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Itβs our first step towards a more modern, more beautiful, and more customizable Thunderbird experience. We think youβre going to love it, and we are endlessly grateful for all of your support throughout the years π
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I waited for Thunderbird to get good for so long, I ended migrating to emClient... Looks great, but I don't think I feel like resetting all my devices and systems again
That looks awesome!
This looks great. Would be awesome if i could host this in a docmer container so i dont need to manage installs on clients.
That's what Ansible is for. Stuffing a gui app in a container still leaves you with the job of actually having to deploy it, anyway.
Good idea, ill look into that. Been meaning to learn ansible for some time now anyways.
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Are there any plans for tray icon and desktop notification support? Those features are the only reason I would run a desktop email client, without them I'll just use a browser. I know Birdtray exists but I can't get it to work with flatpak Thunderbird.
There may be solutions for your issue. https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray/issues/514
Maybe try birdtray flatpak or using the special launch argument as described in the link from the comment.
The desktop notifications are built in now. As for tray, I'm trying out systray-x.
Oh thank cthulu, I've been waiting for this for ages. I'm so glad Thunderbird is getting some much needed love.
I would need JMAP support before I would consider a native email client again.
JMAP might be nice but sadly there are neither servers nor clients that support it outside of Fastmail.
I know - itβs a chicken and egg thing.
Just finished setting up thunderbird. The new design looks amazing! Although it has some UX problems, I hope they'll get resolved along the way.
Overall, pleased, and migrated all of my inboxes to it!
Can single-key shortcuts finally be changed/disabled? I can't count the number of times I thought I had focus in a different element or even different application and accidentally archived, marked as spam or otherwise hid several e-mails just by a typing a single word.
Loving it so far! Anyone know how to change the font or font size when you view the message body as plain text rather than HTML? All the font settings I could find in the gui are not changing it.
It took one release for Thunderbird to go from a pretty ancient looking program to one of the best looking ones out there.
I've tried Thunderbird and wasn't convinced.. My work life is basically email, and I've tried several email apps over the years, a lot more than most people. I've found Postbox on desktop and Spark on mobile to be the magic pair for me so far. Unless Postbox fails me, I don't think I'll bother trying anything else anytime soon... Though I'm open to suggestions for mobile, since there's room for improvement with Spark.
It's well past 15:00 EST and the version I get when downloading is 102.13.0 for some reason.
Edit: solved by itself after some minutes, probably a CDN thing.
That definitely looks different. I assume they still haven't put the system tray functionality back?
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Oh that's cool.
I'm definitely very boomer in that I still prefer to get my email via Thunderbird rather than through a web browser!
I've been using Thunderbird for ages. I like the card view, although I still prefer the list view with no preview if I have a ton of messages to go through.
Does anyone know if they've fixed performance? Thunderbird feels really slow to navigate and fetch messages.
Oh no! It looks like an electron app.
Is it one though? I'm having a difficult time finding the source code of this new version.
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Can anyone confirm whether or not it's built on Electron?
The closest I can find is from Feb 2023, saying that at that time it would not be Electron:
Mozilla also still plans to use the Firefox web browser as the core platform for Thunderbird. That leaves Thunderbird as one of the few cross-platform mail applications that isnβt an Electron app or based on web technologies in some way
So possibly Electron-like but based on Firefox rather than Chromium?
Electron apps bundle chromiumβ¦. It would be ridiculous for Mozilla to bundle their competitions web browser to make Thunderbird lol.
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Eh... it's pretty, I guess, but it's just too "appified" for power users. My Thunderbird UI is festooned with useful buttons and menus for quick access, and I like the old style of having elements tightly spaced to maximize contextual awareness.
This reeks of form over function. Yuck.
You can still customize a lot, they just hide a bunch of extra functionality in the customization menu.