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Anyone who is interested in upgrading their Firefox browser, go to mozilla.com and download Firefox 3.  There are many improvements and even a new look.

For anyone who is looking for a great, free email program…I highly recommend Mozilla Thunderbird. I’ve been using it for years now and it keeps getting better and better.

Some Key Features of Mozilla Thunderbird

Keep Your Vital Information Organized
Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.

Advanced Folder Views

Thunderbird 2 offers a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders, whether by favorites, recently viewed or folders containing unread messages. As always, you can also set up RSS and newsgroup folders to stay on top of news and your interests. Thunderbird 2 also allows you to maximize your message view pane by opting for a folder drop down menu instead of the traditional sidebar.

Message Tagging

Thunderbird 2 allows you to “tag” messages with descriptors such as “To Do” or “Done” or even create your own tags that are specific to your needs. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.

Message History Navigation

Thunderbird 2 offers message history navigation that allows you to click “forward” and “back” much like in your Web browser. You can now quickly toggle between messages and folder views.

Improved Search

Thunderbird 2 features a find as you type pane that speeds up searches within displayed messages. Thunderbird also offers quick search, which starts showing search results as soon as you start typing in search terms.

Saved Searches

Do you find yourself searching for the same subject or message content over and over? Thunderbird 2 saves you time by allowing you to store this search as a folder. Rerunning the search is just a matter of clicking on the saved search folder in the folder pane.

Stay Informed

Thunderbird 2 has been updated to provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender, subject and message text for newly arrived messages. Folders provide a pop up summarizing new messages in that folder.

Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services

Thunderbird 2 makes it even easier to integrate and use various Web mail accounts from one inbox. Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.

Secure and Protect Your Mail

Mozilla has bolstered Thunderbird’s acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. It’s like having your own security guard online.

Phishing Protection

Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defense, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.

Robust Privacy
Thunderbird 2 offers improved support for user privacy and remote image protection. To ensure a user’s privacy, Thunderbird 2 automatically blocks remote images in email messages.

Cutting Out the Junk
Mozilla has updated Thunderbird’s popular junk mail folders to stay ahead of spam. Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird’s leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird “learns” and improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird can also use your mail provider’s spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.

Open Source, More Secure
At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.

Automated Update

Thunderbird’s update system checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Thunderbird on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 30 different languages.

Get Your Mail, Your Way
Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.

Outfit Your Inbox
Thunderbird users can increase Thunderbird’s functionality and appearance using hundreds of add-ons. A Thunderbird add-on can let you manage contacts, place voice over IP calls, listen to music, and keep track of birthdates all from your inbox. You can even change the appearance of Thunderbird to suit your tastes.

Message Templates
Thunderbird 2 allows you to easily set up message templates to save you time – especially if you have to send the same mail message repeatedly.

Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes

The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Thunderbird 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.

Add this Calendar Extension to Thunderbird and really rock!

Mozilla Lightning - This is Mozilla’s Calendar and Task Program that keeps getting better and better with each release. For those of you who like the all encompassing email client that allows you to track appointments and tasks…this extension is for you.

Download Mozilla Thunderbird for Free!

Wow…this certainly is a week for milestones!  To add to the celebration, Mozilla announced on their blog that Firefox reached 500 million downloads completed.  That is quite a feat!  Congratulations to Mozilla and their team who work on the Firefox Browser.

Most of my customers don’t realize that you have a choice when it comes to browsing the internet.  Just because you have a Windows machine doesn’t mean you have to use Internet Explorer.   Although some may prefer IE, I like to use Firefox.   Why?  Firefox is an award-winning Web browser which is faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life.

How is it customizable?  Firefox uses what they call ‘Add-ons’ that really do enhance my internet browsing experience.  Being a developer, I have many tools I like to use.  And with Firefox, most of these tools can be ‘Added-on’ right on my browser window.  So all I have to do is click a button to get what I want.

You don’t have to be a developer to love Firefox and its add-ons.  My best friend is a weather geek.  She has an add-on just for the weather.  Now she gets real time weather at a glance in any city she chooses to view.  Since she travels alot, and seems to love keeping up with the weather…it’s a perfect add-on match in heaven.

There are many other add-ons to choose from and best of all, they are free to use.  Just like Firefox.  Free software you can download that will change the way you use the internet.  Visit Firefox’s website today to download your free copy and make sure you ‘add-on’ the fun!