“It’s basically a complete redesign of how you add accounts (like email, calendars, etc.) in Thunderbird. The old setup system worked, but it looked a bit dated, could be confusing with its tab-based approach (easy to accidentally close!), and wasn’t very consistent across different account types.
The Account Hub aims to fix all that. It provides a single, unified, modern-looking wizard inside a pop-up window (modal) to guide you through setup. For brand new users, this modal will guide them without letting them get lost before their first account is ready.”
Mercurial is the version management system that is used by Mozilla and it is necessary. (in my case: sudo pacman -S mercurial)
> hg version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 6.9) (see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)
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Make the working directory with: mkdir tb-build && cd tb-build
chmod +x bootstrap.py (gives executable file permissions to the script)
> ls -l total 16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 chris chris 16025 Jan 17 18:13 bootstrap.py drwxr-xr-x 1 chris chris 2264 Jan 17 18:14 mozilla-unified
./bootstrap.py (actually runs the script). The first problem I encountered was the rustup version. It was solved with rustup install stable and rustup default stable
Build the sources with ./mach build and then run with ./mach run
The whole building process lasted approximately 8 minutes on my AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core Processor and required 30.1 GiB (32,355,790,419), 1,401,719 files, 138,437 sub-folders
