Thunderbird:Thunderbird3
Thunderbird 3 is still in early planning stages. This page represents draft thinking about what such a release could be like. It is very much subject to change.
Goals of the Thunderbird 3 Release
The 3.0 release of Thunderbird has a few high-level goals:
* To ensure that Thunderbird keeps up with the evolution of the Mozilla platform * To increase adoption of Thunderbird * To improve usability
Thunderbird 3 will be built on top of Gecko 1.9. This is expected to yield performance improvements, usability improvements especially on OS X, and access to new technologies such as mozStorage which will allow further Thunderbird evolution.
Much of the underlying changes for this change has already been done, including XXX.
Major work items include converting to frozen linkages, and