On behalf of the Thunderbird team, Thunderbird Council, our global community of contributors, and our extended Mozilla family, I am incredibly excited to announce the initial launch of Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” for Linux, macOS, and Windows! 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 from Thunderbird.
This is a massive release, and modernises this venerable e-mail client considerably. I can’t wait to test it out once it hits the Fedora repositories – I never liked Thunderbird all that much, but Supernova seems like something that suits me a little better, so I’m curious to see if it can pull me away from Geary. If you want to quickly gauge the changes to the user interface, the Thunderbird team made a very handy page for that.
Hi Thom.
Maybe you could try to install Thunderbird from https://snapcraft.io/thunderbird on Fedora. And use it for a while. After we can discuss if Snap packages are bad or a good thing.
Let the csd battle begin!
The fact that they have a thing called the Thunderbird Council is hands down the coolest thing about this project.
Bureaucracy is never cool. Thunderbird has been a good product for a long time, hopefully they don’t butcher it like what happened to Firefox.
The lack of something like the cards view is what made me look for alternatives in the first place. Landed on Mailspring, tried Thunderbird again just now, but it still feels heavier/slower and looks less streamlined. Also, as an ex-Apple Mail, I like Mailspring’s use of new windows instead of new tabs – this is obviously a taste thing, though. On the whole Mailspring is as close as you can get to Apple Mail on Windows – which is all I really wanted. It’s not as full-featured as Thunderbird, maybe, and in parts you can tell it’s web tech underneath – a general lack of smooth transitions when navigating around, occasional bugginess – but it’s quite forgivable considering there really aren’t very many free, cross-platform open-source mail clients out there – in fact I can’t think of any others aside from these two.
Moochman
I’ve tried alternatives like evolution, but I keep coming back to thunderbird. It’s has flaws and does feel dated at times. But I prefer a local mail client over webmail and thunderbird is the most feature complete clients I’ve used. The bug tracker has bugs dating back over a decade, some of which impact me, however the project developer is doing the best he can with limited resources. Mozilla felt that competing against gmail was a dead end, we are fortunate that thunderbird still has a dedicated developer after the spinoff.