Submitted by Hrmbee t3_10zuhab in technology
GrixM t1_j89w64k wrote
Reply to comment by mindlesstourist3 in Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July by Hrmbee
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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