Thunderbird Upgrade - Should I?

[Graham Watkins]

On 15/04/12 14:47, 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Graham
>>
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Maybe, but I've  been sticking with 10.04 because I haven't been happy 
with the way Ubuntu seems to be going.  I expect at some point I'll have 
to make a change but at the moment, I'm checking out alternatives in 
Virtualbox.

Graham