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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: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Wednesday December 02 2015, @03:01PM
Everyone uses email, it is as ubiquitous as the intrawebs
What percentage of people who use email use webmail? I was recently surprised to talk to people who had never even considered the idea that you might use a stand-alone application for email, rather than a web browser. I think that's part of Mozilla's problem with Thunderbird. The main place where a fat client for email is still a big win is on mobile devices (does anyone know of an Android mail client that sucks less than K9? I found a lot that were even worse, but none that were actually good), and Thunderbird doesn't run on mobile devices.
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