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Without trying to pin everything on the CEO, I don't think it's also fair to treat Firefox as helpless and doomed. For another data point we can look at Thunde
by tux3 3y ago
Without trying to pin everything on the CEO, I don't think it's also fair to treat Firefox as helpless and doomed.
For another data point we can look at Thunderbird, another Mozilla project. Thunderbird had started stagnating. It was borderline abandoned for a while, until Mozilla made it official.
The community tried to catch the discarded codebase and keep it alive, Thunderbird got a new home. Remember we're talking about a desktop email client in the age where a couple major companies entirely own email, as a concept. Email _is_ Gmail and Outlook, it's not even close to a fair fight for a small third party email client to compete against that.
Nevertheless, Thunderbird is growing again.
https://fosdem.org/2024/events/attachments/fosdem-2024-2728-thunderbird-why-visual-change-is-good/slides/22295/FOSDEM_-_Why_Visual_Change_Is_Good_5pNtd9J.pdf#page=21 https://fosdem.org/2024/events/attachments/fosdem-2024-2728-...
- nozzlegear 3y agoAm I crazy, or is there no label for the Y-axis on those graphs? Do we know how much Thunderbird has actually grown?
- leipert 3y agoProbably screenshots from here: https://stats.thunderbird.net/ https://stats.thunderbird.net/