title: Updating Thunderbird link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/updating-thunderbird/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 2452 created: 2012/04/02 16:37:51 created_gmt: 2012/04/02 20:37:51 comment_status: closed post_name: updating-thunderbird status: publish post_type: post

Updating Thunderbird

As I've mentioned previously, I recently went back to Mozilla Thunderbird as my primary e-mail client. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux this inevitably has required I download the latest installer. While the upstream package works just fine, Mozilla's mail client, like their Firefox browser, gets better in every (accelerated) major version. Currently RHEL 6 ships with T-bird 10, while the latest from Mozilla is 11.0.1. In most cases I try to stick with the distribution (or 3rd party) when installing software. That becomes difficult when you're talking about desktop software that tends to have a much more aggressive release cycle.

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