The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes:
- 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
The Thunderbird 6.0 PPA Repos:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
sudo apt-get update
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And then Installing it:
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sudo apt-get install thunderbird
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