Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s Executive Chairwoman, announced Monday that Mozilla would prefer to stop supporting Thunderbird, their popular email client, as it represents a continuing “tax” on other development projects within Mozilla. She stated that it is constantly in competition for resources that the leadership feels should be “laser-focused on activities like Firefox that can have an industry-wide impact”. It’s no secret that Firefox’s support has been waning in recent years. In a recent post about Mitchell Baker’s announcement, Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham wrote “Mozilla’s recent support for Thunderbird has been limited—it still receives security updates and basic changes imported from Firefox, but adding major features hasn’t been a priority for Mozilla for several years now despite some efforts from the development community. In fact, Thunderbird is currently only updated on Mozilla’s “extended support release” (ESR) schedule, originally implemented to help IT managers deal with Firefox and Thunderbird’s then-new rapid-release cycle.” Source Since we anticipate many Mozilla Thunderbird users will be looking to switch to another email client, we compiled a review of some of the best email clients for Windows. Since Thunderbird is a downloadable program for PCs and Apple OS, we won’t be including purely online applications or mobile apps in this review. The 3 Best Alternatives To Thunderbird: Mailbird You can think of Mailbird as the swiss army knife of email apps. Like Microsoft Office Outlook, we designed it to allow you to connect all your email accounts, manage your schedule, and organize contacts. However, unlike Outlook or Thunderbird, we…
Real talk: I have thirteen tabs open right now on my Chrome browser. That probably disqualifies me in most people’s minds as anyone who could offer assistance with organizing web habits for more efficient browsing. But, believe it or not, 13 tabs is quite a significant improvement from where I was at before. For years, I have been one of those habitual tabbers. I would open and pin a tab for everything. Paused videos, newspaper articles, blog posts, funny pictures of cats and/or overused memes…if it was on the web, it was pinned in my browser. I wouldn’t even close them; the same pins could sit there untouched for months. Then one day I would get fed up and start going through them, rediscovering those hidden gems I had forgotten existed. Or, if I was really frustrated, just right-click and closing without ever knowing what I had deemed important enough. I usually reached that point when it was taking minutes at a time to load up my web browser. A Modern Epidemic Of Bad Habits If I said that I would regularly have two or three dozen tabs open at any given time, most of the people reading this would probably be shocked. But there is a sliver of readers who are scoffing at my amateur status. The point is, the majority of us are guilty of being inefficient and disorganized with our browsing. That could mean a number of things, so I will address three specific issues: Tab Abuse Bookmark…
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Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s Executive Chairwoman, announced Monday that Mozilla would prefer to stop supporting Thunderbird, their popular email client, as it represents a continuing “tax” on other development projects within Mozilla. She stated that it is constantly in competition for resources that the leadership feels should be “laser-focused on activities like Firefox that can have an industry-wide impact”. It’s no secret that Firefox’s support has been waning in recent years. In a recent post about Mitchell Baker’s announcement, Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham wrote “Mozilla’s recent support for Thunderbird has been limited—it still receives security updates and basic changes imported from Firefox, but adding major features hasn’t been a priority for Mozilla for several years now despite some efforts from the development community. In fact, Thunderbird is currently only updated on Mozilla’s “extended support release” (ESR) schedule, originally implemented to help IT managers deal with Firefox and Thunderbird’s then-new rapid-release cycle.” Source Since we anticipate many Mozilla Thunderbird users will be looking to switch to another email client, we compiled a review of some of the best email clients for Windows. Since Thunderbird is a downloadable program for PCs and Apple OS, we won’t be including purely online applications or mobile apps in this review. The 3 Best Alternatives To Thunderbird: Mailbird You can think of Mailbird as the swiss army knife of email apps. Like Microsoft Office Outlook, we designed it to allow you to connect all your email accounts, manage your schedule, and organize contacts. However, unlike Outlook or Thunderbird, we…
Real talk: I have thirteen tabs open right now on my Chrome browser. That probably disqualifies me in most people’s minds as anyone who could offer assistance with organizing web habits for more efficient browsing. But, believe it or not, 13 tabs is quite a significant improvement from where I was at before. For years, I have been one of those habitual tabbers. I would open and pin a tab for everything. Paused videos, newspaper articles, blog posts, funny pictures of cats and/or overused memes…if it was on the web, it was pinned in my browser. I wouldn’t even close them; the same pins could sit there untouched for months. Then one day I would get fed up and start going through them, rediscovering those hidden gems I had forgotten existed. Or, if I was really frustrated, just right-click and closing without ever knowing what I had deemed important enough. I usually reached that point when it was taking minutes at a time to load up my web browser. A Modern Epidemic Of Bad Habits If I said that I would regularly have two or three dozen tabs open at any given time, most of the people reading this would probably be shocked. But there is a sliver of readers who are scoffing at my amateur status. The point is, the majority of us are guilty of being inefficient and disorganized with our browsing. That could mean a number of things, so I will address three specific issues: Tab Abuse Bookmark…
