14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla team is well-known for the continuous efforts they put in improving their applications, and the development version of Thunderbird has recently been updated to 3.3 Alpha 3, which brings bug fixes and new features. This edition of Thunderbird is codenamed Miramar and it is built on top of Gecko 2.0, unlike its stable iteration which is based on Gecko 1.9.2.
It should be mentioned from the beginning that this release should only be downloaded and installed by extension developers, testers or early adopters who are aware that the application might encounter critical bugs or crashes.
This is why all the users who are willing to take Alpha 3 for a spin are strongly encouraged to provide feedback or bug reports to the Mozilla team.
As opposed to version 3.1.9, Alpha releases of this open-source email client should not be used in a production environment, as the developers also advise on their homepage.
One of the most important improvements brought to Alpha 3 is the support for tab re-ordering, thus allowing users to simply drag and drop their tabs to other windows.
Due to this innovation, Thunderbird is bound to offer more flexibility to users since they are no longer restricted to the tab order initially created.
The latest release also includes a revised account creation wizard, meant to assist even beginners into setting up their account and using it with this app.
Another feature that will improve user experience is the fact that plugins can be loaded in RSS feeds by default.
Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha 3 brings 100 bug fixes as well, most of them reported by users, a clear sign that the community is actively working to produce a smoothly working email client.
Thunderbird currently works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, therefore, there is a great amount of work that still needs to be done to ensure the application will not pose any trouble to its users once it gets to final stage.
Thunderbird for all platforms can be downloaded from Softpedia as well, from here.