I feel like the way TB is, is more of an identity than devs being conservative. Setting up e-mail accounts is a process that is almost completely automatic, buttons and tasks are in locations that are easy to find and remember and I have never experienced inconvenience due to bugs or changes in general after updating. TB as well as Firefox are both really user friendly in my opinion. Now You: which features would you like to see in Thunderbird?Īs someone that does not consider itself tech-savvy or conservative, all I can tell you is that I have never considered Thunderbird being ‘stuck in the 90’s’ or ‘too geeky’. Those users who don't require sync can simply ignore it, similarly to how Firefox Sync can be ignored in Mozilla's browser. Users who install Thunderbird regularly on new devices or use it on more than one device will benefit from integrated data synchronization. Synchronization support is another milestone feature for Thunderbird. The team revealed already that some data will also be synced between desktop installations of the Thunderbird email client and Thunderbird for Android, which currently is still called K-9 Mail.

New installs will pick up the settings automatically as well, provided that Sync is configured. With Sync in place, Thunderbird users have all changes synced across all their installations. All of these are not synced at the moment, which means that users have to make the changes in every instance of Thunderbird they run. Or take a newly created template, a new filtering rule, or modifications to Thunderbird settings. Without Sync, you'd have to add the contact in every Thunderbird installation on the same device or other devices.

Imagine adding a user to a local address book in Thunderbird.

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