As a newer user that most I did end up donating a bit :) Thunderbird has helped me abandon the miserably slow Gmail web-client (that doesn't even load like 15%

As a newer user that most I did end up donating a bit :) Thunderbird has helped me abandon the miserably slow Gmail web-client (that doesn't even load like 15% of the time) for a mostly clean email experience. Some of the dread of writing and reading email has definitely been reduced thanks to them, so I guess I owe them something.. (Not to say Thunderbird isn't without it's own issues, but it's been working well enough for me since switching.)