The first alpha release of Thunderbird 3, the open source mail client built on the Gecko rendering engine (what Firefox and all other Mozilla products use), is now available as a developer preview. The Mozilla Messaging team has named this release “Shredder a1″ to signify that this release is early, buggy and should NOT be used in a production environment. Mozilla is aiming this release at testers and developers and we don’t recommend non-adventurous users taking the program out for a spin.
As the release notes point out, Shredder Alpha 1 is built on Gecko 1.9, the engine running Firefox 3.
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