New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up
It's beta season in Mozilla land and some cool shiny stuff is on the way. Versions 114 of both the Firefox browser and its distant cousin the Thunderbird email client are heading our way.We suspect that some people might ask be asking themselves:"who uses as a local email client in 2023. Doesn't everybody use webmail these days?"FOSS Desk. However if you are using a free web mail service — such as Hotmail or Gmail — you are always running the risk of it getting deleted.
Even if you don't use it to read and write your emails, keeping a local email client on your computer — or computers — means that you can keep a full local backup of whatever is in your webmail account, so even if it gets deleted, you don't lose all your mail. Thunderbird runs on everything: macOS, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, you name it.
So, as paradoxical as it may sound, it may be worth running a local copy of Thunderbird even if you don't actually use it very often. It will just sit there in the background quietly keeping a local copy of all your messages somewhere out there in the cloud. For Mac users, there's a ticky-box in the settings which enables Apple's Spotlight search to index your messages, which can be handy too.
There is also a built-in feature which attempts to suppress cookie banners — those irritating messages about whether to accept cookies or not. Unlike the"I don't care about cookies" add-on whichLess visibly, DNS over HTTPS is now enabled by default, and there are three levels available: above the default level,restricts the browser to only using DNS over HTTPS.
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