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I only recently start using it after also being a browser email user all my life.
Kinda wondering what took me so long Thunderbird is great! don't have to relearn questionable Ui between different email providers or re-login to check two mailboxes on the same provider.
Only annoying thing is not supporting ProtonMail out of the box.
That annoying thing is more on Protonmail though and I don't mean that as a negative, just more difficult to connect when the provider wants to keep things secure.
Proton could've just implemented everything they did with IMAP/SMTP on Thunderbird + OpenPGP with the same level of security, but they decided not to. Yes, their solution is convenient but also close to everything else.
That's Protons fault, they're the ones that decided to ignore all the open and standard e-mail, contacts and calendar protocols out there and built their custom-everything stack to keep you vendor-locked into their interfaces.