I didn’t have to enter whether the account was POP3 or IMAP or any other sort of information other than the email address I wished to use and my name and password, making the setup process very streamlined. Tabs in Thunderbird work much like those in Firefox, except the user opens messages in the tabs. I found this particularly beneficial when trying to gather information from an assortment of similar emails. Being able to keep them all open and reference each message quickly saved me time and frustration.Īs with most clients, Thunderbird has a message search utility. However, the neat thing about this utility is that it allows the user to filter the messages and the service groups them under relevant categories. The search results automatically open in an appropriately labeled tab. One other neat thing is that for Windows 7, Vista and Macs with the Spotlight feature, the search results are integrated into the desktop search function, according to CNET.įor those that have a lot of email addresses stored in Address Book, this feature could save a lot of time.Īccording to several sources, add-ons are much easier to get with the new version of Thunderbird because of its built in, Firefox search engine. A couple of these add-ons allow integration with both the Google and Yahoo calendar functions. For those that already have a lot of information built into another account, this could also be a nice time-saving feature. Last but not least, Smart Folders make keeping track of multiple email accounts much simpler. The software combines all incoming messages into a single inbox, which means less time spent checking multiple accounts.The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. Sadly, TB 78 ESR is still stuck on LLVM 9.0.1 and Rust 1.43. But, the Mozilla folks have enlisted a whole slew of new folks to address ancient bugs and beat the cruft out of TB.
It's paid off with both performance improvements and useability improvements that were long overdue.
A few years ago when Mozilla anounced TB was no longer going to be developed and put on life support, it was a tragic bit of news. This year's culling of workforce at Mozilla made me worried too. I can say with certainty that TB is not only alive and well but getting loads of fixing for the upcoming ESR release. 78 has had a lot of growing pains and AddOn authors are still playing catch up.
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