installing thunderbird 1.0.2

[Philippe Landau]

Philippe Landau wrote:
> mozilla finally released an update for their email application:
> http://www.mozilla.org/
> after downloading it, quit thunderbird, right-click extract-here,
> enter the folder, cut the folder "thunderbird"
> and place it wherever you want it to run,
> for example in /home/yourusername/aps/
> in that folder, doubleclick "thunderbird".
> you can make a shortcut to it by right-clicking in
> an empty space of a menu panel, add to panel,
> custom application launcher.
> 
> then in your home directory,
> make invisible files visible,
> and rename .mozilla-thunderbird to .thunderbird
wrong order of events of course :-)
first rename the .mozilla-thunderbird folder,
then start the new thunderbird.

also, feel free to seize this occasion
to make a backup of the new .thunderbird folder
(right-click, make archive).

kind regards     philippe