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Perhaps odd, but I've had the opposite experience.

I switched to Thunderbird at the same time I switched to Linux; after some tweaking, I was mostly happy with it.

Then, in some major version, it started frequently freezing up for thirty seconds at a time. Authoring emails in it became impossible. I could not downgrade it because it was version-locked with some system libraries (libnss OSLT). I could not debug it because that was blocked by a bug filed on Bugzilla ten years ago with no fixes or workarounds.

Then, in another major version, they killed XUL extensions.

I still hope to stop depending on Google services some day, but at that point I would probably switch to or write some webmail with a similar-enough UI to Gmail.




To be fair though, the freeze was probably caused by a xul extension.

I switched from Gmail to fastmail last week, after planning to do so "one day" for a few years. Using a mixture of the web client and Thunderbird, just like I did when using Gmail. No regrets so far, I recommend taking to leap!


> To be fair though, the freeze was probably caused by a xul extension.

No, it's still there even in the most recent version. (Maybe I just have too much mail?)


Thunderbird has been PITA due to its major updates that breaks existing add-on's which I tend to use.




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