Mozilla Thunderbird 52.0 Debuts with PulseAudio Support on Linux, New Features

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Mozilla officially launched the final release of the Thunderbird 52.0 open-source email, chat, calendar and news client for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Mozilla Thunderbird 52.0 is now the most advanced stable branch of the popular application, used by default in numerous Linux-based operating systems. It has been brought on par with its bigger brother, Mozilla Firefox 52.0, which is an ESR (Extended Support Release) series.

As expected, there are a lot of new features implemented in this major release, and among the ones that caught our attention, we can mention PulseAudio support for playing sound on Linux platforms, the ability to copy the message filter, as well as support for importing settings from Becky! Internet Mail.

It’s now possible to like tweets on Twitter and send Direct Messages, the XMPP support was updated with the SASL SCRAM authentication mechanism, along with support for Jabber/XMPP Message Carbons (XEP-280), and it looks … (read more)

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