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THUNDERBIRD 115 SUPERNOVA IS HERE! 🎉🍾

With this year’s version, we’re delivering much more than just another yearly release. Supernova represents a modernized overhaul of the software – both visually and technically – while retaining the familiarity and flexibility you expect.

It's your first step into the future of Thunderbird.

Get the details here:
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/o…

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email #Supernova


Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" Is Here!

More than just a yearly release, Supernova is a modernized overhaul of Thunderbird, but still feels comfortable and familiar.
Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
#email #opensource #thunderbird #supernova

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Ditol

I haven't used Thunderbird for two years or so now (due to some technical problens that Thunderbird caused with my e mail accounts after reinstallation). I would really like to give it another try, but I need to be able to import my old profile with all the archived messages and address book and so on. Is it possible to just copy and paste a 2 years old profile and use it? This used to be the standard way to migrate to a new machine, but will it work with several versions skipped?
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

@ditol Terrific question! You can absolutely use your old profile, but it comes with a caveat.

Our suggested upgrade path is to go back and install/use the verrsion associated with your profile, then go through and upgrade to every major new version.

For example, if you last used that profile with Thunderbird 91, start with the last point release of that version, 91.13.1. Then keep checking for updates until you're upgraded to the latest version.

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Adam Lein

The unlabeled buttons and hidden menus are going to reduce engagement and usability. This has been shown by every usability study on the subject for decades. See: bookofadamz.com/general-user-e… #UXdesign

General User Experience Design Guidance - Book of Adam Z

This page lists design guideline suggestions backed by logical reasoning that has often been proven in usability studies. Many GUI designers either ignore or don’t know about many of these basic rules that should probably be common sense.
Adam Z. Lein (Book of Adam Z)
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Koen de Jonge - SynQ

I will just wait until it pops up natively on #NixOS stable, cannot imagine that will take long.

I have no complaints about the current interface, but I don’t mind getting something a bit more in line with what is usual in interface design today too. 👍🏻

I have been a thunderbird user for decades now and I still recommend it to everybody!

Thank you very much!

#NixOS
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快乐的老鼠宝宝

新官网的发布是否过于草率？
我检查了以下，目前翻译完善的语言基本都是欧洲语言，还有很多社区的本地化字符串尚未准备好，从发布字符串到官网直接部署生产环境用时太短，一共才给了多少时间？很多都没来得及翻译！顺便可以看一下RTL语言的界面显示到底成了什么样子。
而且很多界面都不见了，对应的字符串全都浪费掉了，这次115版本的发布充分体现了Thunderbird对各个社区劳动成果的不尊重，对各个社区发布时间的不尊重。
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r3vilo

Looks good on screenshots. No more 90s #netscape look (I know it was a browser) and it seems now it'a usable for me 👍 To the older versions my brain always said no. ... I don't know if I will try it, because my web login works superb. Maybe when my actual #android client #k9mail will be renamed to #thunderbird then I could use it on desktop as well. Let's see.
#android #thunderbird #k9mail #netscape
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lese muir

congrats on the release and looking forward to further improvements in the next year or two~ blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…

Why We're Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch

"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.
Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)