Glad this helped! Admittedly, Thunderbird's RSS functionality hasn't been prioritized recently, but hopefully that can change in the near future. Long live RSS!

It would be more helpful if you could report the bug and help us fix the issue you're experiencing. We're gaining users every month and our 20 million active users are using it without their system hanging.

@@alecaddd last update, starts normal then immediately hangs, takes ages to download emails, (500mb connection) select any email to read, hangs for about 5 seconds per click before the email can be viewed. Didn't do that a few weeks ago. Nothing has changed in my system, no OS updates. And it's not my job to beta test things for ya. I use what works and discard what doesn't. Using Proton now.

@@branjosnow6244 Having this report in bugzilla with some steps to reproduce would be much more helpful than a rant in a youtube comment. We're a small group of developers maintaining and shipping a free and open source application for million of users, and regardless if you like it or not, we need the help of those users in telling us when things are broken.

Why would they want to make a retrograde step?

@@Heater-v1.0.0 Go has better syntax, faster compile times, and overall a faster production time to get a project done.

@@purpasmart_4831 The beauty of syntax is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly compilation is slower in Rust. But typically one is not compiling ferociously all day, one writes code, the IDE highlights errors immediately as you type, an occasional "cargo check" ensures the thing builds. I don't find total time to production, from idea to designed, written, reviewed, tested, debugged, rolled out to be noticeably slower. Meanwhile one gains all the advantages Rust offers.

@@purpasmart_4831 Every Rust developer can say the same thing about Go. It's all a matter of prospective and we chose what makes sense for us and what is logical for our expertise.

Thank you... we think? :D

If anything, replacing poorly maintained code with new Rust modules should help the team clean up the old code that they don't really understand, and that's probably adding a lot of the overhead and turning Thunderbird into a performance hog. I'm not involved with Thunderbird, but I'm doing C++ development, and learning Rust. Going with a stricter language can help future maintenance: if a change doesn't fit well into the original vision, it will more likely raise a compiler error, instead of silently working in a suboptimal way. C++ is fairly strict, but Rust is even stricter. Rust is also "zero overhead", so there is no inherent runtime cost of using the language, over hand-writing assembly, like C and C++, but unlike Java, C#, Python, JS, Go, etc.

lmao what a funny thing to say

Lately? As I understand this is gated behind a feature flag, so these changes could not have influenced your experience. I could only think of Rust code inside Firefox (on which Thunderbird is build) having any impact. But why do you think Rust code is slow? If anything C/C++/Rust are very close in performance, C beeing the fastest, but Firefox is mostly written in C++. The choice of language having any impact doesn't make any sense here

You say that as if Rust would introduce a performance penalty. Which is not the case, Rust produces code that flys as well as C++. I think the reasons for adopting Rust were well spelled out in the discussion.

Funny you say this since the version of Thunderbird you're running is not shipping Rust as everything is behind a flag and only available since version 126 alpha.

Glad you think so! I thought about chopping this up into segments like we did with the last Office Hours, but ultimately this was such a focused and technical conversation that it all belonged together.

Good feedback, thanks! Want to let you know we're actively working on Linux system tray support beginning next month.

@@thunderbirdproject great work ❤️ thanks

That's a great idea! Can't promise it will happen soon, but I'll speak to our Add-ons guru John about it. ~Jason

It's difficult for us to speak to the state of a Firefox extension, but I'm sorry if it's no longer working. Can you give me some more detail? Which website are you trying to pull RSS from?

@@thunderbirdproject I'm trying to follow the example in the video. I navigated to www.youtube.com/@thunderbirdproject/featured and got that 'No feed found' result. However, on closer examination of your video, you are using a different URL. Am I using the wrong URL?

@@markglover5217 Just checked and the RSS feed definitely still exists. I added it to Thunderbird just now and got expected content results. We DID change our channel ID several months ago, and that may have affected URLs. Here is the feed I successfully used, which was discovered by the Awesome RSS add-on for Firefox: kzfaq.infovideos.xml?channel_id=UCuMTCmnwZPiXXVIy_TW6Bnw

@@thunderbirdproject OK, it looks like adding the Awesome RSS add-on for Firefox was the missing ingredient. After adding that, Get RSS Feed URL extension works! The next challenge is the 'Double-click and open in new tab' at 3:50. That doesn't work for me (TB 115.3.1), and the 'App Menu' is no longer where the video shows it to be. This would seem to have nothing to do with the RSS Feed feature, and is more to do with my inability to keep up with the constantly changing nature of the TB UI...

We're planning an iOS version for next year, but that needs to be developed from scratch. Choosing Android first gave us a clearer, faster path to release.

K-9 Mail is not based on Thunderbird. We acquired K-9 Mail (and hired its maintainer full-time), and are working diligently toward bringing some of the features of Thunderbird to K-9 Mail. This includes things like the account autodiscovery tool, and Mozilla Sync. Sync WILL enable you to keep your accounts in sync between K-9 Mail and Thunderbird, and will make it much easier to set up. But, please don't expect ALL the features of Thunderbird on Desktop to be on the mobile app. By their very nature, mobile apps need to be streamlined and simplified.

@@thunderbirdproject Thanks for the clarification. Whenever I search for ‘Thunderbird for Android’ K9 will pop up, to give me the impression K9 was a TB clone. I know they are different things from the start, and up to today I still don’t see they are very similar. The good thing is, the import settings feature made setting up a new device very easy, until recently TB was not as easy to do. Just a final note, I still hope the ‘auto clean trash on exit’ feature will be implemented on K9. I searched and found just recently, that auto clean feature was rejected by some users, they want to clean the trash only when they want to, but giving back the control to users to have it auto or manual clean is the best. Btw I am already a forum member in case you ask.

Indeed! And hopefully we'll be able to implement this soon.

Yes, that is in the works! In the meantime, maybe this help article will be useful: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

Here's the thing though: it's important for important features like this to be native and work out-of-box. The primary reason is that sometimes community developers can no longer maintain an add-on.