Less visibly, DNS over HTTPS is now enabled by default, and there are three levels available: above the default level, Increased Protection allows you to choose your provider, and Max Protection restricts the browser to only using DNS over HTTPS. Unlike the 'I don't care about cookies' add-on which we wrote about a few months ago, the Mozilla version attempts to always reject cookies. There is also a built-in feature which attempts to suppress cookie banners - those irritating messages about whether to accept cookies or not. All the same, there are some welcome new features: there are new search functions for bookmarks and browser history, for example. 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.Īs Thunderbird is usually based off the stable Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), this implies that Firefox 114 will be the next ESR version of the browser, although Mozilla hasn't confirmed that yet.įirefox 114 is not heading up to be a very exciting release - which is probably what you want from a long-term support version, anyway.

It will just sit there in the background quietly keeping a local copy of all your messages somewhere out there in the cloud. 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. These days, it integrates pretty well with most webmail services - it will automatically connect to your account without you needing to enter server details, and it won't just pick up your email, it will also pick up your calendar, and your address book. Thunderbird runs on everything: macOS, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, you name it. Losing your email account can be quite a serious problem, and it can mean losing access to lots of other services which authenticate you by means of your email address.Įven 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. Free users don't really have any comeback, and there are lots of sad stories of people losing their accounts out there. 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. Well to be honest, yes, most of us do, including the Reg FOSS Desk. Doesn't everybody use webmail these days?' We suspect that some people might ask be asking themselves: 'who uses as a local email client in 2023.

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