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Thunderbird no longer on Mozilla.com? (mozilla.com)

5 points by teilo ↗ HN
Go to mozilla.com and Thunderbird is nowhere to be found (except in the support drop down). It now has it's own domain, mozillamessaging.com, but you wouldn't know that unless you went to mozilla.org.

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makeramen
if you click on the "visit mozilla" link at the right top, it will land you at http://www.mozilla.org/ which shows all their projects including thunderbird.
justdave
Thunderbird has never been on mozilla.com. Mozilla.com is Mozilla Corporation, which is dedicated solely to Firefox. Similarly, Mozilla Messaging is dedicated solely to Thunderbird, so you can get Thunderbird from their site, or the Mozilla Foundation site, which lists both (and several others).
teilo
Not true. Thunderbird has been on mozilla.com for a long time. Right side of screen, big huge icon, above the fold. It is where I have gone to download Thunderbird for the last few years.
justdave
Ah, you're right. :) I guess that is confusing if it used to be there and now isn't, but like I said, Mozilla Corporation doesn't deal with Thunderbird at all (they don't own it and have no rights to it), so there's no reason to link to it there other than just being nice (to end users trying to find it).
teilo
Thunderbird used to have a direct link from the home page on mozilla.com, right side of the screen, big icon. Didn't even have to scroll down to see it. I used that link for years.

Now, since the "We're building a better internet" campaign started, it is no longer on mozilla.com. You have to click through to mozilla.org, or go to mozillamessaging.com, which has no direct link from mozilla.com.