Download Mozilla Thunderbird 78.0.1

The Mozilla Foundation has released the first update for version 78.0 of Thunderbird. Thunderbird is an open source client for e-mail and newsgroups, with features such as support for various mail and news accounts, a spam filter, spell checker and a customizable appearance. In version 78 we find, among other things, a dark mode and other parts of the interface, such as the icons and the screen for composing an email, have been taken care of. Furthermore, the Lightning calendar add-on is now a standard part of the program, there is a new wizard for the first use and only MailExtensions add-ons are supported. An automatic update from 68.x to 78.x will only work from version 78.2. In version 78.0.1, the following improvements have been made:

What’s New:

• OpenPGP: Key revocation, extending key expiration, and secret key backup

Fixes:

• Drag & Drop multiple attachments to macOS Finder created duplicate files
• Faceted search date and relevance settings not saved
• FileLink attachments included as a link and file when added from a network drive via drag & drop
• About Thunderbird dialog keyboard shortcuts did not work
• CC’d recipients sometimes displayed collapsed in header pane
• Incremental search in contacts sidebar did not always display local results when an LDAP server was also in use
• Contacts sidebar search results cleared after removing a contact
• OpenPGP: Messages with long Armor Header lines did not display
• OpenPGP: Messages containing non-UTF-8 text were not supported
• Various UI and theming fixes
• Chat: Participants list did not display operator flags