![]() Saddened to hear that Mozilla is making these changes, but understand it given todays technological advances on the web.Īlso in Mozillas favor, e-mail market facts speak for themselves. ∺s I lose more and more trust everyday in cloud computing and giving my information to companies for hosting on their servers, it was reassuring to have an e-mail system in place that gave me control over my e-mail, said one comment to a site report. They largely say they do not like but understand the decision. In Mozillas favor, reader reactions among those who use Thunderbird have been largely expressed as disappointment but continued support for the Foundations efforts to follow paths of growth. We are working with additional suppliers to cover more areas of the world and to provide more options in the future. Along with your new email address, Thunderbird will be automatically set up and ready to send and receive messages. The Version 13 announcement was accompanied by the information that In partnership with Gandi and Hover, you can now sign up for a personalized email address from within Thunderbird. Users complimented Mozilla for its rapid update cycle for Thunderbird and Version 13 was allowing users to sign up for new custom e-mail addresses without having to leave the app. Still, to others, this was unexpected and puzzling, considering Thunderbird, first released in 2004, had just got a new version in June. This has been coming for a while were just learning about it now. According to, We know that developers began moving off the Thunderbird team back in January. ![]() The news may not have come as a big surprise, however, to Foundation insiders and those otherwise close to the situation. Today the Thunderbird team is back in the main Mozilla product organization, said Baker in her Friday blog. ![]() Mozilla will be pulling some in-house developers off the Thunderbird project but intends to continue handling bug fixes and security updates This will mean an eventual shift in how we staff Thunderbird at Mozilla Corporation - we are still working out details, but some people will likely end up on other Mozilla projects, said the Piacentino message. A carefully spun message that Thunderbird was being killed off? Shot down except for maintenance and security fixes? A long goodbye? Time to hunt for another e-mail system? Putting it in a hospice was one sites suggested take. ![]() In some circles the news raised more questions than answers. Similarly, in a Friday blog posting from the Mozilla Foundation Chair Mitchell Baker, the Thunderbird freeze was reiterated that ∼ontinued innovation in Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozillas product efforts. Were not stopping Thunderbird, but proposing we adapt the Thunderbird release and governance model in a way that allows both ongoing security and stability maintenance, as well as community-driven innovation and development for the product, said the heads-up message to its Mozillians. ![]()
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