Thunderbird 3.0 Available - Ubuntuzilla Reports Corrupt Package

[autonomy]

thanks, NormanFLinux, that worked for me. I think an easier way would be to

sudo mv -f Desktop/thunderbird /usr/share/

and then paste my old profile into the new thunderbird home directory.

[DougieFresh4U]

where is the mozilla PPA and how to install?

Here ya go, thanks wilee-nilee
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozill...y/+archive/ppa

[wilee-nilee]

When I installed thunderbird 3 from that ppa it automatically loaded the IMAP set up and needed no transfer of email files. I did not remove the stock thunderbird 1st or yet though.

[autonomy]

BTW, if you're going to paste your old profile into the new .thunderbird folder, don't forget to paste the old profile.ini file, too and move the two new items (profile dir and .ini file) to the old directory. It's working good and looking good.

[NormanFLinux]

I've added the Mozilla Security repository. The Daily site just issues too many changes I don't like.

[Dobbie03]

Thunderbird 3.0 is called Shredder for me, anyone else have this?

[sillyxone]

Yeah, the daily version is called Shredder.

I have nothing to complain using the package from daily version, except for the font smoothing. TB2 and Firefox display sub-pixel smooth fonts like the rest of the system but TB3 from the daily package displays grayscale smoothing.

I installed the thunderbird-gnome-support package from the same source too, restarted, no difference in font rendering. Any suggestion? TB3 is more responsive and faster, the index/search is just awesome, and tabbed email is great. Just need the subpixel font smoothing, just that

thanks,

[motorcity909]

I've tried to update Thunderbird by running it as gksudo (as instructed on the Ubuntuzilla wiki) but instead of opening my existing Thunderbird and allowing me to select Help>Check for Updates, it starts to reinstall TB and go through the import wizard.

I don't want to risk messing my profile up, so without messing about with copying files or installing other repositories, will TB 3.0 eventually come through the normal update manager?

If so, I'll stay with 2.0 for now.

Thanks.

[longtom]

What does 3 do better than 2?

[sillyxone]

What does 3 do better than 2?

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-U...bird/features/

basically I found it faster and more responsive. It also indexes the mailboxes, and thus the search feature is awesome. Tabbed email is also a plus.

When I install it from the Mozilla Daily PPA, it just recognized my existing encrypted .thunderbird folder and created a link .thunderbird-3.0 to it, nothing else changed, all the account settings, mailboxes, message filters are still there, no extra works required.

But I'm still searching for the font smoothing, perhaps recompiling with certain flags on will do.