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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by orik on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:56AM (#10655279)
Maybe they decided there's too much technical debt and they can't make changes to the browser as fast as they wish they could in the current framework?

Not 'broken' in a traditional sense but still a valid reason to rewrite.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by toyg on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:01AM (#10655325)
Yeah, but there is a trade-off involved. If you spend 3 years rewriting your toolkit, then the time you will eventually save on further changes has to offset those 3 years, and that's very hard for most projects.
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