Emails clients don't need to change much to be honest. Thunderbird has been plugging along for around 15 years+ years now in some form or another and the more things change, the more it stays the same. It's kind of sad that a lot of what used to make the era of Outlook and Eudora so pleasant was that NO ONE wanted to get saddle with crappy things like Outlook Web or the early Yahoo web-based email UI. Pros: Still the best client around bar none.Ĭons: Has lost a lot of polish and love due to Firefox being the Mozilla developer's golden child.īottom Line: There's just no substitute for a good email client as using Web UI email stinks to high heaven. 78 has had a lot of growing pains and AddOn authors are still playing catch up. I can say with certainty that TB is not only alive and well but getting loads of fixing for the upcoming ESR release. This year's culling of workforce at Mozilla made me worried too. 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. It's paid off with both performance improvements and useability improvements that were long overdue. But, the Mozilla folks have enlisted a whole slew of new folks to address ancient bugs and beat the cruft out of TB.

Sadly, TB 78 ESR is still stuck on LLVM 9.0.1 and Rust 1.43. Ancient bunch finally getting attention.Ĭons: Not quite as peppy as Firefox using even the 64-bit version but years ahead of where it was since just this time last year.īottom Line: The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. TB is still the best client out there bar none. 2021 is going to be a great year for TB and Mozilla in general. I can personally attest to the HUGE amount of improvement I've seen in the latest betas I've been playing with. The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster.

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