Thunderbird Upgrade - Should I?

[Albert Wagner]

On 04/15/2012 08:47 AM, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> Would it be out of the question to consider upgrading to a newer
> release of Ubuntu?  11.0.1 is the default version in12.04 now...
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Graham Watkins
> <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm getting a nagging message on Thunderbird telling me to upgrade to the
>> latest version as the one I'm using will soon no longer be supported.  I've
>> downloaded the tarball for 11.01 from Mozilla but I am filled with
>> foreboding. Is it safe to install this over the top of my existing
>> Thunderbird installation or am I likely to trash something and/or lose all
>> my mail?
>>
>> Might it be safer to leave things alone until I decide to upgrade my entire
>> system?  I'm using Ubuntu 10.4.
>>
> You also might want to check out SolusOS.