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Thunderbird 115 Now Available and It Looks Fantastic

phoronix.com

37 pointsrcarmo14 comments

This is the whole article!

> Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" brings a dynamic unified toolbar, icon improvements and other design enhancements, a new tags view, improvements to the address book, and much more.

Plus a screenshot!

This is what it looks like without an ad-blocker too,

https://i.imgur.com/D0rryRK.png

I get the whole "need to make money yada-yada" but that is insane even by my standards.

Somehow the justification of 'people use adblockers, so we must serve 10 ads just in case someone is using a bad ad blocker that lets one through accidently' is even more insane.

With several addresses configured on Thunderbird it always stutters the first minutes of using it until all new mails are downloaded. This issue does not seem to be fixed and at least for me would bring more benefit instead of a redefined GUI.

Never happened to me, with several IMAP accounts. Are you using pop3 maybe?

No only IMAP. But I have 3 accounts which download each day around 300 log e-mails.

I recently turned off the global indexing and it has improved performance immensely. I actually don't use that search that much so I'm going to try it without for a while and see how I go with the basic search stuff.

This article does not add anything to the ongoing discussion from a day ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664113

> does not add anything

That's true for the bulk of Phoronix.

but it did remind me that it was now available to download, because it wasn't when the previous article was posted.

Can you get back the classic layout?

Yes. I'm using it built from source and as far as I can tell, the classic layout is the default. The sidebar and search bar are still there, though I haven't tried to turn them off.

Thunderbird really made me appreciate snaps on Ubuntu.

There was a buggy native version released at one point, and the repo was a bit delayed in getting the new version (it's my daily driver so pretty impacting).

I saw the snap version was up to date, and tried it. It worked which was all well and good. But a while later another buggy version came out which made me oauth authenticate repeatedly. A single command reverted the snap, no version pinning or anything.

A lovely way to install these larger complex programs (don't get me wrong, apt install is 98% of my system).

Congrats to the thunderbird team, thanks for making such a great program that makes work that bit more tolerable!!

You can equally download the .tar.gz from Mozilla, extract it to your "~/programs" or somewhere, and it updates itself automatically.

This is how I'm using the beta for the last six months or so.

There's no need to snap that thing.

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