New in Thunderbird 78

by deepersprouton 9/17/2020, 6:49 AMwith 44 comments

by boomskatson 9/17/2020, 9:40 AM

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

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

by elricon 9/17/2020, 10:08 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 sequence7on 9/17/2020, 9:32 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 pinpoxon 9/17/2020, 2:46 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 ddonon 9/17/2020, 11:23 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 benfrainon 9/17/2020, 11:45 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 Normilleon 9/20/2020, 2:11 PM

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

by mixmastamykon 9/17/2020, 6:38 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 laktakon 9/17/2020, 1:35 PM

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

by brightballon 9/17/2020, 1:05 PM

Is there an upgrade path from 68 yet?

by konarton 9/17/2020, 11:28 AM

>REDESIGNED COMPOSE WINDOW

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

by oooooooooooowon 9/17/2020, 1:12 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 Chetaneon 9/17/2020, 2:41 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 chromedevon 9/17/2020, 9:17 AM

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