Originally posted by dh04000
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IMHO what Thunderbird needs:
* Fixes to the HTML editor (It has been a mess since the beginning, can not paste data from Libreoffice and maintain format, specially from CALC)
* Fixes to the font handling, it is broken.
* Performance enhancements to the message filtering, it is dead slow if you have lots of filters and one marks the email as read.
* Desktop notifications are a mess, they need to be sorted out ASAP.
* Native support for tray icon on Linux to indicate the number of messages/new email, currently it depends on plugins that have been abandoned because of internal Mozilla's internal changes to the plugin API.
* Native support for Groupware, specifically Exchange mannerisms like invitations, sadly it is the de-facto standard.
* Improvements to the archiving process, it is incredibly slow if one tries to archive more than 200 messages in one operation, and there are no progress indicators.
* The activity manager needs to better reflect what is going on internally, you delete 1000 messages and thunderbird will remain unresponsive for minutes with no indication of what is happening.
* The ability to see what is happening with server connections in the background for troubleshooting (some kind of log window where one can see if the server is returning some kind of error)
I haven't read what Mozilla is planning on doing yet, but I fear the worst. I bet they will destroy Thunderbird.
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