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The Thunderbird Beta channel just updated to version 126.0b1, and it brings major visual improvements to Cards View! 😍
(Shown here with all visible messages selected.)

A big round of applause to Micah and Sol from our UX team for their awesome work on this, and to our community for your valuable feedback here and on our #Thunderbird UX mailing list (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…).

Comparison of two Thunderbird email client interfaces, one labeled Thunderbird 115 and the other Thunderbird Beta, both showing an inbox with a list of highlighted/selected emails.

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Jorge Candeias
Jorge Candeias
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That's cool. But I'm getting more and more worried about the state of the #RSS reader in #thunderbird

Before, it read all the feeds on my list of feeds to read. No sweat, no drama. Now it's reading less and less of a chunk. It' starts reading and then simply stops without telling me why. I'm having to subdivide the list into sublists and call the reader on each to have them read in full. That's very annoying. And time-consuming.

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patpro
patpro
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COME ON! There is no improvement when — for the same pixel count — you go from 14 items to 10 items on display :(
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fiberdrive
fiberdrive
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@patpro
I believe Thunderbird is keeping the options to keep using the older "card view" in future releases. Also, in this case, it improves email readability significantly, with better separation, but if your only metric for improvements is the densest pixels per email, you could use the list view.
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@fiberdrive Indeed, Table View is probably the option for you @patpro And you can also choose a more compact density.
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Luca
Luca
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The alignment on the top bar still feels off, doesn't it?
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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And here's a quick video of the updated Cards View in action, when selecting a conversation with new replies.

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Café-Junkie
Café-Junkie
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I would like to suggest to always set the buttons (icons) to the left or right to remove the third line this way.
Having a mostly empty third line doesn't make much sense.
IF there are replies and a third line is needed, THEN it's okay to have such. But if that's not the case there must not be an empty line.
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@CafeJunkie The empty space you're probably referencing will eventually display a message preview.
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Café-Junkie
Café-Junkie
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Okay, so there is simply no example of a message with message text?
In the gif the third line is mostly empty, just a star-icon, a paperclip-icon or the button to expand the replies...
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Anselm Schüler
Anselm Schüler
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Why not move the bottom right buttons up and only show a third line when something like the “𝑛 replies” button needs to be shown?
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dried
dried
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Looks really good! Any plans to look at forks in reply-all threads? Eg, where one participant replies to you alone. Currently it's still grouped under the original thread, and mixed in with forks from other participants.
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Tristan
Tristan
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it is much nicer to the eye. I known that it is not a popular metric among free software users, but it is really important for my experience and adoption.
However I agree that it seems a little bit too roomy.
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Filipe Saraiva
Filipe Saraiva
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amazing but I will be that guy saying pls bring feature X where X = system tray support on Linux :)
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dist
dist
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It's nice to have a new look. But it seems busier even than the current design
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Kyle R. Conway
Kyle R. Conway
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Looks wonderful! I assume keyboard navigation shortcuts will still be in play!

Many thanks for great improvements!

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vivahyar
vivahyar
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Looks like even the new cards view will miss one major feature - option to delete message without selecting message.
Both Gmail and Outlook (also new one) display "trash icon" when you hover over the card.
This is extremely helpful to speed up cleaning the inbox.
Can you please add this feature? Thanks in advance ;-)
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Brenno Lemos
Brenno Lemos
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Looks fantastic! Any chance we can get a peek at it in dark mode? 👀
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TheWK
TheWK
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looks nice, but please tell me, I am still able do disable conversations. They don’t allow a proper inbox workflow.
If so, nice job, can’t wait for it.
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Jens Axboe
Jens Axboe
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When are you going to fix your setup to not just blindly assume people are running x86-64 binaries?
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ኢራ עירא Ira عيرا 🍓🎗️
ኢራ עירא Ira عيرا 🍓🎗️
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can I offer a feature to focus on? I get long rich html newsletters, and I can't search them. Ctrl-F is greyed in the edit menu. The technology exists, why can't I search texts?

I tried saving, renaming the .eml to
.html, load them in Firefox, and then search worked odd, but that's for a different ticket ;)

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@I This would be a great suggestion for Mozilla Connect! connect.mozilla.org is where all our suggestions live and can get in front of the community and developers!

Mozilla Connect

Share product feedback, submit ideas for new features, and help shape future releases.
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