Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP users

Re:Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP... by zaarn on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:52AM (#25227889)

Cartering to power users isn't usually good for marketshare because it means you limit your market share to a small subset of the market. Making Thunderbird more accessible and making GPG more accessible, even if that means you can't support some niche use cases, is usually the better choice.

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Re:Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP... by t0astbread on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:19AM (#25228075)

For a mass-market client, yes. But in an ideal world there would be alternatives that don't aim for market domination catered to a more advanced user base. Those could include functionality that would be unsafe for users who don't know exactly how it works.

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Re:Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP... by zaarn on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:21AM (#25228095)

Well, that is what extensions are for in Thunderbird. As long as atleast one poweruser is willing, they can write the powertools.

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