{"id":34364,"date":"2021-08-12T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34364"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:44:37","slug":"thunderbird-91-0-released-with-native-apple-silicon-support-multi-process-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-91-0-released-with-native-apple-silicon-support-multi-process-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird 91.0 Released with Native Apple Silicon Support, Multi-Process By Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-icon250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-icon250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-icon250-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Thunderbird email client released new major 91.0 version with many new features and improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird 91.0 now runs in <b>multi-process (e10s) mode by default<\/b>, which offers many advantages in responsiveness, stability, performance, and security.<\/p>\n<p>For macOS users, the release adds native support for computers with Apple silicon CPUs. There are also Latvian language support, new user interface for adding attachments, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Account Setup&#8217; has a new look and finally move to new tab instead of a floating dialog. It also adds ability to detect and set up CalDAV calendars and address book during setup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-account.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-account-600x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-account-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-account-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-account-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thunderbird-account.jpg 1227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new version also brings improvements to Calendar, such as remote calendar auto-detection, &#8216;Edit&#8217; option in event context menu, double-click to open .ics files, and import filter and sort items.<\/p>\n<p>And a warning popup will appear when either trying to spend a reply to a likely non-existant email address such as &#8220;noreply@example.com&#8221;, or public recipients of a message exceeds threshold. <\/p>\n<p>Other changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderbird.net\/en-US\/thunderbird\/91.0\/releasenotes\/#whatsnew\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thunderbird 91.0<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beta-level support for Matrix servers chat.<\/li>\n<li>Enable redirect of messages.<\/li>\n<li>PDF.js viewer support.<\/li>\n<li>Allow showing empty CC\/BCC rows in compose window<\/li>\n<li>Allow pinning folder views to the Folder Pane<\/li>\n<li>And much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Get Thunderbird 91.0 for Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>As the release note said, the release only is available as a direct download, and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 78 or earlier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderbird.net\/en-US\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Thunderbird (tar.bz2)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Ubuntu Linux, it&#8217;s a tar.bz2 package. Once you get it, extract and right-click to run the executable to launch the client.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-thunderbird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-thunderbird-600x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-thunderbird-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-thunderbird-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-thunderbird-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/run-thunderbird.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To create a shortcut icon for Thunderbird 91.0, you can open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to create &#038; open a .desktop file:<\/p>\n<pre>gedit .local\/share\/applications\/thunderbird91.desktop<\/pre>\n<p>Then paste following lines into the file. <b>Replace &#8220;<i>\/PATH\/TO\/thunderbird<\/i>&#8220;<\/b> with the executable file path, and finally save it.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t plan to move the source folder to another place for long time using, the file path should be: <i>\/home\/USER_NAME\/Downloads\/thunderbird-91.0\/thunderbird\/thunderbird<\/i><\/p>\n<pre style=\"background:none;\">[Desktop Entry]\r\nEncoding=UTF-8\r\nName=Thunderbird 91.0\r\nComment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird\r\nKeywords=Email;E-mail;Newsgroup;Feed;RSS\r\nExec=\/PATH\/TO\/thunderbird %u\r\nTerminal=false\r\nX-MultipleArgs=false\r\nType=Application\r\nIcon=thunderbird\r\nCategories=Application;Network;Email;\r\nMimeType=x-scheme-handler\/mailto;application\/x-xpinstall;\r\nStartupNotify=true\r\nActions=Compose;Contacts\r\n\r\n[Desktop Action Compose]\r\nName=Compose New Message\r\nExec=\/PATH\/TO\/thunderbird\/thunderbird -compose\r\nOnlyShowIn=Messaging Menu;Unity;\r\n\r\n[Desktop Action Contacts]\r\nName=Contacts\r\nExec=\/PATH\/TO\/thunderbird -addressbook\r\nOnlyShowIn=Messaging Menu;Unity;<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Thunderbird email client released new major 91.0 version with many new features and improvements. 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