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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @11:11PM
if I understand right they have combined the WinXP and Atom versions into one now?
http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-atom.shtml [palemoon.org]
it do requires SSE2 though, where can I find a list of processors it excludes by doing that?
Palemoon begun its life as an a web browser for high end processors before it also had to take over the firefox users because the crap Mozilla do, so it is understandable in a historical perspective, but still it can't be too hard compile up a winXP version that don't nees SSE2. Wouldn't it be possible for a third party to compile this version?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @11:36PM
Yes there are!
go to http://www.palemoon.org/contributed-builds.shtml [palemoon.org]
and click "SSE build (x86) by Mercury." ftp://ftp.palemoon.org/SSE/ [palemoon.org]
and download the palemoon-25.8.1.SSE.WinXP.installer.exe or palemoon-25.8.1.SSE.WinXP.zip (2015-11-29) there.
perfect!