So while work slowly progresses, not only doesn’t Opera Mail seem to support addons for calendars and whatnot, I don’t have much faith in Opera’s continued interest in working with email. Opera Mail was recently separated from the web browser. Customer support insists it’s on the left, just like every other mail program, but it’s not. The Send & Receive button is also on the far right. Of course, next ten minutes it’ll check just fine, but it’s an annoyance. It’ll check my mail every ten minutes, but sometimes when it can’t for some reason (a problem with the program? Or my account? I’m not sure), it’ll throw up all sorts of alarming warning signals. It’s practically unsuable, and Postbox of course offers no support for a third party addon - nor will they consider buckling down and adding their own calendar feature to make things easy on their customers.ĮM Client looks really promising. Lightning is still stuck on a VERY buggy 1,0 release on Postbox. It also supports Thunderbird add-ons, but they have to be ported over, and therein lies the problem. The idea was speed increases and features like conversation view built right in. Postbox is a derivative from Thunderbird, a sort of commercial fork. I’ve been trying several alternates to Thunderbird lately: Claws Mail, eM Client, Postbox, Opera Mail… What is irritating is that both product leads have not been notified by Mozilla about the upcoming changes. In regards to that, a solution for existing add-ons needs to be found in the same context. It is highly unlikely that this means the end of extensions for the products, but a solution still has to be found. Closing WordsĪ likely outcome is that Thunderbird and Seamonkey extensions will be moved to another domain, or two domains, from where they are offered to users. This means that both Thunderbird and Seamonkey will have to find alternatives that they can use to provide users with extensions for the products. There is no data for that yet, and it may very well be in 2015 the earliest.Ī very likely consequence of the new AMO is that Mozilla products that are not Firefox related won't be supported by it. We know that Mozilla will merge AMO and the Firefox Marketplace in the future. (Jorge Villalobos) It's likely that when marketplace and AMO and consolidated (whenever that is), applications that aren't Firefox will be dropped entirely. This stance is confirmed in a conversation between Philip Chee and Jorge Villalobos, Mozilla Add-ons Developer Relations Lead. (Philip Chee) Well the reason I ask is that once amo gets merged into marketplace, TB and SM extensions are going to get the boot A recent conversation between Philip Chee and Mike Conley, Seamonkey and Thunderbird leads, indicates this in clear terms: If you are following the development over at Mozilla you may know that the organization plans to merge AMO, that is Mozilla Add-ons, with the Firefox Marketplace.Ī very likely consequence of this is that Thunderbird and Seamonkey won't be supported anymore on Mozilla Add-ons. Seamonkey users on the other hand may have noticed that their product has vanished from Mozilla's product page recently whereas Thunderbird is still listed on the page.Īdd-ons on the other hand are still accessible on Mozilla Add-ons, so that Thunderbird and Seamonkey users can download and install extensions from the official website for their product. Development resources were moved from Thunderbird last year, which had the result that all releases for the email client afterwards were more or less limited to security and stability fixes.
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