Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client to receive a major design overhaul this year

Mozilla’s Thunderbird desktop email client is confirmed to undergo a major cosmetic overhaul. company is also working towards improving support for Gmail. Thunderbird happens to be among popular free, open-source and cross-platform email clients developed by Mozilla.

Mozilla said it has received feedback asking for UX/UI improvements and it will work on improving UI/UX of Thunderbird in 2019. With dition of new developers, Mozilla aims at improving experience for ir users across board in Thunderbird.

One area of usability Mozilla is planning on dressing this year has to be integration improvements in areas like better Gmail support. Mozilla also said it is looking to dress Gmail label support and ensure that or features pertaining to Gmail experience translate well into Thunderbird.

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Mozilla said it has hired an engineer whose primary focus will remain on security and privacy. Mozilla confirmed UX/UI around encryption and settings will get an overhaul in coming year. However, Mozilla did t confirm wher or t all this will come into effect in next release itself.

In dition to a mail client, Thunderbird also provides users with news client, RSS and chat client services. Both Firefox web browser and Thunderbird mail client are pre-installed on Ubuntu desktop systems.

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This is what Ryan Sipes, Community Manr, Mozilla Thunderbird h this to say:

“We still have some areas to improve on this year, with one of m being onboarding core contributors. Thunderbird is a big, complex project that isn’t easy to jump into. So, as we closed out year I opened a bug where we can detail what documentation needs to be created or updated for new members of community – to ensure y can dive into project.”