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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">R Kent James wrote on 12.05.2017 20:09:<br>
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I've followed <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mykzilla.org/">Myk Melez</a>'s attempts at
variants of Gecko that are not browsers, but as far as I can tell
none have gotten any traction (Positron, qbrt, Headless Firefox).
It's not clear to me that MoCo has interest in anything other than
Firefox, and attempts to "go faster" and "focus" seem to encourage
people to actively disengage from any effort that is not focused
on a better Firefox. I don't mean that as a criticism, after all
Firefox has its own difficult race to run, but we have to face
reality. ...<br>
<p>But just as Firefox has a difficult race to run, so does
Thunderbird. Electron is available today, with lots of tutorials
and support, and a rapidly growing ecosystem. In contrast, as
Myk says, "qbrt is immature and unstable!". It would be great if
Mozilla would embrace qbrt or a related project, and encourage
Thunderbird to be the early demo of that. Hopefully now we will
at least be invited to those discussions. ...<br>
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So from the Thunderbird perspective, I would say that there is no
decision to use Electron as the base of Thunderbird++, and I would
hope that a decision on that would be delayed until considerably
more experience is gained with the alternatives. We would welcome
more engagement with the Mozilla platform team on how to
effectively use Gecko technologies instead.</blockquote>
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