{"id":945,"date":"2007-04-05T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/thunderbird-20-coming-soon\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:57:12","slug":"thunderbird-20-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/thunderbird-20-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird 2.0 coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"thumb_thunderbirdlogo.jpg\" id=\"image472\" alt=\"thumb_thunderbirdlogo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/01\/thumb_thunderbirdlogo.jpg\" \/>The rumors are that Mozilla will be launching version 2.0 of its open source email client Thunderbird this week. Considered a serious competitor to Microsoft&#8217;s Outlook, Thunderbird features the similar technology used in the Firefox browser. It&#8217;s free, constantly updated and you can add all sorts of add-ons to it. In our <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/thunderbird-the-open-source-mail-client\/\">review<\/a> of Thunderbird we explained how much we appreciated those features but lamented the lack of proper business oriented tools (like Exchange compatibility or a calendar).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that version 2.0 will finally incorporate multiple tagging for messages, folder views, find as you type and an improved add-ons manager; you can already test these out in the 2.0 Beta. Scott MacGregor lead engineer for Thunderbird, gave <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/thunderbird_20.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read\/WriteWeb<\/a> a bit more info to chew on, without expanding too much on details. We should be expecting &#8220;webmail integration with Gmail and .Mac&#8221; and message history to browse to the messages you&#8217;ve read previously. Disappointingly, Scott did not reveal much about the expanded add-ons manager, and how different it will be to the one already in Thunderbird. Will there be more themes and extensions available? Will Thunderbird suggest add-ons according to what use you want to make of it?<\/p>\n<p>We like Thunderbird and are glad to see new features being implemented into it. While we can&#8217;t wait to try out tagging, search as you type and webmail integration we still wonder if version 2.0 will seem a real step up from 1.5. If you really can&#8217;t wait till the end of the week for the full release, you can make your own opinion by testing out the <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-thunderbird.en.softonic.com\/ie\/54387\">Beta version<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumors are that Mozilla will be launching version 2.0 of its open source email client Thunderbird this week. Considered a serious competitor to Microsoft&#8217;s Outlook, Thunderbird features the similar technology used in the Firefox browser. It&#8217;s free, constantly updated and you can add all sorts of add-ons to it. In our review of Thunderbird &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/thunderbird-20-coming-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thunderbird 2.0 coming soon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337786,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/337786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}