![]() Now, after nearly six years, the team is ready to deliver an optimized email client, and the first major step is the launch of the modern, consistent interface. Thunderbird is developed and maintained by employees of MZLA Technologies. ![]() This changed when MZLA Technologies was formed, a subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. One of the outcomes of the community-drive approach to development was that the user interface was inconsistent. It turned out as well that long-term success and sustainability was not guaranteed at that time. While that meant a growing community and keeping Thunderbird alive, it also meant that coordination was challenging. Thunderbird development suddenly peaked as new supporters and contributors contributed to the project. Back in 2012, Mozilla announced that it would hand over Thunderbird to the community to turn it into a community-driven model. Mozilla developed Thunderbird next to Firefox for almost the first then years of the email client's existence. Things break regularly because of the many changes that Mozilla makes on a daily basis, and while these apply to development builds of Thunderbird for the most part, dealing with them binds resources. If Mozilla's massive army of developers makes changes to the code, Thunderbird's much smaller team needs to review these to make sure that they don't affect functionality in the client. Dependence on Firefox comes at a cost, however, as Thunderbird relies heavily on Firefox code.
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