Hello Mark, it seems that you are highly concerned with the path Thunderbird is taking for the future. Might I suggest to you, and everyone following this exchange for that matter, to head over the [tb- planning][1] mailing list. It's purpose is to, quote:
1. *Offer an easy, transparent venue for getting constructive, Thunderbird-related work done.* 2. *Offering community members the chance to post until they get satisfaction about their concerns.* I am pretty sure that if you were to gently explain your concern and future perceived issue, somebody would gladly take the time to answer you. It is not, however, a place to request supports. Take care, Ludovic [1]: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning On dim, 2020-10-25 at 15:49 +0000, Mark Rousell wrote: > On 25/10/2020 06:33, Simon Walter wrote: > > On 10/25/20 7:20 AM, Mark Rousell wrote: > > > The reason for this change is that Thunderbird is deprecating all > > > its old addons (the entire ecosystem) and Enigmail won't work on > > > the new Thunderbird. It's less than satisfactory. > > > > Yes, I understand the reasons. They may make sense for FF. Though, > > I don't know if they apply to TB. > > I do not think they make sense for Thunderbird. Thunderbird was in > effect railroaded into it because it cannot part ways with whatever > the Firefox project does with Gecko (or whatever it's called now). I > view this as a bug, not a feature. > I understand that the Thunderbird project lacked resources to go its > own way (i.e. forking Gecko to be able to support their own addon > ecosystem) but I still view this as severely damaging to > Thunderbird's future and, as such, is a systemic problem. It is > destroying one of Thunderbird's USPs (i.e. fully capable addons). > > That's interesting and may be a good thing. I should do more > > investigation. I recommend TB to most of my clients. I want to make > > sure that is still a good recommendation. > > I'm in the same position with respect to recommending to clients. I > think that Thunderbird is still a good recommendation pro tem but I > do not see this as a long term situation. I do not think that the > current leadership's direction is the right one in order for > Thunderbird to be able to maintain unique USPs over potentially > competing mail and calendar clients. > As an aside, I don't think that Firefox has a great future either. In > summary, it seems to me that it's being converted more and more into > a Chrome clone and if users have a choice between Chrome and a > Chrome-alike then they simply seem to choose Chrome. Firefox has lost > its USPs (not least its earlier fully-capable addon ecosystem), and > Thunderbird under its current leadership (and, I admit, with its > current resources) seems to be inexorably following. > So, I'm sticking with Thunderbird for now until I identify a better > alternative. The loss of the old addons ecosystem and, in particular, > the loss of Enigmail and replacement with a less capable internal > OpenPGP implementation were the final turning point for me (together > with planned UI changes that are not so appropriate in my opinion for > desktop use and with general project leadership quality). > The replacement (for me) for Thunderbird might not yet exist but I am > confident that something will emerge.
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