Download Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0

The Mozilla Foundation has released Thunderbird version 6.0. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open source mail and newsgroup client, with features such as support for different mail and news accounts, a junk mail filter, spell checker and a customizable appearance. Version 6 is based on a newer version of Mozilla Gecko, which means, among other things, improved integration with Windows 7. Furthermore, the import of emails from Outlook should go better and of course a lot of bug fixes have been implemented. The release notes for this version can be found below.

What’s New in Thunderbird 6.0:

• Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 6 engine
• Several theme improvements for Windows 7
• Support for Windows 7 Jump lists
• Several fixes when importing email from Microsoft Outlook
• Default mail client check now works with newer Linux distributions
• Various other user interface fixes and improvements
• Numerous platform fixes that improve speed, performance, stability and security