New in Thunderbird 78

by deepersprout on 9/17/2020, 6:49:33 AM with 44 comments

  • by boomskats on 9/17/2020, 9:40:26 AM

    Thought I'd already read all this. And then installed it and used it.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23864934

  • by elric on 9/17/2020, 10:08:00 AM

    I haven't updated yet, but I sure hope those "address bar pills" are editable ... That's one of my major peeves in webmail clients, which means a typo in the email address requires me to retype the whole thing.

  • by sequence7 on 9/17/2020, 9:32:48 AM

    Is anyone successfully using Thunderbird with Office 365 + Google for calendars and mail? I've found various plugins but never got both working consistently for both services. Imap, caldav, etc. are a breeze but unfortunately work requirements mean I need to use the two big non-standards.

  • by pinpox on 9/17/2020, 2:46:06 PM

    It's great that it supports PGP/GPG out of the box now, but it broke the support for yubikey/smarcards, which is really important for me.

    I hope the add support for encrypted and signed mails with smarcards soon, meanwhile I will have to use something else.

  • by ddon on 9/17/2020, 11:23:01 AM

    New thunderbird is not working with our current mail server and doesn't show any helpful error message, is there any way to check what is not right? and probably I am not alone with this problem...

  • by benfrain on 9/17/2020, 11:45:55 AM

    I’d like to see it pushed out to dnf repositories. Loathe to do a manual install and then have to do an install in a few days via dnf. Still the 68 branch showing in Fedora

  • by Normille on 9/20/2020, 2:11:54 PM

    Holy God! --talk about having been beaten by the Ugly Stick. What the hell where they thinking?

  • by mixmastamyk on 9/17/2020, 6:38:26 PM

    A while back I reverted to TB 68 (now 68.10.0), because a newer one broke something. Unfortunately can't remember what it was.

  • by laktak on 9/17/2020, 1:35:56 PM

    Wondering after every update ... Thunderbird has had tabs for years but you can still not write a new message in a tab.

  • by brightball on 9/17/2020, 1:05:16 PM

    Is there an upgrade path from 68 yet?

  • by konart on 9/17/2020, 11:28:20 AM

    >REDESIGNED COMPOSE WINDOW

    While you were at it you could've align UI elements.

  • by oooooooooooow on 9/17/2020, 1:12:43 PM

    I welcome the addition of dark mode, but isn't it time we take a look at why the whole program's UI freezes for tens of seconds when wrangling more than 2 accounts?

  • by Chetane on 9/17/2020, 2:41:55 PM

    One major (and unexpected) issue I ran into with Thunderbird is font size. On my monitor, it's way too small to be usable.

    The recommended fix appears to mess with the `layout.css.devPixelsPerPx` configuration and even then, font is inconsistent when moving from external monitor to laptop screen.

  • by chromedev on 9/17/2020, 9:17:12 AM

    If they made a way to configure it using YAML I'd be tempted to switch.