Most of the tips posted here have been for Firefox 2/3. However this time around we have a Thunderbird 2/3 tip. Alex commented on the Thunderbird 2.0 Message Tags post: There must be some way to change the default tags. i like the tags themselves, but the default tags are kind of annoying. Any tricks for getting around this one? Yes, but you will need to have the About:Config add-on for Thunderbird (see TBird about:config for instructions). Note you could also access the editor from Tools, select Options…, Click the Advance Tab, select (if it is not already) the General…

Since I want to see how the whole message tagging system worked on TBird 3 (Shredder), so I went ahead downloaded and installed TBird 3 Alpha 2. This is it for the Thunderbird 3 Alpha builds. After I got Alpha 2 installed I changed over to the ‘Nightly’ Update Channel and downloaded Shredder/3.0b1pre. Cain’t say I am too thrilled with the new logo… What’s New in Shredder Alpha 2 There were over 300 bug fixes in this release, many laying the groundwork for future changes. Some notable changes include: Integration improvements Shredder can import mail from Mail.app on Mac OS…