I had an 'apt hold' on Thunderbird for several years. The new versions had too much whitespace everywhere, and given that I had like 80 subfolders in my mailbox made it unusable for me. All 80 could not fit on my 4K screen, even with the tiniest font settings, because 90 percent was whitespace.
Previous versions of Thunderbird had a much more compact look.
This picture (from over two years ago) compares two versions of Thunderbird, the newer one on the right.
I find whitespace a waste of space.
Yet, sticking with an ancient version is probably not the best idea, so since Trixie I decided to 'suffer thru it' and install the newest Thunderbird.
With the new Thunderbird comes another annoyance... the old version always offered me the choice between opening a picture in gimp or ristretto. The new version has this:
Who designs these things? When it is a good idea to choose between two identical options?
Later today I may find time to file a proper bug report.
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