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Thunderbird has become worse on Mac OS 10.14

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I recently updated my Thunderbird client to v115.0b6 (on a 2012 Macbook Pro with Mac OS 10.14), and as so many apps nowadays, it has become worse instead of better: - There is a large margin on the left side of the subject column in the email list which wastes a lot of space. How can I hide it? - Performance is worse: The update of the mailing list and the spam filtering is significantly slower than before. Often takes a second for 2-3 items. Why should an update with basically the same functionality ever become slower? - The issue that external images are never shown to me even after I have allowed external contents to be shown is still not solved.

As far as I remember, going back to a stable (non-beta) and more performant version (where the last issue shouldn't exist) is complicated due to database migration. Probably someone can help me accomplish this anyway.

I recently updated my Thunderbird client to v115.0b6 (on a 2012 Macbook Pro with Mac OS 10.14), and as so many apps nowadays, it has become worse instead of better: - There is a large margin on the left side of the subject column in the email list which wastes a lot of space. How can I hide it? - Performance is worse: The update of the mailing list and the spam filtering is significantly slower than before. Often takes a second for 2-3 items. Why should an update with basically the same functionality ever become slower? - The issue that external images are never shown to me even after I have allowed external contents to be shown is still not solved. As far as I remember, going back to a stable (non-beta) and more performant version (where the last issue shouldn't exist) is complicated due to database migration. Probably someone can help me accomplish this anyway.

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You "updated" to beta software that was promoted to a release version a year ago?

If you expect release performance and release functionality you might want to use a release version. The latest release version that will run on your older mac operating system is 115.13 which you can download from here https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.13.0/mac/

Thunderbird 128 which has just been release requires a later version of MacOS

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Matt said

If you expect release performance and release functionality you might want to use a release version. The latest release version that will run on your older mac operating system is 115.13 which you can download from here https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.13.0/mac/

Thank you! Can I safely replace the app or could there be issues with the versions of internal data?

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