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[deleted] t1_j866re3 wrote

Reply to comment by adams01pl in Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July by Hrmbee

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aztracker1 t1_j87mh2t wrote

I'm not sure of the point. It is absolutely using a full browser engine, the same one as Firefox. Which is pretty much how electron apps work, but with chrome as the engine.

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mindlesstourist3 t1_j87mdjg wrote

> it's not based on Electron.

They say in the blog that it's based on Mozilla Firefox. So instead of a chromium web sandbox (Electron) you get the app based on another browser's web sandbox. I don't really see how that's too different (though I've never used Thunderbird nor Electron-based email clients).

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GrixM t1_j89w64k wrote

It's based on Firefox in that there is code overlap, and the same web engine is used to render emails, but this doesn't make it slow. It just means that the performance is similar to Firefox, which is plenty fast since you need some web engine to render the emails anyway.

With electron-based programs though, it goes one layer deeper. The whole program, not just the email content, is basically running inside another separate program that is the electron javascript engine. That's why it's slower. It would be like if Thunderbird was a website that ran inside Firefox.

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