![]() ![]() Over the past six and a half years, an interesting thing has happened. At that point, many assumed that Thunderbird was done, but that’s not quite how things have turned out. In July 2012 after nearly a decade of trying to get traction for Thunderbird, Mozilla Chief Mitchell Baker announced that Mozilla would pull back its focus and funding from Thunderbird. That effort failed and was folded back into Mozilla in 2011. In 2007, Mozilla announced the Mozilla Messaging effort, which was supposed to be a stand-alone organization tasked with building Thunderbird. ![]() So yeah, Mozilla has been trying to build traction for its stand-alone email client for 16 years, with a lot of ups and downs along the way. In 2003, Mozilla split its email and browser efforts into two groups, one for browsers that led to Firefox and the other effort for email, which is where Thunderbird comes in. The original Mozilla suite that debuted in 1998 included both email and browser capabilities. Mozilla has its roots in the Netscape browser, which in its final years had a full suite known as Netscape Communicator that included both email and web browser applications. It’s a move that comes after a meandering 20-year path for the open-source organization’s email efforts.Įmail is not a new thing for Mozilla, and to understand how long the organization has been grappling with developing an email client, it’s important to go back and look at the history of the internet itself. However, it will have to face the ballast of a public opinion that in many cases is unaware of its existence, and in others is aware of it, but associates it with the decadence it has experienced for many years now, so the challenge is great.Mozilla, an organization that is best known for its Firefox web browser, is starting 2019 by renewing focus on its Thunderbird email client. These are not small words, of course, and if the plans go well, it is more than likely that Thunderbird will emerge from the impoverishment in which, in many respects, it has been plunged for years. change to a p monthly publication program.Rebuild the interface from scratch to create a consistent design system, as well as develop and maintain a highly customizable and adaptable user interface.Making the code base more agile and reliable, rewrite old codeEliminate technical debt.Throughout the next 3 years, the Thunderbird project aims at these main objectives: Thus, and in an ambitious three-year work plan, the foundation considers the following three points: In other words, when the mail client is about to turn 20 years old, they have considered doing it again from the beginning to, as they claim, guarantee that it will continue to be present for at least another twenty more. Thus, as you can see in the video, and expand in the post on the official blog, Mozilla will make some pretty deep changes to Thunderbird, with a new interface, but also with substantial modifications in its “guts”. Quite the contrary, Mozilla has very interesting plans for its mail client. However, and to the delight of the users of its desktop version, it seems that this will not be the case. This, of course, causes a feeling of apathy, abandonment, as if Mozilla had given up on it and therefore decided to leave Thunderbird to its own devices, which is the key many take the foundation to have acted on in 2012, when it announced that it Thunderbird would go on to be a community-driven model. So much so that even if we access its download page today, the most recent option of the Microsoft operating system that is shown in the selector is Windows 10, despite the fact that more than a year has passed since its successor, Windows 11, is now available to users. Thus, the use of applications such as Thunderbird is limited, in these times, to people who want to take greater control of their communications.īe that as it may, Mozilla Thunderbird has been a reference for many years now, but the truth is that it has barely evolved for a long time. And many others directly use the client that includes their operating system by default, be it desktop or mobile devices. This is actually quite understandable, since with the rise of email services over the web, there are many people who, for years, no longer use an email client, but they connect directly to the website of the service they use (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) to check and send emails. Surely more than one person, upon reading the title of this news item, was surprised to learn that Thunderbird does, indeed, still exist and, what’s more, it remains one of the most notable email clients in this market, which is more varied. ![]()
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