Mozilla cuts back its Thunderbird development.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTEzNDc
basically they are pulling their paid developers off Thunderbird and going to let the "community" handle it.....
They are shifting their developers over their FirefoxOS by the sounds of it......
Disappointing considering Thunderbird was just made default over evolution in Ubuntu.... Honestly Thunderbird is a good RSS reader... but I think evolution is a better email client anyhow.
UPDATE BY JONO BACON: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/07/11/...rd-and-ubuntu/
Re: Thunderbird being shafted (quote from Phoronix)
Great. :mad:
Actually, at least on Linux there are a couple of choices. I'll probably switch to Kmail or something if I have to. But it's on my Windows install I'll struggle to find a replacement.
Re: Thunderbird being shafted (quote from Phoronix)
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/07/0...t-thunderbird/
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PS - I am not so sure about the title of this thread :-/
Re: Mozilla cuts back it's Thunderbird development.
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KiwiNZ
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topic was a direct quote from the news source :-\"
Re: Mozilla cuts back its Thunderbird development.
Lets be perfectly honest here. There has not been any real changes to Thunderbird in 10 years. At least none I have noticed other then a few stability fixes. It still looks the same as it did in 2002. I would pull paid devs off it as well. Yes its a free email client, but its lags behind compared to Outlook or Evolution.
Re: Mozilla cuts back its Thunderbird development.
it fetches email....and stores it
when will email die?
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smellyman
it fetches email....and stores it
when will email die?
when we no longer need a email address to have a account on web sites
**cellphones have email address 00000000@carrier.com is the typical format iirc
i have thunderbird open more than firefox, i know tb was going to get a built in im client in it, wonder if it will show up in the stable release...
Re: Mozilla cuts back its Thunderbird development.
"transitioning to a model of security and stability updates only."
Thunderbird has worked for me for the last couple of years. I don't think anything other than security and stability updates are necessary. I like Mozilla's software and I am happy to see it as a default mail client in Ubuntu. It meets my needs as a home user and is easy to set up. I hope Ubuntu continues to use it as their default. I like that it is integrated in the top panel.
As a Linux user since 2001 I also like Unity. As far as Unity is concerned I would like to be able to minimize applications by clicking on their icons in the launcher.
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Bandit
Lets be perfectly honest here. There has not been any real changes to Thunderbird in 10 years. At least none I have noticed other then a few stability fixes. It still looks the same as it did in 2002. I would pull paid devs off it as well. Yes its a free email client, but its lags behind compared to Outlook or Evolution.
Still rather use thunderbird then outlook live, and evolution is rather bloaty