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: 4, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Wednesday December 02 2015, @12:18PM
noooooooo... don't fuck up the last email client i can barely stand ! !!
hate, Hate, HATE how many/most email clients put ALL your email into little piles IT THINKS they should go in, instead of simply giving me a chronological listing of my email as it comes in...
is that too much to ask ? ? ?
i don't want you to combine all my emails from this or that person/company into their own blobs of unreadable piles of junk...
JUST.
DELIVER.
THE.
EMAIL.
AND.
GO.
AWAY.