Microsoft's Outlook accounts for four-and-a-half percent, ahead of fourth-placed Yahoo! Mail's three percent. Email marketing platform Litmus rates Apple as the world's dominant email client vendor, with almost 59 percent market share, ahead of Gmail clients at 28 percent.

Keeping up with the upstream changes is not a simple task, and on some occasions it takes up most of our days.'īut Castellani and his team will soldier on, and plan what he described as 'the constant addition of new features that some of our competitors have had for years, as well as the creation of some amazing and innovative solutions that will improve everyone's experience.' 'So, you can imagine how many times per week things suddenly break in Thunderbird because a C++ interface was renamed, or an API was deprecated, or a building library was upgraded. And those coders are 'constantly changing and improving things on a daily basis.'

Rebuild the interface from scratch to create a consistent design system, as well as developing and maintaining an adaptable and extremely customizable user interface Ĭastellani set low expectations for the above efforts, because while Thunderbird has 'a bit more than a dozen core developers,' Firefox has hundreds.

Make the code base leaner and more reliable, rewrite ancient code, remove technical debt.

Supernova will deliver 'A UI that looks and feels modern … aiming at offering a simple and clean interface for 'new' users, as well as the implementation of more customizable options with a flexible and adaptable interface to allow veteran users to maintain that familiarity they love.'Ĭastellani also detailed the following 'primary objectives' for the next three years of Thunderbird development: Thunderbird is undergoing a massive rework from the ground up to get rid of all the technical and interface debt accumulated over the past ten years.' 'It's a modernized overhaul of the software, both visually and technically. 'With this year's release of Thunderbird 115 'Supernova,' we're doing much more than just another yearly release,' Castellani wrote.

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