Thunderbird In Your Browser: Will It EVER Happen? [Office Hours Clip]

[@LordHasenpfeffer]

I am perfectly happy with Thunderbird as a stand-alone client application for all my Linux desktops. I still use Firefox but no longer as my primary browser. Thunderbird, however, has been my sole email client since its inception. Webmail has never been a pleasant experience for me. Thunderbird defines the standard.

[@dbenzhuser]

The question then becomes: Is there any, however distant, plan to move away from XUL?

[@Z4KIUS]

running *in the same window*, unlike SeaMonkey, would be great, but in that case I'd also love to see a lot of improvements to the RSS reader to just move to that one on the other hand the persistent nature of email client and less frequent updates make it pretty reasonable to stay separated

[@shikamaru6333]

Not as web mail, but as part of Firefox

[@Steve78392]

Technically it is possible, because Thunderbird is based on Gecko (no Chromium)

[@timheymans3168]

Would definitely be a big plus to use Thunderbird in your browser! Even despite the slower performance... By default I have a browser window open I call "Home" with my gmail and 5 to 10 other tabs that are important things I need to keep an eye on. This is my main reason NOT to use a desktop email client: because it breaks my workflow. ➝ cannot see my email together with 6 or 7 other open tabs. 🤔 If we could have Thunderbird in our browser of choice - just, as a webpage - that would be amazing. 🙏

[@till2911]

Merge with Firefox?

[@joshualeesherman]

Isn’t web based email kind of the opposite of the core of Thunderbird?

[@Meche697]

I cannot SEND email from either TBird, on my computer, or K9, from my phone. Looking elsewhere....

[@ukrolelo]

Selfhosted web mail client would be awesome❤

[@peterehlert9220]

I want a cleaner tbird. More efficient filing, not the huge bulk of more than 10 gb I now have. Local storage, zero web. Nobody's talking about fixing what exists today