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Firefox@Lemmy.ml : Is it possible to install Firefox addons in Thunderbird? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Thunderbird's addon store is very lacking to compare to Firefox. Are there even technical limitations to this if Thunderbird use Firefox / Gecko under the hood?

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, add-ons have a list of applications they support coded into them, and it wouldn't make sense for a lot of them to be interchangeable. You don't need adblock in Thunderbird, you need spam filtering.

[–] TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd definitely wanna block embedded trackers though

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thunderbird does that by default. As long as you don't enable downloading of external resources, trackers are blocked.

[–] TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How does it work though, does it use tracker lists like uBlock origin does?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 4 months ago

Trackers are basically embedded images in the email. If the image gets downloaded by your client, they can track if the email was opened. If you simply don't download images, there's no tracking.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

Browsers work very different than mails :)

In Mails normally you get the content you want sent. Tracking only happens if the content is not sent, but needs to be downloaded from within the app. Then the servers can see you got the mail.