Mozilla freezes Thunderbird

Despite the fact that Mozilla promised not to stop working on Thunderbird, this statement was rather strange against the background of another statement by the leadership. And the statement is quite clear: "the continuation of active work on Thunderbird is not the optimal use of our resources." In addition to the statement, there are also direct actions, namely, reducing the number of Thunderbird developers.

And this is called "do not stop" the work on Thunderbird? Most likely, the "non-termination" of the development of Thunderbird will be announced on Monday. Earlier, the letter, which will be published on Monday, was distributed to developers. They made a commitment not to talk about the news, but, obviously, someone let it slip.
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In general, it is sad enough to realize that Thunderbird, a competitor to Outlook, is leaving the stage, so to speak. However, such a move by developers is quite logical - now such software is gradually transforming from desktop to mobile and web applications. In Mozilla have already announced their intention to create a mobile OS "Firefox OS", as already reported on Habré. So any web alternative to Thunderbird may well appear in this OS.

Most likely, Thunderbird support will be implemented, but there is no need to talk about any new features. By the way, just a month ago a new version of the program was presented, with the functions of collective work with large files, as well as the possibility of creating personalized e-mail addresses.

On Monday, the company will post news about Thunderbird here . By the way, the unit engaged in the development of Thunderbird, began to decline in January. Third-party developers may be active, but most likely Thunderbird will not develop actively in the future.

Via techcrunch