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[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

On the other hand they literally built an email client into their web browser. I don't think they've met scope creep they didn't like.

I think floorp and zen are trying to be the Vivaldi of Firefox but with less...stuff.

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Netscape 3 with integrated mail and news is still the best internet experience that's ever been conceived or designed or implemented. Communicator screwed it all up less than a year later but it was the best while it lasted.

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fast forward nearly 30 years and pretty much everyone uses webmail, so building a web-based client into your browser to poorly interact with an existing web-based service seems questionable.

If I want something to do a shit job accessing Gmail's shitty non-standard service, I can always let thunderbird do a shit job.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just because you force yourself to use Gmail, it doesn't mean that Thunderbird is shit for others.

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Nobody ever said it was