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 💙
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
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.
I don’t like the new logo; it looks mean. The previous logo showed a charming bird that delivered my mail, the new one portrays a bird of prey clutching a letter, it will probably bite you if you try to retrieve the letter.
Is this better?
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 may try Thunderbird again. Only thing I do not like about the screenshots is the far left toolbar, but I will still check it out.
Outlook is trying to force that on users as well…it’s really a waste of screen real estate for those of us who never use that toolbar.
The thin one that navigates between calendar, contacts, etc? That’s always been there in thunderbird.