Less is better: Mozilla Firefox is losing weight to run faster than competitors
The Mozilla Foundation continues to build its business around the development of the Firefox browser, gradually cutting off other projects. Now it's the turn to say goodbye to Thunderbird . This is a free software for working with e-mail, newsgroups, as well as the calendar.
"I believe that Thunderbird will develop better after separation from Mozilla and its technologies," writes Michelle Baker, president of the foundation, in a post.
Michelle Baker notes that the fate of Thunderbird is not fully resolved. It can become part of another company, or stand out in a separate business and release open source software.
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Developers will no longer support Thunderbird in any way, writes TechCrunch. The development of new versions of this software was discontinued in 2012. After that, the project was supported for three years. But during this time Thunderbird is pretty old.
And back in 2004, this product simply “blew up” the market. In the first ten days after launch, the app received 1 million downloads. Of course, over time, users have switched to mobile or web clients, and the popularity of Thunderbird has disappeared.
Mozilla is trying to lose ballasts, rejuvenate Firefox, make it more flexible and mobile in competition against browsers like Google Chrome. If this succeeds, updating Firefox will not need to refine related products or their interfaces.
For the same reasons, in early October, Mozilla announced that by the end of next year, support for NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plug-ins will be discontinued in Mozilla Firefox. This plug-in program interface will only allow using Adobe Flash, because this technology remains highly demanded. The same plugins as Silverlight, Java, Unity and other Firefox will not be supported in the future. Instead of NPAPI, it is proposed to use the native interface of the Web API browser, through which it is possible to do everything that so far is done through NPAPI.
At the end of November, the Mozilla Foundation published a financial report for 2014. From the document it follows that Mozilla received the main income from contracts with search engines Google and Yahoo - the share of these payments in the entire revenue of the company exceeds 90%. For the fact that Google was the default search engine in Firefox, the fund received $ 280 million in 2012, $ 282 million in 2013, and in 2014 Mozilla refused to renew the agreement with the search giant and instead entered into an agreement with Yahoo. Despite this, Mozilla's total revenue increased by 4.9% to $ 330 million.
In November last year, Mozilla abandoned the “single” agreement with Google and chose to pursue a more flexible policy. Since then, the default search engine in the US browser is Yahoo, in Russia Yandex takes the place, and Baidu in China. At the same time, despite the lack of agreements with the search giant, in Europe, Google continues to be the default search in Firefox without any payments.
"I believe that Thunderbird will develop better after separation from Mozilla and its technologies," writes Michelle Baker, president of the foundation, in a post.
Michelle Baker notes that the fate of Thunderbird is not fully resolved. It can become part of another company, or stand out in a separate business and release open source software.
')
Developers will no longer support Thunderbird in any way, writes TechCrunch. The development of new versions of this software was discontinued in 2012. After that, the project was supported for three years. But during this time Thunderbird is pretty old.
And back in 2004, this product simply “blew up” the market. In the first ten days after launch, the app received 1 million downloads. Of course, over time, users have switched to mobile or web clients, and the popularity of Thunderbird has disappeared.
Mozilla is trying to lose ballasts, rejuvenate Firefox, make it more flexible and mobile in competition against browsers like Google Chrome. If this succeeds, updating Firefox will not need to refine related products or their interfaces.
For the same reasons, in early October, Mozilla announced that by the end of next year, support for NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plug-ins will be discontinued in Mozilla Firefox. This plug-in program interface will only allow using Adobe Flash, because this technology remains highly demanded. The same plugins as Silverlight, Java, Unity and other Firefox will not be supported in the future. Instead of NPAPI, it is proposed to use the native interface of the Web API browser, through which it is possible to do everything that so far is done through NPAPI.
At the end of November, the Mozilla Foundation published a financial report for 2014. From the document it follows that Mozilla received the main income from contracts with search engines Google and Yahoo - the share of these payments in the entire revenue of the company exceeds 90%. For the fact that Google was the default search engine in Firefox, the fund received $ 280 million in 2012, $ 282 million in 2013, and in 2014 Mozilla refused to renew the agreement with the search giant and instead entered into an agreement with Yahoo. Despite this, Mozilla's total revenue increased by 4.9% to $ 330 million.
In November last year, Mozilla abandoned the “single” agreement with Google and chose to pursue a more flexible policy. Since then, the default search engine in the US browser is Yahoo, in Russia Yandex takes the place, and Baidu in China. At the same time, despite the lack of agreements with the search giant, in Europe, Google continues to be the default search in Firefox without any payments.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/296904/
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