The Future of Thunderbird
I&#x27;ll add one more negative sentiment.<p>&gt; Using a solid base architecture like Firefox is the perfect starting point.<p>No, but why? Why does an email client need a web browser to function, and why is that the &quot;perfect starting point&quot;?<p>The only reason an email client might use a web _view_ for, is for reading HTML emails, and even then that web view should be a far more restricted and barebones version of a traditional browser tab.<p>This approach simply inherits all the security issues from the insane complexity of modern browsers, just to reuse some common components that should&#x27;ve been extracted and separated from all the browser baggage.<p>Hey, Mozilla, remember XUL? Before you decided to deprecate and remove it from Firefox, it was the unified UI framework that both a browser and an email client could use, without sharing any of their core dependencies. What a concept!<p>I&#x27;m surprised Mozilla still has interest in maintaining Thunderbird. I&#x27;m curious to know what the userbase for it is, but I can&#x27;t imagine desktop email clients have a mainstream audience anymore.