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The Thunderbird Release channel: Fresh regressions in version 146 directly to your desktop

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Thunderbird Release channel version 146 brings fresh regressions directly to your desktop. Check them out, blank parts of the UI and inconsistent naming:

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This bug was reported by Thunderbird's internal QA team, good on them, a volunteer developer fixed the issue, and Thunderbird's release manager refused to ship the fix in the Release version. It's a bit like in this Dilbert cartoon:

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And the folder name saga continues, this was already covered here. Mileage varies depending on mail provider and localisation. Here shown for a Gmail account. On the left, the folder tree, on the right, the folder name in the Subscribe panel, which is typically the folder name shown in the provider's web UI: Gmail folder names

Follow-up here.