Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Get a Security Overhaul

PC Magazine ^ | June 1, 2007 | Lisa Vaas

[CedarDave]

I downloaded the latest Firefox, but I didn't see an upgrade for Thunderbird, which still shows up on the site as being version 2.0.0.0. Is there a secret handshake for upgrading thunderbird?

Interesting... I use Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 which updated for security issues on May 30:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.12.html

However I also see a reference to Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 which appears to be a newer release but could be just a beta. It does not show any updates:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Think I'll stick with version 1.5 for a while.

[CedarDave]

Found another reference to Thunderbird:

Thunderbird 1.5: This version of Thunderbird will be supported until October 18, 2007 with security and stability updates. We strongly encourage all users to upgrade to Thunderbird 2.

Unsupported versions of Thunderbird for other platforms are also available.

[CholeraJoe]

Just checked. I'm running the updated version of Fartface Firefox.

[CedarDave]

One more note. As of last month (May) Thunderbird 2.0 had some bugs. Check out this Thunderbird Forum thread, especially the May 18th post:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=550079

[zeugma]

Thanks. I’ve been on 2.0 pretty much since it was released. Seems to work o.k. for me. Then again, I have 95% of my spam filtering happening at my email provider.