The good news is that a mail client does not need to support all web standards, so they could possibly trim the codebase down a bit should Firefox go belly up… But still, I imagine that they would need more funding and more devs to go on without Mozilla. Thunderbird relies on Gecko and also draws its security fixes from there. As I said, a stable 10% market share would have been the point where I could have said: “Yep, Firefox will survive as a player within the market, certainly not the biggest one, but it will survive.” Now my outlook is rather negative indeed. Firefox dropped to 5%, then 4%, then 3%… Puh, I mean, it’s looking grim indeed now. If you insist on having your own engine, you need to maintain a certain presence within the market, otherwise web devs will eventually stop testing their websites for your browser. Firefox failed to hold the 10% market share line a few years ago (it remaining at 30%+ market share was utopian anyway ever since Chrome became Android’s default browser and smartphones went viral, let’s be clear here) I knew that things would be getting tough for Mozilla.
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