Mozilla releases completely revamped Thunderbird ‘Supernova’

Mozilla is releasing a completely revamped version of its Thunderbird email client tomorrow, codenamed “SupernovaPlus, Supernova has to solve ten years of tech debt.

Thunderbird is literally an icon that runs on top of the Firefox browser. This has the advantage that your email client can fall back on Firefox updates and add-ons support. This has advantages and disadvantages. Thunderbird’s development team is very small, while Firefox has hundreds of developers. Keeping track of all changes in Firefox is often a day job for a small Thunderbird team. Behind the scenes, the developers have been working on Supernova for some time (115- Your departure). This version has been completely renewed both technically and in terms of interface.

For example, a unified toolbar has been added, new icons, a new layout, a different application menu, a modified address book and many other things. Under the hood, the new code should ensure that the email client Better for maintenance And continue to evolve. So the Thunderbird developers plan to add more improvements and features inside Supernova in the next year. The new version will be offered to existing users as an update tomorrow.