It also doesn&#x27;t seem to make any sense to me....<p>&gt;Firefox and Thunderbird have lived with competing demands for some time now<p>But we mashed Pocket into Firefox because we think some weird non-bookmarking bookmarking (non)solution is more important for browsing the internet than viewing emails.<p>&gt;At the same time, build, Firefox, and platform engineers continue to pay a tax to support Thunderbird.<p>Not many people use Thunderbird so we don&#x27;t want to fix it anymore.<p>&gt;These competing demands are not good for either project.<p>They&#x27;re built on identical platforms but we just don&#x27;t want to maintain Thunderbird.<p>&gt;Engineers working on Thunderbird must focus on keeping up and adapting Firefox’s web-driven changes. Engineers working on Firefox and related projects end up considering the competing demands of Thunderbird, and&#x2F;or wondering if and how much they should assist Thunderbird. Neither project can focus wholeheartedly on what is best for it.<p>We don&#x27;t care or think about Thunderbird when developing Firefox. Firefox is our main priority and we let Seabird die a pathetic death a long time ago so why pretend to develop anything besides just a web browser?<p>&gt;“Neither project can focus wholeheartedly on what is best for it”<p>We don&#x27;t want to develop Thunderbird anymore.<p>I could keep paraphrasing but it&#x27;s basically just &quot;gmail rawks&quot; over and over and over again in different words.<p>It&#x27;s sad but basically someone needs to fork Thunderbird as it is now (FossaMail, anyone?) and just run with it from there. The beauty of Open-Source is that now the community can maintain it&#x27;s own email client. If you don&#x27;t want a web-based client apparently that&#x27;s going to be the only way to view your emails and also not want to kill yourself going forward.