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> There have been way too many products pushed out failed utterly and abandoned by mozilla in the last few years. Have there? Off the top of my head there's Pe
by mintplant 9y ago
> There have been way too many products pushed out failed utterly and abandoned by mozilla in the last few years.
Have there? Off the top of my head there's Persona and Firefox OS, the latter of which Mozilla kept trying to push on with long after the rest of the world had concluded it was doomed. Meanwhile we got Rust and Focus out of Mozilla.
- lawl 9y agoThere was abloginnservice before persona iirc. Firefox hello. thunderbird. I'm sure there are more, but those come to mind imediately.
- mariusmg 9y ago>thunderbird Not abandoned, i'm using it, i'm happy with it, thank you very much.
- lawl 9y agoIt's not developed by Mozilla anymore though. It's a community project now. So yes, is is abandoned by mozilla.
- e1ven 9y agoIt's more complicated than that. Mozilla is financially sponsoring Thunderbird, and helping to aid in development. I'd love for them to do more, but I understand why local mail clients aren't a growth area. https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-home/ https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-fu...
- mintplant 9y agoFirefox Hello stands out to me as another case of Mozilla stubbornly trying to make something work for much longer than anyone on the outside would have advised. It started as an intern project to demo WebRTC and persisted for 3 years amidst incessant predictions of its doom. Thunderbird has received continuous development and maintenance for coming up on 15 years since its public release.