another folder.
- A compatible version of DOM Inspector is now available for Extension and Theme developers at: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/1806/.
Linux and Unix
- There is no Talkback on Intel-based Macs when running natively or under Rosetta. The Apple Crash report program should launch in the event of application crashes.
- If Thunderbird is installed to a location with spaces in the path, it may not be able to set itself as default mail client and may keep prompting at startup. The work around is to install into a path without spaces.
- GNOME integration does not work properly with Fedora Core 3. Users of Fedora Core 3 will need to download and install linc-1.0.3-3.1.i386.rpm. After installing the RPM, perform the following command in the directory in which you installed Thunderbird (you will need write permission):
touch .autoreg
The next time you start Thunderbird, GNOME integration should be functional.