To see if your PC is ready for Thunderbird, Your computer system must have the following minimum requirements for installing :
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Windows
Operating Systems
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
Minimum Hardware
- Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
- Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP: 768 MB RAM (Recommended: 1GB RAM or greater)
- Windows 2000: 256 MB RAM (Recommended: 512 MB RAM or greater)
- 52 MB hard drive space
Mac
Operating Systems
- Mac OS X 10.4.x and later
Minimum Hardware
- Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
- 256 MB RAM (Recommended: 512 MB RAM or greater)
- 200 MB hard drive space
Linux
Software RequirementsPlease note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
- Thunderbird will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:
- GTK+ 2.10 or higher
- GLib 2.12 or higher
- Pango 1.14 or higher
- X.Org 1.0 or higher
- For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:
- NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
- DBus 1.0 or higher
- HAL 0.5.8 or higher
- GNOME 2.16 or higher