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Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate on the air...

Most of us know that I'm a Thunderbird (and Firefox) lover and I'm happy to see that the Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate is out and ready to be tested...

The improvements are a lot:

• Significant theme improvements for all platforms.
• Migration improvements for Outlook 2003, Eudora and Mozilla Suite users.
• Fix for a 0.9 regression on Mac OS X when creating folders with non ascii characters.
• Saved Search Folder Improvements (i.e. lots of bug fixes)
• Message Grouping Improvements (i.e. lots of bug fixes)
• Improved RSS support (i.e. lots of bug fixes)
• Improved support for Multiple Identities for an account.
• Improved Account Central for Windows and Linux
• Improvements to Global Inbox, in particular how we manage filters.
• Fix problems creating folders with semicolons or # signs in the name
• Stability Improvements
• POP3 Filters can now filter messages to IMAP folders
• RSS Feeds that require http authentication now work in Thunderbird
• Fix an issue on Mac OS X where you could not paste text from Microsoft Word into the compose window
• Offline UI is now installed by default for Windows (it already was for Linux and Mac OS X)
• New quick search bar for address book and mail compose contacts sidebar.
• Deleting a saved search folder now prompts you before it gets deleted.

If you want to try the new 1.0 RC, you can download it from HERE.