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Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the next-up dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: Mozilla announced last week plans to modernize Thunderbird's codebase, plans that include fixing some "technical debt" by incorporating the recent changes in the Mozilla engine into Thunderbird, adding a new user interface (UI), and phasing out old legacy add-ons that are built on the XUL and XPCOM APIs. The changes are part of Mozilla's new plan for Thunderbird development, a project that it left for dead in 2012, but later decided to reinvigorate in 2016.

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  1. My Add-ons by msc.buff · · Score: 4, Informative
    I use several add-ons in my daily Thunderbird usage:
    1. CompactHeader
    2. ConfigDate
    3. DKIM Verifier
    4. Enigmail
    5. Header Tools Lite
    6. LookOut
    7. Manually sort folders
    8. Nostalgy
    9. PrintingTools
    10. Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate)
    11. Spamness

    I wouldn't mind if some add-ons were integrated (Enigmail, Nostalgy) but don't mess too much with the cored T-Bird.

  2. Thunderbird doesn't work by loufoque · · Score: 2, Informative

    I stopped using Thunderbird ages ago when they started incorporating sqlite and smart search. It made it completely unable to cope with the amount of emails I have.

    It's like they don't understand some people have dozens of gigs of plain text email and are subscribed to a hundred high-volume NNTP groups.

  3. Re:"adding a new user interface" by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 3, Informative

    Your fears are totally warranted as the new UI looks like modern shit we are already forced to consume in other OS'es like Windows 10.

    Hopefully the new Thunderbird will be themeable but I wouldn't hold my breath considering that theming was essentially killed in Firefox (we can only apply a background image to its bars - that's it).