Google Moves Desktop Search Out of Beta

PC Magazine reports -

Google Moves Desktop Search Out of Beta

Normally I would not make much of this except ( every successive release seems to be doing the same thing - improved speed, even quicker search result etc) for the fact that this release is quite relevant for me as it includes two features -

support for Firefox & Thuderbird.

These two applications are where I am normally spend around 50% of my official time as part of my job. Great news for me. Download available at -

http://desktop.google.com/?promo=hpp-gds-en-v1-1

Never to be left behind the Mozilla community had a specific plugin to achieve this.
I had been using the Slogger Plugin for this purpose.