Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/

The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!

Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!

The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:

September 30 – First beta for Thunderbird for Android

Third week of October – first release candidate

Fourth week of October – Thunderbird for Android release

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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Perhaps less AI in Mozilla?

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- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The ‘AI’ they have now seems to be offline (and completely private) translation, and enhanced screen reader functionality for blind people.
  
  I don’t think those are bad. They make the web more accessible.
  
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- kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thunderbird is managed by a separate independent company.
  
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boreengreen@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If this is just a rebranding; why does there need to be beta test?

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- hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Well, first of all, K9 regularly beta tests their new versions before release already.
  
  Being launched under the Thunderbird brand, though, is expected to hit a much wider audience than just K9 users. And being a first impression, they want to do everything they can to make that impression a solid one.
  
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- d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The main thing they want testing for is the migration tool from a k-9 app installed and configured already on the device, which would be net new code.
  
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- Melco@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Because they took an existing, completely spyware free app- K9 and added invasive telemetry to it.
  
  Now they need you to test it so they can track you and get your data.
  
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amongstthetrees@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ll check it out when it publicly releases, but I doubt it’ll replace FairEmail for me tbh.

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- d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not in a rush to move over from K-9, but once they add account sync with desktop to the mobile app I’ll def be migrating. Getting to be a not of a pain toanage Thunderbird on a few PC’s + phone and i’m very much looming forward to simplifying all of that
  
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  - then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Eventually it’ll just be a K9 update with a new name and logo.
    
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MrMxyztplk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Heh, I had just looked the other day in the app store and found it wasn’t there. Good timing.

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