[feedjoelpie]

>So when the crappy HTML Firefox shows up, with way less features than the Firefox of today, remember that this (Thunderbird) was one of the things given up to have it.

Please recall that Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was born as a lightweight, fast alternative to the bloat of Netscape Communicator/Mozilla Suite. Dropping features from an old bloated application is what launched Firefox to fame in the first place.

[hyc_symas]

And then all the extension authors wasted years of their life reimplementing all the features that Firefox had lost along the way.

This isn't progress.