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Re: Thunderbird 115

#191

What am I missing here? I'm running "Version 102.11.0, first offered to channel users on May 10, 2023", and this is 13 versions ahead?

As I recall the team has been jumping the main/release branch by larger numbers as beta moves through more polish effectively making release the long-term servicing/ESR branch so 115 will start to be offered tomorrow.

Re: Thunderbird 115

#192
post #64

Anyone have an opinion on how Betterbird[0] compares to Thunderbird? I've installed it recently to circumvent a recent design change in Thunderbird but have a hard time assessing whether it's a worthwhile long-term alternative and a project worthy of support. [0] https://www.betterbird.eu/

Oh wow, it works in the system tray. Sold!

Re: Thunderbird 115

#193

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I like how you conveniently left out that you're using a retina display until maybe your fifth post complaining about this. It's possible that none of the developers can afford to buy a $2000 laptop for testing. If the icons are obviously fuzzy on your machine, grab a screenshot, post a bug on the bug tracker, and let it be. I assume also that you are already a substantial monthly donor. If not, then I think all this…

The marketing site says this:

> Our new designs remain sharp and pixel-perfect at any density setting.

Why are you having a go at someone who's just saying that the icons are fuzzy? If it's true it's true.

Re: Thunderbird 115

#194

At this point, whenever something says "maximize your freedoms" and does not explain further, I think it is adding spyware or otherwise restricting my choices. Decades of US policy doublespeak, I guess...

I guess this applies to TB PR too:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...

Re: Thunderbird 115

#195
post #116

The tone and level of entitlement of some comments is astonishing. Thunderbird is a free and open source tool, used by many (including me). The least we can do is to be a little nicer.

I love thunderbird but I don't understand their update schedules. I just now got an update (thought it would be to 115) but it's to 102 [1]. In the release notes of 102 it says it was made public only 5 days ago (and they say 115 is coming soon). And seemingly it can't update to 115? Am I missing something here? [1] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.13.0/relea... [edit] okay it seems 115 is not yet re…

102.13.0 was released a few days ago.

102.x has been out for a while.

When you receive an update to it depends on your distro or whether you have it installed as a Snap or Flatpak, etc.

Re: Thunderbird 115

#196
post #70
post #66

Out of curiosity, what UI framework is used here? Electron? something else? EDIT: On 2nd thought I'm thinking this is XUL, Mozilla's sort of electron equivalent for an HTML/CSS UI?

They did use XULRunner in the past, but probably something else nowadays.

Actually, Thunderbird was never on XULRunner; it always relied on linking all of its code into libxul. For some strange reason, many of the C++ string APIs are different depending on when you linked into or outside of libxul, which meant it was a lot of chore to maintain a build that worked on XULRunner, and the project was never completed before Mozilla killed XULRunner in favor of embedding stories that never lasted more than a year or two.

Re: Thunderbird 115

#197
post #2

I just want to small, simple, fast, low memory browser that shows pages - I don't want 1,000,000 features and confusions.

Duh - I want the simlle browser too. I use TB daily but the comment still applies. I want it to do just email, simply and correctly.

Most of the "smart" features just seem to get in th way :(

Re: Thunderbird 115

#199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing i've noticed is that the search bar is awful at finding anything, but the search tool (Ctrl+Shift+F) works much better.

Same here. I am exclusively using the quick filter box (Ctrl+Shift+K). I would like that the filter bar be never hidden.

Filter is awesome. It's more limited in what you can search but it's blazingly fast and pretty much always does the job for me.

Re: Thunderbird 115

#200
post #130

Does it still crash with lots of mail? I have mail filters and get like 500 mail a day. Always crashes. It gives me the option to wait or kill the app. I blame the mbox folders.

I've got over 10GB in my profile and have no issue although I use maildir and I believe I converted precisely because it was so slow.
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