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Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#11

Post by Kelteseth »

GlitchMr wrote: post #10
Tomte wrote: post #9

Can someone explain what the deal with 91 is? I'm on 78, and no updates are found. On the submission's web site there is "Thunderbird version 91.0 is only offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 78 or earlier." Why is that? Is upgrading safe? And thunderbird.net only offers me 78, anyway.

Updates are delayed to give add-on developers time to update their add-ons to be compatible with Thunderbird 91 if changes are necessary.

Why? Isn't that what alpha and betas are for?

Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#12

Post by Kelteseth »

foray1010 wrote: post #7

seems download link is still not available in the homepage, if u are interested: https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/r...

And for all other none mac people https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/r...

Edit: Just installed x64 91 over my 32x Thunderbird 78, no issues so far :)

Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#13

Post by liotier »

cube00 wrote: post #4

CardDAV address book support Although it's sad that this will replace the plugins that provide this feature, it's good to see support built into the core and a continued investment in implementing standards.

I wonder about migration from plugins to that new core feature. I hope it doesn't break anything.

Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#14

Post by janci »

untoxicness wrote: post #2

> Ability to change order of accounts in UI I was always perplexed when I had to change the ordering of my accounts and still had to do it manually by editing the configuration after all these years. A big improvement for sure!

I screwed up the configuration multiple times trying to do this. Thanks god for this feature.

Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#15

Post by tehbeard »

Kelteseth wrote: post #11
GlitchMr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Updates are delayed to give add-on developers time to update their add-ons to be compatible with Thunderbird 91 if changes are necessary.

Why? Isn't that what alpha and betas are for?

There was a pretty significant departure in how the plugin/add-on ecosystem worked iirc. Not just a case of switching out a few deprecated function calls.

Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#17

Post by ulrikrasmussen »

I've used Thunderbird for many years, but recently switched to KMail because that has proper search functionality. In KMail, I can instantly search for a keyword in all my emails from the last one and a half decade, whereas this takes several minutes in Thunderbird, and during the search the UI is unusable because the result list is incrementally populated which makes it impossible to actually click on results reliably, or even just scroll.

Other than that, Thunderbird works great. I'm just puzzled why search has not received more attention, as it seems like a pretty important feature to many people.

edit: I know about NotMuch by the way, and actually used that to search and then navigated to the result in Thunderbird afterwards by sorting by date. But that got annoying in the long run.

Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#19

Post by SilverRed »

Kelteseth wrote: post #11
GlitchMr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Updates are delayed to give add-on developers time to update their add-ons to be compatible with Thunderbird 91 if changes are necessary.

Why? Isn't that what alpha and betas are for?

Plugin developers don't bother testing on the betas. They wait until an update breaks things and then work based on user complaints.

And who can blame them really, no one pays them to work on these plugins. If you wanted to make sure your plugins worked before an update than you should go test them on a beta yourself.

Unfortunately delaying an update doesn't really solve the problem as developers still wait for the "its broken" reports before fixing things.

Re: Thunderbird 91.0

#20

Post by Tomte »

Tomte wrote: post #9

Can someone explain what the deal with 91 is? I'm on 78, and no updates are found. On the submission's web site there is "Thunderbird version 91.0 is only offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 78 or earlier." Why is that? Is upgrading safe? And thunderbird.net only offers me 78, anyway.

> And thunderbird.net only offers me 78, anyway.

It seems to be downloadable here: https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/r...

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