Everyone who is anyone knows that Thunderbird 2.0 just came out today except it seems, Thunderbird itself. Ya see, it appears the creators didn’t inform it’s own creation of its replacement, via it’s supposedly helpful Check for Updates feature… which as you can see here doesn’t work. Maybe they wished to save their creation from knowing it’s been replaced by a younger, more prettier, Thunderbird? Hmmm…

Any-hoo, you have to give the nice Mozilla folks a tip of the hat in releasing a stable, well-tested minor version (masquerading as a major update just like they did with Firefox 2), a mere 3 weeks after relesing their RC1 beta version. The quick release of Thunderbird 2.0 final to the masses might account for their support forums exploding with users who are experiencing a ton of problems after they upgraded to Thunderbird 2. Which they had to do manually instead of telling their older versions of Thunderbird to update, using it’s own built-in update feature. Which wasn’t working. Which is usually a good sign NOT to update the software, geniuses.

*sigh* Oh well… I’ll update later, thanks - as my Thunderbird (v 1.5.0.10) works just fine and so do all it’s extensions. While I love the folks at Mozilla, they’re famous for making just about everything written for one version of Firefox or Thunderbird to suddenly not be compatible with the next version even if it’s a minor release. Forcing extension, plugin and theme developers to constantly redo their work almost every upgrade. Which causes developers to stop developing and abandoning their creations after time due to the stupidity of it all.

Genius. Sheer genius, peeps. Way to go, Mozilla!