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---On 10/26/2013 07:22 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:<br>
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face="Century Schoolbook L" size="+1">(NB: Thunderbird could
potentially be made into a XULRunner app/Firefox extension which
would moot the Gecko problem but not the large native code-base
problem or its architecturally-necessitated main-thread
operations.)
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<font size="+1"><font face="Century Schoolbook L">This is the best
strategic move Thunderbird could make and survive the changing
ecosystem.<br>
- removes the AMO risk.<br>
- android for free? nsITreeView and Places work there, no?<br>
- revisit the tabs implementation and do it better (bug </font></font><font
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href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487386">487386</a>),
meaning it's already done.<br>
- this "Thunderfox" could be packaged as Firefox plus Tb.xpi
plus Lightning preinstalled. it's certainly not seamonkey; it's
Fx with the Tb 3pane in a (fixed) tab.<br>
- perhaps jcranmer's build system renovation makes this
feasible.</font></font><br>
<font size="+1"><font face="Century Schoolbook L">- a better long
term place from which to chip away at native code.<br>
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