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Mozilla Thunderbird 102.0 announced
After the 102.0 version of Mozilla Firefox was announced , the beta version of Mozilla
Thunderbird, an open source and highly advanced secure email client , was announced on June
7, 2022, and the final version of the 102.0 version was announced.
As always, it is important for users to report what they think or a bug they detect.
Reminding that Thunderbird now runs in multiprocessing mode by default, support for non-ASCII characters
in recipient addresses has been added.
Supporting 49 languages, including Turkish, Mozilla Thunderbird has the ability to use
many add-ons such as Firefox, another popular member of the Mozilla family, and open e-mails
in different tabs.
The software also includes an archiving and search engine, allowing it to open in a new
tab when an email is double-clicked.
With the "Smart Folders" feature integrated into this infrastructure, Thunderbird enables
faster and more comprehensive searches in messages and archives stored in different
e-mail accounts.
One of the advanced features is Gmail integration.
Thunderbird takes care of your most complex administrative needs while making it easy
to find what you're looking for.
It is said that some translations have been updated in the new version, which comes with
various UX and theme improvements and various security fixes.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 102 Released with New Address Book, Import/Export Wizard
The Mozilla Thunderbird open-source, cross-platform, and free email and calendaring client has
been updated today to version 102, a major release that adds many new features and enhancements.
After the big announcement earlier this month that Mozilla Thunderbird is coming to Android
devices, the project released today Mozilla Thunderbird 102 as the first major new series
of the popular email client almost a year after the release of Mozilla Thunderbird 91.
Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 102 include a new address book that supports importing
of contacts in the vCard format, refreshes the design of the contact cards with new contact
entries, and makes it a lot easier to navigate and interact with your contacts.
Thunderbird 102 also comes with a brand-new import/export wizard that finally makes it
easier to import and export accounts and data without relying on third-party add-ons.
The new import/export wizard lets you migrate from a file, SeaMonkey, or another Thunderbird
installation.
“We’ve also taken extra precautions to ensure that no data is accidentally duplicated
in your profile after an import.
To that end, none of the actions you choose are executed until the very last step in the
process,” said the devs.
Also new in Mozilla Thunderbird 102 is out-of-the-box support for the popular Matrix decentralized
chat protocol, redesigned message header to better highlight important information and
to make it easier to navigate it, as well as a new Link Preview Cards feature that lets
you share rich preview links in your emails.
But wait, that’s not all as Thunderbird 102 also introduces a new productivity feature
called Spaces Toolbar under View >Toolbars, which promises to make it easier and more
convenient to move between different activities, such as email, calendar, tasks, chat, address
book, and so on.
On top of all these goodies, the new Thunderbird release also adds support for multiple active
spelling dictionaries in compose window, further improves OpenPGP support and enables the Key
Assistant by default, updates the tab icons, improves the Addon Manager, which no longer
shows incompatible add-ons in search results and features back/forward keyboard shortcuts,
adds OTR Chat encryption to the Chat component, and improves Dark Mode and theme support.
Moreover, a notification bar will now be displayed in the compose window to notify you that encryption
is possible but not enabled, a message will now be displayed when an upgrade migration
task is taking too long to complete, OAuth2 is now supported for Google Talk chat accounts,
printing without preview is now possible using the system dialog, and there are significant
performance improvements when moving messages between IMAP folders.
Of course, there are numerous bug fixes to make your Thunderbird experience better, so
check out the full release notes for more details.
Meanwhile, you can download the Mozilla Thunderbird 102 release right now from the official website
if you want to enjoy all the new features and improvements.
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