14 Jul 2026

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Thunderbird Blog: Community Office Hours: A Thundermail Update

Our Community Office Hours series is all about connecting with the people behind Thunderbird and our products, and sharing the work that's happening behind the scenes. These conversations are a chance to learn more about the direction of our projects and to hear directly from the people making it happen.

In this episode, we are talking about Thundermail!

Since we first shared our plans for Thundermail, we have seen an incredible amount of excitement, curiosity, and thoughtful feedback from the community of early bird testers. In this Community Office Hours session, members of the Thunderbird team sit down to talk about the project's vision, share where things stand today, and answer some of the questions we've been getting along the way.

In this conversation, you'll hear about:

One of the best parts of Community Office Hours is the opportunity to have open conversations with our community. Your questions, ideas, and feedback help shape Thunderbird and its products, and we are excited to keep sharing updates as Thundermail continues to evolve.

Resources

Resources for Suggesting Features:

Thunderbird on Desktop and Mobile - https://connect.mozilla.org

Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro - https://ideas.tb.pro

Resources for diving into Thundermail:

Thundermail (and other services) roadmap: https://roadmaps.thunderbird.net/en-US/services/

Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThunderbirdPro/

Thunderbird Pro addon repo that is now shipped natively in Thunderbird: https://github.com/thunderbird/tbpro-add-on

Thunderbird Accounts repo: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-accounts

Webmail client repo: https://github.com/thunderbird/stormbox

Appointment repo: https://github.com/thunderbird/appointment

Thundermail deployment repo: https://github.com/thunderbird/thundermail-deploy

SieveConnect repo: https://github.com/philpennock/sieve-connect

Resources for Getting Help with Thunderbird:

Thunderbird for Android Support Channel (Matrix) - https://matrix.to/#/#tb-android:mozilla.org

Thunderbird Desktop Support Channel (Matrix) - https://matrix.to/#/#thunderbird:mozilla.org

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14 Jul 2026 7:36pm GMT

Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20260713.1)

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The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org:

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14 Jul 2026 6:44pm GMT

The Mozilla Blog: Over The Edge 2.0: what independent researchers found about browser choice on Windows

Two years ago Mozilla asked two leading experts on deceptive design, Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles, to look at how Microsoft was treating people who tried to use a different browser on Windows. Their report, Over The Edge, documented a pattern of design choices in Windows, Edge, and Bing that nudged, pressured, and at times tricked people into using Edge.

This morning, the same researchers are publishing Over The Edge 2.0. They retested the same questions across Windows 10 and Windows 11, and added two new dimensions. First, how does Microsoft's approach change from one jurisdiction to another? They assessed Microsoft's tactics across four regions: the USA, India, the UK, and Germany, as a representative country in the European Economic Area. Second, they examined how AI features, specifically Copilot, are being used to shape the same outcomes the original report identified.

Their conclusion is short. Microsoft still does not allow users to download, set as the default, or keep using alternative browsers without harmful interference. The patterns are documented, and they meet established definitions of coercion, deception, and manipulation.

There is one bright spot. In Europe, where the Digital Markets Act applies, some harmful design tactics are gone. The Bing 'All you need is right here' panel and its trick wording. The nagging Windows 10 'You're almost done setting up your PC' journey. The Copilot data toggles that default to "On" in the US and India, by contrast default to "Off" in the EEA and the UK. Same Windows. Same Edge. Same Copilot. Different design choices, because the law required them.

That is the heart of the report. Although the EEA product still has obvious harmful design patterns, Microsoft has built a fairer user experience for browser choice. It has shipped that experience to one region. Everywhere else, including the US, the UK, India, and Brazil, harmful design patterns continue. This is an active choice - and one that can be made differently.

The findings are the researchers' own. Mozilla commissioned the work, and the report discloses that role, but the methodology, the screenshots, and the public journey database at edge.brignull.com let anyone check the evidence for themselves.

We make Firefox because we believe the web should serve people, not platforms. Firefox is independent, built by Mozilla, and designed around what is best for users, not what increases lock-in.

Read the full report here.

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14 Jul 2026 12:30pm GMT