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Thunderbird in 2019

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 2nd of January 2019 09:36:39 AM Filed under
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Our team grew considerably in 2018, to eight staff working full-time on Thunderbird. At the beginning of this year we are going to be adding as many as six new members to our team. Most of these people with the exception of this author (Ryan Sipes, Community Manager) are engineers who will be focused on making Thunderbird more stable, faster, and easier to use (more on this below).

The primary reason we’ve been able to do this is an increase in donors to the project. We hope that anyone reading this will consider giving to Thunderbird as well. Donations from individual contributors are our primary source of funding, and we greatly appreciate all our supporters who made this year so successful!

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Thunderbird In 2019 To Focus On Performance & UI/UX Improvements

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 2nd of January 2019 07:32:44 PM.
  • Thunderbird In 2019 To Focus On Performance & UI/UX Improvements

    As a longtime Thunderbird user going back to its original release, the details Mozilla revealed today about their development focus on their mail client for 2019 have me excited and adding to what I am looking forward to in 2019.

    For the year ahead, the Mozilla developers working on the Thunderbird project will be focusing on performance improvements (in particular, "addressing UI slowness") and general performance enhancements, UI/UX improvements, improved notification support, encryption and other settings improvements, and much more.

Joey Sneddon's take

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 3rd of January 2019 10:37:07 AM.
  • Thunderbird to Get a UI Refresh, Better Gmail Support in 2019

    The dev team behind the Thunderbird e-mail client have detailed their ambitions for the coming year — and if you’re a fan of fast, pretty things, you’re gonna be pretty well pleased.

    Mozilla’s desktop email client might not be as popular as its desktop browser, but Thunderbird remains a venerable app with a large following. After all, it still comes pre-installed in a slate of major Linux distributions, including (no prizes for guessing) Ubuntu.

    But should the effort teased in a new year blog post happen, Thunderbird could find itself enjoying something of a revival…

"Thunderbird Also Publishes a Retrospective and Look Forward,"

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 3rd of January 2019 12:01:46 PM.

Now in CBS

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 3rd of January 2019 02:21:57 PM.
  • Mozilla: Open-source Thunderbird getting new look, better Gmail support, encryption

    Thunderbird will be getting some much needed attention in the coming year, with the Mozilla-backed project planning to hire six new developers — bringing the project's employed headcount to 14 — who will work to make the email client more stable, faster, and easier to use.

    Mozilla Corporation handed off Thunderbird to the community in 2014, but Mozilla Foundation still supports it.

    According to Thunderbird community manager Ryan Sipes, the team will be working this year to improve Thunderbird's user interface (UI) and user experience, with better Gmail support and native notifications for Windows, Mac and Linux — the three operating systems Thunderbird supports for its 25 million users.

Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client to get UI refresh

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 3rd of January 2019 05:30:39 PM.

By: Sean Michael Kerner

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 3rd of January 2019 10:32:43 PM.
  • Mozilla Looks to Improve Email With 2019 Thunderbird Roadmap

    Mozilla, an organization that is best known for its Firefox web browser, is starting 2019 by renewing focus on its Thunderbird email client. It's a move that comes after a meandering 20-year path for the open-source organization's email efforts.

    Email is not a new thing for Mozilla, and to understand how long the organization has been grappling with developing an email client, it's important to go back and look at the history of the internet itself. Mozilla has its roots in the Netscape browser, which in its final years had a full suite known as Netscape Communicator that included both email and web browser applications. The original Mozilla suite that debuted in 1998 included both email and browser capabilities.

    In 2003, Mozilla split its email and browser efforts into two groups, one for browsers that led to Firefox and the other effort for email, which is where Thunderbird comes in. So yeah, Mozilla has been trying to build traction for its stand-alone email client for 16 years, with a lot of ups and downs along the way.

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