Thunderbird 102.2.0: New app update ready!

Thunderbird 102.2.0: New application update ready!

El August 23st, 2023, the work team of the well-known and used Thunderbird email manager has announced the availability of new update of the same, that is, of "Thunderbird 102.2.0".

Therefore, and as usual, we will explore what new arrivals brings us the new update of this mail app, which has always been characterized as free, open, free, easy to set up and customize, and of course, with many great features available to everyone.

But, before we continue to address the news of the new update of "Thunderbird 102.2.0", we recommend exploring some previous related content, at the end:

Thunderbird 102 beta released

Thunderbird and K-9 Mail merge and “Thunderbird for Android” is born

Thunderbird 102.2.0: August 23, 2022 Update

What's new in Thunderbird 102.2.0

Among the novelties of the vversion 102.2.0 that are integrated as of August 23, 2022, we can mention the following:

New

Added the setting needed to enable/disable the following OpenPGP reminder “encryption is possible” via the function mail.openpgp.remind_encryption_possible

Exchanges

On macOS, it will now prompt for the primary password on startup if it is set.
From now on, it will not offer to import OpenPGP keys that are incomplete.
It will allow you to select or deselect a dictionary on the toolbar button.
It will allow you to make changes to the dictionary through the context menu of the editor.
Contact address lines now adjust to appear in the expected order.
Some fields (1-4) will be restored to the Address Book GUI, while existing data will be preserved from pre-102 profiles.

Fixes

Thunderbird startup performance.
The cause that prevented the entry of special characters in Windows.
POP3 message download progress bar not showing.
Saving newsgroup attachments not working.
Various visual and thematic improvements, and some security fixes.
POP Fetch headers only mode, which was not working for some server configurations.
Keyboard access to address book toolbar buttons.
The error setting a contact type to "None", if you previously had a type set.
Fixing IMAP folders in offline mode, which deleted the local copy of the folders.

Without resolving

Missing address book "Get Map" function for physical addresses.
There is no dedicated "Department" field in the address book.

To know more "corrections" made and included on this 102.2.0 update, and more, can be accessed directly on the following link. While for your download and use, the easiest way is to press the Download from button here, to obtain its compressed file, for later download and execution of its executable file, as seen in the following images:

Thunderbird 102.2.0: Download

Thunderbird 102.2.0: Running

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Firefox 104 will slow down its interface to save battery life and introduces two-finger gestures to scroll through the history

Server Push will no longer be supported in Google Chrome 106

Summary

In short, if you use this fabulous email manager and you still don't have the update "Thunderbird 102.2.0" or worse still, the version 102, we invite and recommend you to start the download and use process, since it includes not only excellent improvementsbut important major fixes and updates.

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