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[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Oh no! It looks like an electron app.

[–] FistfulOfStars@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Can anyone confirm whether or not it's built on Electron?

The closest I can find is from Feb 2023, saying that at that time it would not be Electron:

Mozilla also still plans to use the Firefox web browser as the core platform for Thunderbird. That leaves Thunderbird as one of the few cross-platform mail applications that isn’t an Electron app or based on web technologies in some way

So possibly Electron-like but based on Firefox rather than Chromium?

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

From what I've read, it is not, but it basically contains Firefox to do the rendering.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

It's based on the "Mozilla application framework" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_application_framework

[–] linarphy@pleroma.linarphy.net 6 points 1 year ago

@FistfulOfStars @kr0n @TheWoozy
It's not an electron app, I installed it.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Electron apps bundle chromium…. It would be ridiculous for Mozilla to bundle their competitions web browser to make Thunderbird lol.

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