Thunderbird email address display

[Bret Busby]

On 5/10/23 18:02, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 05/10/2023 09:42, Karl Auer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 16:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> So, the Supernova malware makes Thunderbird v115 malware.
>>> [...]
>>> Luckily, I did not naively downgrade [...] to the malware edition
>>> [...]
>>> It is unfortunate that due to the malignants responsible
>>
>> While I understand your frustration, Supernova really isn't malware, 
>> the authors are not "malignants", and Thunderbird itself is not malware.
> 
> Probably not, but what would worry me is that the authors or
> maintainers of Tbird even considered doing this in the first place.
> 
> PCMag wrote, 'what a blog post calls “a modernized overhaul of the 
> software—both visually and technically”' which are words that should 
> worry every user. I don't know the Tbird team's consultation methods, 
> but I am surprised it failed to throw up this as a poor choice.
> 
>> It's just software that has lost a feature you valued
> 
> I would expect it to be valued by most users, although I don't know the 
> percentage of users (new and old) who don't place any particular value 
> on actual email addresses and therefore believe they don't want to see 
> them. I know that N is large overall because I used to have them in 
> training courses, delighted to see only the user-friendly name, not the 
> address; but that was on a different system.
> 



Just out of interest, for the add-on, that Thunderbird made incompatible 
for v115;

" Full Address Column 1.0.4 "

"5,615 users"

So, thousands of us, are deliberately harmed by the changes to Thunderbird.

....
Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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