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Comment by CuriousRose | Hacker News Reader

Can’t wait for my 75 year old father to call me for tech support when the app auto-migrates, changes layouts, corrupts the mail profile or requires sign in for licence validation. Thunderbird is just as bad, there is a new UI change every few months (and they all make it worse).

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So maybe thunderbird isn't ideal for you because it keeps changing... but I do know for a fact you can disable auto updating in Thunderbird. I would much rather set up a 75 year old with something that will stay the same AND allow installing older versions, than something I don't fully trust will obey the "Disable auto-updates" checkbox.

Thunderbird is just as bad, there is a new UI change every few months (and they all make it worse).

Turn off automatic updates.

Out of all software to disable auto-updates on, email clients are probably the riskiest, given how much use they get and that they are the number one vector for delivering malware.

There's already been a privilege escalation found this year in Thunderbird.

Actually my Thunderbird looks the same for many years now. I set it to a specific layout and it keeps that way. Either distro package maintainers keep this layout change from disrupting me, or I have configured it in a way that even when updates come, I still have my usual oldschool layout with high information density.

I too was disappointed to see Thunderbird copy the atrocious Outlook layout. I am sorry, I get 50 e-mails a day, not 3. Outlook is a child's toy and I hope Thunderbird does not turn into one as well.

Agreed. Very disappointed that Thunderbird went the direction they did.

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