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Thunderbird, from v3 to v11
Apr. 20th, 2012 02:18 pmMy Linux distribution updated the version of Thunderbird it has from the old version 3.0.something to the absolute latest version, which was version 11.
With this update, it's no longer complaining about becoming obsolete and unsupported, but it's also become incompatible with the theme I was using.
Thunderbird has always lagged behind Firefox in a very significant way in the themes and extensions department, but the leap to the rapid version-number bumping has only made this worse.
There are no good themes available for Thunderbird in general, especially compared with the sheer variety that is available for Firefox, and even fewer that are compatible with Thunderbird 11.
If I can find a good theme for this version, I might be able to stand it long enough to get used to it, but they've also changed a whole bunch of other things.
For instance, now Thunderbird hogs half my processor, doing nothing (which the old one never did, even when checking things for updates), the quick message-viewing pane used to have a way to slim down its information header (it doesn't any more), and they haven't been very effective with the amount of space things use.
(I'm rather picky in that regard. If you waste usable space in a manner I can't fix, you've failed me)
Yes, I'm being picky.
Yes, it just updated today.
Yes, I was used to the old version.
But Thunderbird 11 has failed me on several levels, and I will not even begin to appreciate it again until each and every one of these concerns are addressed.
With this update, it's no longer complaining about becoming obsolete and unsupported, but it's also become incompatible with the theme I was using.
Thunderbird has always lagged behind Firefox in a very significant way in the themes and extensions department, but the leap to the rapid version-number bumping has only made this worse.
There are no good themes available for Thunderbird in general, especially compared with the sheer variety that is available for Firefox, and even fewer that are compatible with Thunderbird 11.
If I can find a good theme for this version, I might be able to stand it long enough to get used to it, but they've also changed a whole bunch of other things.
For instance, now Thunderbird hogs half my processor, doing nothing (which the old one never did, even when checking things for updates), the quick message-viewing pane used to have a way to slim down its information header (it doesn't any more), and they haven't been very effective with the amount of space things use.
(I'm rather picky in that regard. If you waste usable space in a manner I can't fix, you've failed me)
Yes, I'm being picky.
Yes, it just updated today.
Yes, I was used to the old version.
But Thunderbird 11 has failed me on several levels, and I will not even begin to appreciate it again until each and every one of these concerns are addressed.
