{"id":11648,"date":"2007-07-26T20:39:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/26\/mail-less-mozilla.html"},"modified":"2007-07-26T20:39:26","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:39:26","slug":"mail_less_mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/mail_less_mozilla.html","title":{"rendered":"Mail-less Mozilla?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/07\/07\/26\/2041244.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla&#8217;s looking to spin off Thunderbird so they can focus exclusively on Firefox<\/a>.&nbsp; My first thought it to be disappointed, if not appalled &#8212; the best community project e-mail system and browser splitting up?&nbsp; Say it ain&#8217;t so, Joe!<\/p>\n<p>But, on the other hand, I don&#8217;t use T&#8217;bird any more.&nbsp; Indeed, of the people I know, most are using an online mail system (Gmail, etc.), rather than a tied-to-a-PC mail client (unless it&#8217;s corporate mail, like Outlook or the like).&nbsp; There&#8217;s a lot more bang for the buck to focusing on F&#8217;fox than T&#8217;bird,&nbsp;both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozillazine.org\/talkback.html?article=22235\" target=\"_blank\">for Mozilla<\/a>&nbsp;and for the computing public.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8230; kind of sad, if it comes to pass.&nbsp; I actually switched to T&#8217;bird before I switched to F&#8217;fox, and both are sort of like family to me.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Amanda)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird.&nbsp; Mozilla&#8217;s looking to spin off Thunderbird so they can focus exclusively on Firefox.&nbsp; My first thought it to be disappointed, if not appalled &#8212; the best community project e-mail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9136,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/weekend_update.html","url_meta":{"origin":11648,"position":0},"title":"Weekend Update","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Feb-06 8:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not quote sure where the weekend went: Friday Spent the afternoon getting Firefox and Thunderbird installed on Margie's new machine. 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