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What you are asking for, is a resurrection of Netscape Communicator[1], which had along with the browser, an email client, calendar, editor, chat etc. It was f

What you are asking for, is a resurrection of Netscape Communicator[1], which had along with the browser, an email client, calendar, editor, chat etc. It was fairly popular in some corporates for a while, until Lotus/IBM and MS stepped up their collaboration game. --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communicator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communicator

DCKing 6y ago
Sort of. Netscape Communicator critically never included server infrastructure and was completely focused on e.g. connecting to your ISP's email servers. Although a great 'client' experience is absolutely crucial for Firefox Premium's success and would be a modern resurrection of Netscape Communicator in that sense, what I mostly need is convenient 'servers' from a company that I can trust and a business model I can support. In a sense that would be a modern way of meeting the needs of Netscape Communicator, sure :)
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  Agreed, in this day and age we mostly don't have or use the ISP services that come with our connections. Would you then use a Mozilla run mail service similar to gmail complete with calendaring and document storage, all built into a suite of client apps ? I think for a certain demographic this could turn into a good Google competitor if done right.
slightwinder 6y ago
Doesn't need to be a move back to Mozilla Suit (today named Seamonkey). They can offer web-services for this (just cooperate with an existing Provider like fastmail), but with trusted privacy features and embedded in the browser with first class-quality-extensions. Or they push thunderbird, the mail-client they brought into the world to just ignore it for such a long time. A trustable privacy-first mail-client with brainless configuration and maybe some useful modern PIM-features would sell well enough to satisfy a price. I mean there are already services doing that, mozilla couild cooperate with them or just push their own weight in the ring.

DCKing 6y ago

Sort of. Netscape Communicator critically never included server infrastructure and was completely focused on e.g. connecting to your ISP's email servers. Although a great 'client' experience is absolutely crucial for Firefox Premium's success and would be a modern resurrection of Netscape Communicator in that sense, what I mostly need is convenient 'servers' from a company that I can trust and a business model I can support. In a sense that would be a modern way of meeting the needs of Netscape Communicator, sure :)

Jaruzel 6y ago
Agreed, in this day and age we mostly don't have or use the ISP services that come with our connections. Would you then use a Mozilla run mail service similar to gmail complete with calendaring and document storage, all built into a suite of client apps ? I think for a certain demographic this could turn into a good Google competitor if done right.

slightwinder 6y ago

Doesn't need to be a move back to Mozilla Suit (today named Seamonkey). They can offer web-services for this (just cooperate with an existing Provider like fastmail), but with trusted privacy features and embedded in the browser with first class-quality-extensions. Or they push thunderbird, the mail-client they brought into the world to just ignore it for such a long time. A trustable privacy-first mail-client with brainless configuration and maybe some useful modern PIM-features would sell well enough to satisfy a price. I mean there are already services doing that, mozilla couild cooperate with them or just push their own weight in the ring.