I can say with certainty that TB is not only alive and well but getting loads of fixing for the upcoming ESR release. This year's culling of workforce at Mozilla made me worried too. A few years ago when Mozilla anounced TB was no longer going to be developed and put on life support, it was a tragic bit of news.
It's paid off with both performance improvements and useability improvements that were long overdue. But, the Mozilla folks have enlisted a whole slew of new folks to address ancient bugs and beat the cruft out of TB. Sadly, TB 78 ESR is still stuck on LLVM 9.0.1 and Rust 1.43. Ancient bunch finally getting attention.Ĭons: Not quite as peppy as Firefox using even the 64-bit version but years ahead of where it was since just this time last year.īottom Line: The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. TB is still the best client out there bar none. 2021 is going to be a great year for TB and Mozilla in general. I can personally attest to the HUGE amount of improvement I've seen in the latest betas I've been playing with. 78 has had a lot of growing pains and AddOn authors are still playing catch up.
For now though, it's an excellent email client, and any features that are missing from its impressive repertoire can be easily patched with downloaded plugins.The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. Thunderbird is currently in the process of becoming an independent project, so it'll be interesting to see which direction it takes once that happens.
Thankfully, downloading and installing extensions in Thunderbird is just as simple as it is in Firefox select 'Add-ons' from the main menu and you'll be presented with a store where you can download and install all kind of extras to enhance your email experience. To add that extra functionality, you'll need to download an extension called Provider for Google Calendar. Adding a Google calendar to Thunderbird is easy too (use the main menu to connect it just as you would another email address), but you'll only be able to view events - not edit them, or create new ones.
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