Textual words from them:
It’s our first step towards a more modern, more beautiful, and more customizable Thunderbird experience. We think you’re going to love it, and we are endlessly grateful for all of your support throughout the years 💙
Oh no! It looks like an electron app.
Is it one though? I’m having a difficult time finding the source code of this new version.
Can anyone confirm whether or not it’s built on Electron?
The closest I can find is from Feb 2023, saying that at that time it would not be Electron:
Mozilla also still plans to use the Firefox web browser as the core platform for Thunderbird. That leaves Thunderbird as one of the few cross-platform mail applications that isn’t an Electron app or based on web technologies in some way
So possibly Electron-like but based on Firefox rather than Chromium?
@FistfulOfStars @kr0n @TheWoozy
It’s not an electron app, I installed it.
It’s based on the “Mozilla application framework” [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_application_framework
The new website is also pretty epic: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ (bit messed up on mobile)
Unfortunately the flathub version doesn’t seem to be updated.
It works on Chromium browsers. It does not work on Firefox.
Interesting to see even Mozilla apparently testing their websites only on Chromium.
I used Thunderbird about 10 years ago? Looks amazing compared to what I remember.
It looked almost the same as the last time tou used it just before this version. Which means this is an absolutely huge step forward for the UI
I was gonna say, I tried it a couple months ago and I’m pretty sure it hadn’t been changed since when I was using it in like 2012. I thought a theme might help so I checked out the available themes, and the “popular” ones were ones that felt like they were from back then too. Everyone remembers Firefox / Thunderbird themes from back then: frosted glass, photos of space, flames, lots of gradients, themes that look like wood for some reason, that gross red text on black-white gradient background. It was like the entire app was aesthetically trapped in the early 2010s, even the community’s themes.
I used Thubderbird about 10 minutes ago and this indeed looks amazing compared to what I remember.
Edit; how to downgrade to the version? why still no conversation view? 😭
Great. Downgrading deleted my profile. Thanks a lot for the constant “innovation”,gonna take me hours to set thst shit up again.
Edit 2; no matter how frustrated you are with thunderbird, DO NOT INSTALL OUTLOOK
That definitely looks different. I assume they still haven’t put the system tray functionality back?
@DarkThoughts @kr0n
they did !
Looks nice. I’m not an email power user but I still use Thunderbird just to handle multiple accounts. I’m grateful to this software for simplifying my life a bit.
