Mozilla has stopped developing Thunderbird, claiming there is no need to innovate further on the venerable email and newsgroup client. Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chair, said on ...

The Thunderbird e-mail client still has its supporters, but for the past couple of years, Mozilla has been making moves to distance itself from the project. In late 2015, Mozilla announced that it ...

As a long-time Thunderbird user I have to admit that I’m unhappy about this, but not terribly surprised. Mozilla, like many developer organizations, is focused on the mobile- and Web-based ...

Mozilla executives had wanted to spin Thunderbird off as early as 2007, and it moved to a more community-driven development model in 2012.

Mozilla Corporation handed off Thunderbird to the community in 2014, but Mozilla Foundation still supports it. According to Thunderbird community manager Ryan Sipes, the team will be working this ...

Mozilla's email and RSS management software, Thunderbird, is now available on the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. The release is, however, an unofficial port by a developer called Store Ports.

Mozilla Thunderbird is approaching its 20th anniversary, and the developers are already thinking about how one of the most popular mail clients out there can be sustainable for the next 20 years.

Mozilla is not “stopping” Thunderbird development, it has just decided that: “continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious organizational ...

Thunderbird, Mozilla’s desktop email client, doesn’t have anywhere near the amount of mindshare of the organization’s Firefox browser, yet even in this age of web-based email services, it ...