Read all about our exciting story and get a sneak peak at the next chapter with @ryanleesipes , Product and Business Development Manager for Thunderbird, who just celebrated his 6th work anniversary! 🎉

Ryan takes us from 2012, when Thunderbird was transitioned to community support, to plans for long, bright future. You'll laugh, cry, and cheer as you read - and maybe even help us bring Thunderbird and e-mail privacy everywhere! 💙

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/11/t…

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Mozilla

An Untold History of Thunderbird

WHY was Thunderbird 115 called "Supernova?" What caused the press to declare Thunderbird dead back in 2012? And how did we turn the ship around? Ryan Sipes answers these questions and much more in his personal recollection of Thunderbird's history.

^{Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Like the legend of the phoenix, we're resurrecting Mozilla Send, an end-to-end encrypted file share service, and bringing it under our wings as Thunderbird Send. In this clip from S1E5 of the ThunderCast, developer Chris Aquino gives us a sneak peek of the new - wait, old - er, reborn project!

Learn how #Thunderbird Send will help you overcome your file upload woes, respect your privacy, safeguard against abuse, and hopefully change your #email experience for the better.

#Development #Mozilla

"Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet."

Just #mozilla making your #firefox more privacy preserving, as we are wont to do.

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet.

As web users, what we say and do online is subject to pervasive surveillance. Although we typically associate online tracking with ad networks and other th

^{Sarah Vasquez (The Mozilla Blog)}

Mozilla: "In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"

blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/202…
#france #browser #cybersecurity #mozilla #security #surveillance

France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet - Open Policy & Advocacy

Article 3 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.

^{Udbhav Tiwari (Open Policy & Advocacy)}

#Mozilla #Thunderbird 115 Reaches Beta with Updated UI and Improved OpenPGP Support 9to5linux.com/thunderbird-115-…

@thunderbird #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!

We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.

Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

#Podcast #Firefox #OpenSource #Dev #Email #Linux

ThunderCast Episode #2: With Special Mozilla Guest Mike Conley

Mozilla's Mike Conley joins us to discuss the nostalgia of the early internet, his first task for Thunderbird, and some great Firefox features

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

⌛ 6 years and counting since #Mozilla promised to release #Pocket under an #OpenSource license.

🤨 Will #Fakespot get the same false promises?

Thank you for the recent surge of ideas at Mozilla Connect. Have you checked out the newest suggestions?

connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/i…

Vote on the ones you believe in, and discuss them too.

#Thunderbird #Mozilla #Ideas

We are actively monitoring your Thunderbird feature suggestions at Mozilla Connect, but “voting up” ideas from the community is crucial.

There are currently 287 Thunderbird ideas at Connect, many of which need more discussion and votes.

Here are the top 20:
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/04/t…

#Thunderbird #Community #Mozilla #Email

These Top 20 Thunderbird Feature Requests Need Your Vote

Lend your voice and your votes to more than 250 Thunderbird feature requests. The Thunderbird team is listening!

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

We've lined up some awesome guests for the next 3 episodes of #ThunderCast:

Episode 2: Mike Conley of #Mozilla, a software mechanic who works on #Firefox desktop.

Episode 3: Mike Saunders, who does marketing and community outreach for @libreoffice.

Episode 4: Thib Martin @thibaultamartin, a GNOME Foundation Board member who also has a special talent for making people love @matrix.

Get subscribed, some great conversations are coming!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/t…

#Matrix #Podcast #Thunderbird

The Official Thunderbird Podcast Is Here!

Welcome to the debut episode of the ThunderCast, an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, with community conversations about open source.

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

@thunderbird, I'm enjoying the updated Thunderbird 112 Beta UI, but I was wondering if you could give us the option to disable the tab area and/or the new top menubar depending on how we configure our UI. If I choose to use the left-most vertical menubar, the other areas seem redundant and take up space. Otherwise, I like the new direction! 👍

#Email #Mail #Mozilla #Thunderbird #UI #UX #Outlook #Office #Office365 #Microsoft365 #OfficeSuite #Alternative #PIM #Tasks #Events #Calendar #Contacts

In fact, I learnt a lot about how #Thunderbird and @mozilla are actually related, and I always thought it's a hardwired #Mozilla product just like #Firefox.

I'm really looking forward to the improvements in Supernova and also future updates to #K9Mail. I used to be a #GMail user but ran into performance problems on older devices and under bad networking conditions. Not a problem for good old #IMAP! :)

Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast!

