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Mozilla’s Thunderbird mail client just hasn’t enjoyed the same level of stardom as its Firefox cousin. Their developer must be feeling this discrepancy more than most, as the company has confirmed plans to take the organization out of active Thunderbird development. The shift is officially being spun as an adaptation that lets the Foundation center its energy on Firefox OS and the usual browser plans, but when Mozilla proper will only be handling bug fixes and security updates for a client that’s “not a priority,” we’d say it’s putting Thunderbird on ice. Accordingly, leaked details from TechCrunch show Mozilla moving some of the team out of the project at some point; any new features will have to come from the community, which suggests the future upgrade schedule will be more than a bit unpredictable. The writing is on the wall soon enough that existing owners could have food for thought well before a final strategy is due in early September.

Mozilla giving Thunderbird the (effective) axe, leaving its fate to the community originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week it’s become apparent that Facebook and its switch over to automatically displaying an @facebook.com email address for all users is causing more of a problem than it inevitably would have had “nothing” gone wrong. The folks responsible for making big changes such as the switchover we’ve reported on earlier with Facebook‘s contact emails are certainly used to being shoved around a bit each time they decide that a big aesthetic or behind-the-scenes change has to be made to the social network. What they’re probably not entirely prepared for is when a bug – such as the one creeping up their leg right now – is revealed.

One of the larger bugs to come out of this ordeal is a situation in which the newest email to be added to the Facebook contact list is used for notifications. In this case, that means that anyone who relied on their notifications to see when Facebook needed their attention would have to check their Facebook email – available only on Facebook – to see if they had any Facebook updates. That’s not exactly what Facebook developers had in mind when they decided on the switch.

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Mobile users are also experiencing a similar bug in which Facebook’s efforts to make their social networking ecosystem more of a “consistent” one has also resulted in emails being lost – and in some cases, not even showing up in the specified Facebook email box. Facebook’s ghost in the machine – or perhaps it’s a goblin – continues to wreck the days of thousands as Facebook developers continue to hack away at their brains to fix it all as soon as possible.

Have a peek at our timeline below to see the brief history of this bug and the events that immediately preceded it.

Facebook email bug larger than first expected is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Remember when Facebook changed all of our default email accounts to their own, unused system, without informing any of us? That was fun! But it looks like the problem could be much wider and more damaging than it first seemed. More »

Google announced today via its official blog that Gmail now has more than 425 million active users around the world – a gargantuan feat considering its humble beginnings as a beta release in April 2004. Google’s announcement today means that Gmail is now the word’s largest email service, blowing past Microsoft’s Hotmail for the first time. Yahoo Mail used to be the king of email services. But both Hotmail and Gmail got Yahoo Mail users deviating the course. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Hotmail users’ emails disappear over the New Year, Hotmail Push Email For Mobile Phones Via ActiveSync On Its Way,

It took quite awhile for the official Gmail app to arrive for our Apple-toting friends, but when it debuted, it lacked many features enjoyed by Android users. Well, today the iOS Gmail app got a refresh that brings it a bit closer to the green bot version. Chiefly, notification support to allow folks to set up banner alerts and lock screen notifications, so they no longer have to check their inbox for new messages. Not only that, the app now has persistent login capability, meaning no more re-entry of your Gmail credentials every time you’re preoccupied slaying space pigs for a few hours. Interested parties can hit the source link to get the new goodies.

Gmail for iOS gets notification support and persistent logins, brings joy to Apple mobile masses originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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