Mozilla pushes Thunderbird 5.0 to my Windows XP box

Once I got Thunderbird 3.1 (with the extremely useful Quick Filter function), I was happy.

I got it first in Windows, then in Linux. I knew Thunderbird 5 was coming. And now it's here. It's probably been "here" for a while, but just this morning Mozilla pushed it to my XP box.

I did the install, answered a helpful dialog box to bring in a new version of the Lightning calendar add-on, and now I'm enjoying what definitely is a faster browsing experience with Thunderbird 5.

Some may say the mail client is dead. But I'm using them more than ever these days, almost always with IMAP so my mail stays on the server and I bring down to my local drive those messages I need to archive.

That method works for me. And Thunderbird, especially in the 3.1 era, has been performing better than any other mail client I've used -- heavy or light. I'm anxious to see what's better and faster in Thunderbird 5.