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#Thunderbird #Podcast #OpenSource #Email #Mozilla

ThunderCast #1: Origin Stories | ThunderCast | Episode 1

Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast! It's an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, alongside community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source world.

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Who's checking out #MozFest next week? We'll be in virtual attendance, and this is one of the talks we're excited about (for obvious reasons):

▶️ Dialogues & Debates: Making the Fediverse | Mozilla is joining the Fediverse in 2023 to co-create its future. What are its greatest opportunities and limitations? How can we scale methodology and not solutions? What is the public discourse square of the future? Who is building it?

schedule.mozillafestival.org/s…

#Mozilla #Fediverse #Mastodon

Mozilla Festival 2023 Schedule

Mozilla Festival 2023 Schedule. Activists in the internet health movement will gather at MozFest to move the needle in tech, art, social responsibility, ethics, and AI. Will you join us?

^{schedule.mozillafestival.org}

Soeben habe ich 20.- CHF sinnvoll ausgegeben; #thunderbird von #mozilla ist auf unsere #Spende angewiesen. Vielleicht kannst ja auch Du mithelfen, dass dieses sinnvolle Projekt in Zukunft weiter existiert:

give.thunderbird.net

#Hilfe #opensource #email

Just now I spent 20.- CHF wisely; thunderbird by mozilla depends on our #donation. Maybe you can #help to keep this useful project going in the future?

Give to Thunderbird | Give to Thunderbird

I gave to @mozthunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy.

^{Give to Thunderbird}

From the Firefox 109.0 changelog:

„The native HTML date picker for date and datetime inputs can now be used with a keyboard alone[…]“

Nice! Always great to see native elements being improved.

The full changelog can be found here: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.…

#firefox #mozilla #release #changelog #date #picker #accessibility #keyboard

Firefox 109.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

^Mozilla

Here's a very early implementation of #Firefox Sync running in Thunderbird Daily!

The bones are there and the foundation is solid.

Though it may be called something else by the time we launch it in Thunderbird 115 (such as Thunderbird Sync or #Mozilla Sync), it's a feature we're THRILLED about putting in your hands.

I’m not going to use bloody bugzilla, so if anyone from Mozilla sees this, your enterprise flow for adding certificate authorities (CAs) to Firefox on Linux fails on Fedora Silverblue.

Since Fedora Silverblue is seen as the possible future of Fedora/Red Hat, you folks might want to talk to the Fedora folks about it and come up with a solution.

github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

#mozilla #firefox #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #bug #tls #ssl #redHat #linux #enterprise #certificates

Cannot add certificate authorities to Firefox using enterprise policy · Issue #397 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker

In Firefox version 64+, you can add your custom certificate authorities to Firefox using an enterprise policy file and by copying your certificates to /usr/lib/mozilla/certificates or /usr64/lib/mo...

^GitHub

Wonderful holidays and a happy new year!
🎄🍭🎅🎁☃️ 🍾🥂🎆

I wish you all the best for the next year #Thunderbird 🐦. And now have a nice time with your friends the #Firefox 🦊 and the #Mozilla 🦖😀

@mozilla

#Mozilla is creating a fediverse instance. What is Mozilla?

• A “not-for-profit” that owns multiple for-profit businesses and pays its CEO $5.6M
• Gets ~83% of its revenue (~$500,000,000) every year from surveillance capitalist Google
• Makes a browser that protects your privacy (*some configuration required)
• Is now a VC…

This is the best we can expect from Silicon Valley/capitalism. Question is: can we do better than that?

Sources: assets.mozilla.net/annualrepor…, assets.mozilla.net/annualrepor…

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… Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”

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#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech

In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

More info here: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

^{Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)}

Welcome to the #Fediverse, @mozilla! Yeah, let’s get moving! 💚🌱

"In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. "

"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

#moa #TwitterMigration

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

^{Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)}

While I might be the only dinosaur still loving and using @thunderbird, I'd like to encourage you to contribute to its development as well if you or your company relies on it:

give.thunderbird.net

#opensource #thunderbird #mozilla

Give to Thunderbird | Give to Thunderbird

I gave to @mozthunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy.

^{Give to Thunderbird}

Thunderbird starts and decides (without asking me) to open a web page in my default browser to beg about donation.

Thunderbird being hypocritical again:
- they're saying donations are what keep them alive yet they just bought out K-9
- they're saying they're "privacy-respecting", yet they open a tracking web page at every start of Thunderbird

The funniest: the links, even in the donate page, contains trackers.

Seriously @thunderbird stop acting like the good guys.

#thunderbird #k9 #mozilla