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Thunderbird To Find New Home as Foundation Focuses on Firefox

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jul 2007 18:05 UTC, submitted by Flatline

"On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Firefox. While the Mozilla Foundation supports a number of projects, its taxable subsidiary the Mozilla Corp. is responsible for only Firefox and Thunderbird. However, it has become increasingly clear that Firefox is the priority. The resources allocated to Firefox dwarf those allocated to Thunderbird and recent projects such as the initiative to improve Mozilla support exclude Thunderbird."

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Web Suite?

by raynevandunem on Fri 27th Jul 2007 21:35 UTC in reply to "RE: Brilliant Kill good products so you can flog crap"

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2006-11-24

I wonder when Firefox becomes that big that it'll be forked into separate applications? They did it with Netscape/Mozilla, which they forked into Thunderbird, Firefox, Sunbird, Nvu, and Chatzilla. They then dumped Nvu and Chatzilla, and now Thunderbird and Sunbird/Lightning are on their way out as well.

So how big will Firefox get? Firefox will eventually reach that point where the thing will become more of a "web suite" than just a browser.

Wait a minute....have I coined a new term?!

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RE: Web Suite?

by Wintermute on Sat 28th Jul 2007 07:28 in reply to "Web Suite?"

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2005-07-30

That's not going to happen. If anything Firefox will be split into a xulrunner backend and the Firefox frontend. xulrunner will become a framework which any application can use.

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