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Firefox thunderbird email client1/13/2024 ![]() ![]() Not sure where all the negativity is coming from. ![]() Side note: can’t compare them to LibreOffice or Keepass, because I use MS Office and Bitwarden for that. Sometimes reinventing the wheel is worse than gradually improving it, but maybe that’s just me. In my opinion TB has a clear target audience, that’s not to say there are no improvements to be made or features to be added, but I think beginning from scratch requires a better reason than the user experience not being enough like eM. ![]() If TB was like eM or Outlook I would stop using it, there wouldn’t have been a reason to switch to it years ago. I feel like the way TB is, is more of an identity than devs being conservative. Setting up e-mail accounts is a process that is almost completely automatic, buttons and tasks are in locations that are easy to find and remember and I have never experienced inconvenience due to bugs or changes in general after updating. TB as well as Firefox are both really user friendly in my opinion. Now You: which features would you like to see in Thunderbird?Īs someone that does not consider itself tech-savvy or conservative, all I can tell you is that I have never considered Thunderbird being ‘stuck in the 90’s’ or ‘too geeky’. Those users who don't require sync can simply ignore it, similarly to how Firefox Sync can be ignored in Mozilla's browser. Users who install Thunderbird regularly on new devices or use it on more than one device will benefit from integrated data synchronization. Synchronization support is another milestone feature for Thunderbird. The team revealed already that some data will also be synced between desktop installations of the Thunderbird email client and Thunderbird for Android, which currently is still called K-9 Mail. New installs will pick up the settings automatically as well, provided that Sync is configured. With Sync in place, Thunderbird users have all changes synced across all their installations. All of these are not synced at the moment, which means that users have to make the changes in every instance of Thunderbird they run. Or take a newly created template, a new filtering rule, or modifications to Thunderbird settings. Without Sync, you'd have to add the contact in every Thunderbird installation on the same device or other devices. Imagine adding a user to a local address book in Thunderbird. The main idea behind introducing synchronization in Thunderbird is to improve setting up new Thunderbird installations and to make sure that cross-device Thunderbird installations use the same configuration and other data. While emails may get synced already between clients, courtesy of how things are set up in Thunderbird and thanks to how email servers operate, other data may not be synced at this point. You'll never lose your Thunderbird profile again. We are thrilled to share that we've already reached an important development milestone for Thunderbird Sync is up and running! ?Įmail, Calendar, and Contact syncing works without issue during internal testing. A much requested feature is data synchronization, and that is what Thunderbird will be getting in the upcoming release. Thunderbird 114 will be released next year, but work has already begun on adding important, and much requested, features to the email client. The development team released three point releases so far, which address issues in the new release. Thunderbird 102, the last milestone release, is still only available as a direct download and not an in-client upgrade. Syncing will focus on data that is not synced already this may include syncing address books, filters, Thunderbird preferences, templates and other data. ![]()
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