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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) by looorg on Wednesday December 02 2015, @03:27PM
Considering I already dropped Firefox for Pale Moon ages ago I guess one can only hope that if Thunderbird goes it will be picked up and transformed into Pale Bird or something. If that doesn't happen I'll just keep running whatever the current version of TB (38.4 apparently, probably a few versions higher then that when they eventually drop it - it's not like it's happening tomorrow is it?) is until it doesn't work anymore. I assume it will work for quite some time tho as there is really nothing in that should break in a way that will render it useless - email is essentially what it has always been and as long as it can make the connection to the server I don't see it breaking down anytime soon.