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Ignoring Thunderbird was a massive fail on the part of Mozilla. The email space absolutely took off right as Mozilla narrowed its focus entirely onto Firefox.

• PedroBatista 3y ago
  After the browser took off, ignoring and missing things became the main objectives of Mozilla. Flush with Google money, the voices of highly technical people with a mission were overpowered by the voices of professional non-technical people with an agenda. I'm not even getting into the woke stuff, but Mozilla saw themselves as the "Open [insert new stuff]" stewards. They saw companies constantly building moats and ( understandably ) wanted to create an "open" alternative: Remember the phone OS stuff? Pocket? Servo? Rust managed to survive before the axe came. Raindrop, VR stuff, even IoT.. Since they lost almost all relevance in the browser "market", management somehow "managed" to re-frame their identity to a company that creates cool projects about the latest trend and then lets them rot since they have no traction and eventually closes them. Google does that too, but Google makes billions of dollars and can support all that "exploration", Mozilla doesn't and it will rot away until they close operations. I use Firefox since the Phoenix days, and I like it btw.