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posted by n1 on Wednesday December 02 2015, @09:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the focused-user-experience dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:22PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:22PM (#270657) Journal

    Uhh you must have missed it because Mozilla is Mozilla is funded by Yahoo [techcrunch.com] and has been for nearly a year. And before somebody chimes in with "Because Yahoo uses Bing that means they are funded by MSFT!" nope, sorry, the CEO of Yahoo has already announced the second the current MSFT search deal is done which IIRC is next year? They are going back to their own search engine which is why they wanted Firefox search to default to yahoo, it gives them a preinstalled userbase for their new search.

    of course this is assuming that Moz doesn't commit suicide before then and with all the dumbshit they have pulled lately, from shitting on the UI to announcing they are killing XUL (and thus making extensions, the reason anybody uses FF anymore, as weak and gimped as they are on Chrome) to TFA? that is a pretty damned big if. They have gone from nearly half the browser share to less than 10% and are falling fast and stupid shit like this? Is just gonna alienate more formerly loyal users.

      I'd personally advise folks to switch to either PaleMoon or IceDragon, both are damned nice and support Firefox extensions.

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