Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home
by tangue on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:43AM
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The HTML5/JS option is probably the only way out for Thunderbird but it won't seduce current backers. So it's a bit hard for them to say "Thunderbird has been abandoned on an motorway service station".
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Well it won't seduce me.
Who wants an email client that uses 600 MB RAM just to open and that eats 100% CPU to animate your email folders?
To be clear, Thunderbird is currently implemented in XUL and JS. Moving to HTML and JS is not going to significantly change its performance characteristics, mostly. There are some details that will need to be done right, like needing to create a good HTML replacement for <xul:tree>, of course.
Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home
by cookiecaper on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @01:47PM
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There comes a time where good sense means you have to kiss these old projects goodbye. It makes sense for Thunderbird to try to move to a platform that users actually want to use. Thunderbird is in the state it's in because very few people still value a "fat" mail client.