Mozilla Thunderbird Overview 2019 Plan: New UI, focused on security and privacy
Mozilla is reinvesting in capital and manpower to develop Thunderbird, an open source mail client that it has given up. It formed a team of eight people to develop Thunderbird last year. Mozilla said it plans to recruit six more full-time in early 2019 and work hard to bring positive change and improvement to users.
The official blog describes its 2019 program, which includes: addressing UI response and performance issues, rewriting some of the programs with new technologies, and enabling multi-process support. Other usability improvements include improved Gmail support, and Gmail is one of the largest mail providers, and it makes sense to improve support for it. Developers plan to address Gmail tag support, improved notifications, better integrate the operating system’s built-in notification system, and improve the usability of encryption. It has hired an engineer focused on security and privacy.