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Thunderbird 115 Now Available and It Looks Fantastic

37 points by rcarmo 3y ago

skilled 3y ago
This article does not add anything to the ongoing discussion from a day ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664113
- werid 3y ago
  but it did remind me that it was now available to download, because it wasn't when the previous article was posted.
- unmole 3y ago
  > does not add anything That's true for the bulk of Phoronix.
roomey 3y ago
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!!
- bayindirh 3y ago
  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.
thunderbong 3y ago
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!
- skilled 3y ago
  This is what it looks like without an ad-blocker too, https://i.imgur.com/D0rryRK.png https://i.imgur.com/D0rryRK.png I get the whole "need to make money yada-yada" but that is insane even by my standards.
  - NikkiA 3y ago
    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.
rodoni 3y ago
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.
- perlgeek 3y ago
  Never happened to me, with several IMAP accounts. Are you using pop3 maybe?
  - rodoni 3y ago
    No only IMAP. But I have 3 accounts which download each day around 300 log e-mails.
    - trog 3y ago
      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.
zerr 3y ago
Can you get back the classic layout?
- Youden 3y ago
  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.

37 points by rcarmo 3y ago

This article does not add anything to the ongoing discussion from a day ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664113

werid 3y ago
but it did remind me that it was now available to download, because it wasn't when the previous article was posted.
unmole 3y ago
> does not add anything That's true for the bulk of Phoronix.

roomey 3y ago

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!!

bayindirh 3y ago
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.

thunderbong 3y ago

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!

skilled 3y ago
This is what it looks like without an ad-blocker too, https://i.imgur.com/D0rryRK.png https://i.imgur.com/D0rryRK.png I get the whole "need to make money yada-yada" but that is insane even by my standards.
- NikkiA 3y ago
  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.

rodoni 3y ago

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.

perlgeek 3y ago
Never happened to me, with several IMAP accounts. Are you using pop3 maybe?
- rodoni 3y ago
  No only IMAP. But I have 3 accounts which download each day around 300 log e-mails.
  - trog 3y ago
    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.

zerr 3y ago

Can you get back the classic layout?

Youden 3y ago
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.