Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

Mozilla has lobbed out Firefox 138, and subsidiary MZLA's Thunderbird 138 isn't far behind. The venerable messaging client is picking up the pace and finally syncing its stride with the browser that spawned it.

The new version of Firefox boasts some fresh features, but there's a catch. Mozilla decided on a phased rollout, or as its release notes put it, one new feature "is now available to almost all users worldwide." Apparently, that does not cover the Irish Sea wing of Vulture Towers.

So, if you are somewhere far from here, you may get to enjoy improved profile handling with custom avatars and friendly, human-readable names. That's welcome – The Reg FOSS desk's current profile is called 70tmx4ga.default, which doesn't exactly trip ...