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Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises

posted by mrpg on Friday January 04 2019, @08:02PM   Printer-friendly
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"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[...] When the Mozilla Foundation decided to turn the email client loose in May 2017, its future looked doubtful, but it's still here and, according to this post by community manager Ryan Sipes, donations are flowing freely enough for Thunderbird to expand its development team.

The current eight personnel are to be expanded to 14, and one of the roles to be resourced is an engineer who will focus on security and privacy.

"The UX/UI around encryption and settings will get an overhaul in the coming year," Sipes wrote.

While he couldn't guarantee that effort making it into the next release, "It is our hope to make encrypting Email and ensuring your private communication easier in upcoming releases."

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @09:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @09:48PM (#782249)

    a proper native gtk3 theme would be nice. modernizing the ui would be nice. right now it's too much config over convention for my tastes.

    making it leaner, faster and more secure. and yes, make everything, including security easier to use.

    also, what is tbird's problem with a changing internet connection? if i switch between vpn and no vpn many times i have to restart tbird. it's ridiculous.

  • (Score: 2) by Zinho on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:39PM

    by Zinho (759) on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:39PM (#782623)

    what is tbird's problem with a changing internet connection? if i switch between vpn and no vpn many times i have to restart tbird. it's ridiculous.

    I think that's inherited from the Mozilla codebase, Firefox does the same thing. This has been a problem for years, [mozilla.org] and keeps cropping up [mozilla.org] even after they say it's fixed. I'm not seeing an open bug report for it now, but can confirm that it's been a thing for me on recent versions.

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