Finally! Mozilla's Thunderbird email client is getting a makeover

Good-bye 2003, hello 2023

- ALAINA YEE

For some people, offline email is still the way to go. Whether it’s due to habit, mistrust of cloud services, or sensible prudence about backups, downloading email to a client still factors large in the routines of many users. Mozilla Thunderbird is a key part of such setups thanks to its hefty set of features and zero-cost price tag. But Thunderbird has long been criticized for its outdated interface, and not without cause—it still looks like it’s stuck in 2003.