What’s New In Thunderbird 78

Thunderbird is among the must-have applications on any operating system. It is developed by the same company that develops Firefox, Mozilla Foundation. Recently, Thunderbird 78.0 was released with a couple of interesting features and improvements.

The popular email client is installed on almost all Linux distributions. All you need to do is search for it in the app menu. In case, your distro does not have it, you can install it from the repository. Just use the package manager to install Thunderbird on your distro.

Though Thunderbird 78.0 is officially out now, the update is not yet available from the repositories. Repositories still have the older version.

What’s new in Thunderbird 78.0

New Account central

Thunderbird 78 has a new account central to set up new email accounts, feeds, Calendars, etc.

Thunderbird dashboard
Thunderbird dashboard

Built-in End-to-End Encryption in Thunderbird 78.2

End-to-End encryption was possible in Thunderbird with the help of an add-on. Now it’s going to be the part of the core in 78.2 version to be released in a few months.

Dark mode

The email client now supports dark mode. Though there is no option to enable dark mode, instead, thunderbird respects the dark mode settings enabled by the operating system.

So if you have the option to enable dark mode in the operating system, or your system theme is dark, it will respect that mode.

Though the thunderbird dark mode feature is not working properly for my operating system, Linux Mint 20. I have enabled dark theme and this is how it looks like –

Thunderbird dark mode not working in Linux mint
Dark mode not working properly in Linux mint

As you can see the thunderbird window is not completely dark whereas the other window, the file manager is completely dark. Hope to get a fix for this really soon.

Calendar & Task manager integrated

  • Thunderbird Calendar support
  • Thunderbird customize calendar
  • Thunderbird create new calendar
  • Thunderbird calendar created
Thunderbird Calendar
Calendar

Redesigned compose window

Thunderbird compose email
Compose email

New folder icons & icons colors

Thunderbird updated icons colors
Updated icons colors

Minimize to system tray added for windows

Another small but useful feature is “minimize to the system tray”. It is only available for the Windows version of Thunderbird.

Select multiple messages column

You can now select multiple messages by enabling a seperate column of checkboxes.

Thunderbird select messages column
Select messages column

Once “Select Messages” column is enabled, each email has a checkbox to select it.

Thunderbird select multiple messages
Select multiple messages

Delete messages column

Like Select Messages, the Delete column option has been added to the thunderbird. By enabling the ‘Delete’ column, you can delete messages without having to open them.

Thunderbird delete column
Thunderbird delete column

Once the delete column enabled, the delete option in each email row is available.

Thunderbird delete emails
Thunderbird delete emails

Global search

Another important feature is the Global search option available under App menu >> Find.

Thunderbird Global search
Thunderbird Global search

Download & install Thunderbird 78.0

Update to Thunderbird 78 is not yet available from repositories. So you will have to wait for the current installation to receive the update. But you can download Thunderbird 78 from the website and use it.

Uncompress the file, and click Thunderbird. It will run Thunderbird without any installation.

To be able to open it from the app menu, you can create a shortcut in the app menu of your distro.

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