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In this Ars Technica article, Mozilla Corporation Chair Mitchell Baker discloses the desire to drop the Thunderbird email client altogether.
"Many inside of Mozilla, including an overwhelming majority of our leadership, feel the need to be laser-focused on activities like Firefox that can have an industry-wide impact." Baker writes. "With all due respect to Thunderbird and the Thunderbird community, we have been clear for years that we do not view Thunderbird as having this sort of potential."
Thunderbird has already been demoted to second-tier status, receiving only security updates since the summer of 2012. Baker's plan would turn Thunderbird over to a community product, similar to what happened with the Mozilla Suite a decade ago.
Is Mozilla's decision to laser-focus on improving Firefox going to stop their dwindling market share? Who else, besides the submitter, is still using Thunderbird? And where will you go once Thunderbird is no longer supported?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Moru on Wednesday December 02 2015, @10:42AM
I will continue to use the mail platform until it is completely broken. I still have mails from 1999 in the archive folder on my oldest accounts. That is around the time when I switched from Atari to Windows and had to do a fresh start on a new email program.
(Score: 1) by CaTfiSh on Wednesday December 02 2015, @08:11PM
I hear you, I've been using Eudora since the 90s and still have emails dating back to then. It still works, displays emails more correctly than Yahoo's web-interface and hasn't been updated in almost 10 years.
Thing is, it was handed over to Mozilla by Qualcomm for open source development. In conjunction with Qualcomm, Mozilla tried to use the Thunderbird codebase while retaining the Eudora interface. The result was horrible and once Qualcomm stopped backing the project it was dropped. Eudora 7.0.1.0 was the last reliable version produced.