The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!
Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!
The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:
- September 30 – First beta for Thunderbird for Android
- Third week of October – first release candidate
- Fourth week of October – Thunderbird for Android release
Use a DNS firewall because when you start the app it sends telemetry data to Mozilla.
What kind of telemetry data does it send to Mozilla?
Mozilla added hundreds of classes of spyware to K9 in their mozilla.telemetry.glean.* (which previous to Mozilla’s involvement was spyware free) and rebranded it “Thunderbird” and now advertise it as “privacy-focused” wow…
From an exodus privacy scan of the code:
603 tested signatures on 18351 classes (10929653)
Mozilla Telemetry
*Mozilla Telemetry 544mozilla.telemetry.glean.
file:///data/app/xxxx/net.thunderbird.android.beta-dP9rv7Vgn_LwPDaBlWsOsQ%3D%3D/base.apk
MD5sum: e2b6cf0e661008614b8d21e909a5a6b1 SHA1sum: fcca25ea751b071e94d5ae8b5e28d770bd5c460d SHA256sum: 9ced27f396fec09205c99ab60484cd6bf54befc35f03add942619713f0126e98
C=US,ST=California,L=San Fransisco,O=MZLA Technologies Corporation,OU=Mobile,CN=Android Team
SHA256withRSA
CERTIFICATE fingerprints: md5: 50a7fd1449c184cd456be2c71f73addd sha1: a17411f1092ca647500a8b6f0297e205088f4015 sha256: 056bfafb450249502fd9226228704c2529e1b822da06760d47a85c9557741fbd
Don’t know exactly I only realized when I checked my DNS queries.
Probably, your device model, ip address, timezone and so on