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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:05PM
it's not thunderbird per se that's crap.
thunderbird is actually what makes gmail useful (srsly, try configuring gmail in thunderbird!).
i bloody hate the way the web-interface of gmail works. but maybe st0pid people just know how to complain and not learn new things?
anyways the main problem is email. it is old. it is st0pid and it is the sole culprit that has removed the most privacy on the interwebs.
i mean, how difficult can it be to have a program running on a computer/router that just listens for incoming text messages?
how difficult can it be to send some text to another uniquely identifiable person on the internet?
it's DEAD simple but -alas- email has been a "killer-app" from day one and it is, to this day, being milked for belleons!
no sir, thunderbird is just as important as firefox!
who knows, maybe somebody is going to take my ramblings serious and implement a tiny 350 kb email server (MTU) that can run on "any" router.
oh and, while you're at it, maybe make it "pull" instead of "push" email, so i get a notification that i got email but it isn't actually clogging up my HDD but rather sitting on the senders HDD waiting for me to go pick it up .. this will force spammers to sit on their spam ^_^
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:50PM
Yeah sure, and hope that the laptop the message was sent from is switched on and connected right at the time when you are trying to get at the email. ;-)