Saturday, July 28th 2007
Mozilla Leaves Thunderbird
While Mozilla's Firefox continues to make massive marketshare gains and is arguably the best web browser currently the Thunderbird email client hasn't received the same love and attention. Thus the future of the software has come up for debate by Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker in his latest blog post in which he admits
Three options are under consideration:
* Create a new non-profit organization analogous to the Mozilla Foundation
* Create a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation for Thunderbird
* Thunderbird is released as a community project
Baker calls on readers to contact Mozilla with their suggestions while admitting
Source:
Mozilla
We have concluded that we should find a new, separate organizational setting for Thunderbird one that allows the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny.
Three options are under consideration:
* Create a new non-profit organization analogous to the Mozilla Foundation
* Create a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation for Thunderbird
* Thunderbird is released as a community project
Baker calls on readers to contact Mozilla with their suggestions while admitting
We don't know the best answer yet. And we don't expect to without a broad public discussion and involvement, which we hope this message will trigger.Obviously Thunderbird is no longer of interest to Mozilla as their only plans are to overhaul Internet Explorer.
22 Comments on Mozilla Leaves Thunderbird
/me using thunderbird daily.
Also, why are they worried about fixing Internet Explorer?
TB should definately be continued, but if their options are abandon it or pass it on, passing it on is a good move.
oh and as for those that dont seem to like TB... post some alternatives. we're listening.
That means don't waste your time here.
now flame bait elsewhere.
But, web-based e-mail is not for everyone.
oh and because i have a good setup, they're still in Gmail, and not deleted. so i can access them all, online or offline...
But yes people - stop mentioning webSITES, this is about webCLIENTS. i use Thunderbird to view Gmail emails, so saying 'use gmail' is most definately not an alternative to using thunderbird...
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Its useful, because i have a laptop. also i dont like wasting bandwidth, if i get an email i want it once, and then i rarely ever want to see it again.
And of course, if other people are using teh net at the same time, offline (or at least not web browsing) usage can really play a lot nicer with gaming/VOIP ;) thats just personal preference for me however
24meg is fn fast. I have 10 meg - but I can only imagine what it'd be like to download 3 megabytes per second.
The email in Tbird is the same as you get in Gmail - if its in GMails spam folder, it doesnt leave via pop3... so i dont get covered in junk etc. and Tbird has its own spam filter, in case Gmail misses some.