Is Thunderbird discontinued? Mozilla decided to hand off Thunderbird to the community back in 2014. Though the email windows client is still supported by Mozilla Foundation, it may be a good opportunity to move on to new email clients, such as Mailbird or another top alternative.

Is Thunderbird still part of Mozilla?

Mozilla brought Thunderbird back in-house in an announcement on May 9, 2017, and continued to support its development. The Thunderbird development team expanded by adding several new members and overhauled security and the user interface.

Why is Mozilla Thunderbird abandoned?

Mozilla almost abandoned Thunderbird a few years back

At the time, Mozilla announced that due to a lack of funding it was stopping development on new Thunderbird features, committing to providing only security updates moving forward. ... The current Thunderbird version is v68.