Release notes now available:
• New ability to search the Web
• Improvements to email search
• Several fixes when drafting email
• several other platform fixes

The PPC version has been at 3.1.17 for awhile. Runs well on 10.6.8, too. Get it here -

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.1.17/mac/

Thunderbird Release Notes

v. 9.0.1, released: December 23, 2011

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

I got used to Thunderbird on my PC so it was natural for me to run it on my Mac. I have multiple mailboxes and prefer to use IMAP so it is elegant, though there are limitations. Most of my office uses Google Apps mail and so forth but I can't get used to the threaded way Google Mail works so I like looking at my mail in order not in conversations. Also, search works well and organization works well. It converts modern email to something I like better. Maybe more PC-like because I don't really like the default Mail program either. I took a point off because Calendar isn't built in (is it?) so I can't really integrate 100% into my GApps...

What hot mess express.
So many bugs and glitches I don't even know where to start.

anyone been able to configure thunderbird (osx) to receive/subscribe to rss feeds?

is this a windows only feature?

Found the solution for SLOW opening etc on mozillazine forums under the topic 'slow opening':

"There is a current bug which adds spurious lines to your pref.js file every time you open your address book, or load the contact sidebar. When enough of these amass, they can slow down initial address book/contact sidebar loading. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230580

The bug will be fixed in release 2.0. Meanwhile, you may need to clean out your prefs.js file to remove the spurious lines.

With TBird CLOSED, go to your profile, and make a backup copy of your prefs.js file that you can revert to in case of problems. Then open prefs.js in a plain text editor (NOT a word processor like MSWord, Windows' Notepad will do). Find and delete any line with the string servers._nonascii_ in it. If it has gotten bad enough for the slowdown to be noticeable, you probably have hundreds of them.

Save the file under its original filename and location. If the editor you're using gives you a choice of formats, choose plain text or ascii."

IT WORKS: the original posting was by 'makaiguy ' - for further info, search the forums for "slow opening" - just passing on the info to others who are experiencing this bug..

solution above works - I had almost 2000 lines of junk in my prefs file. deleted them and Thunderbird is back to its snappy self.