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[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My personal pet peeve is that Firefox profiles are in ~/.mozilla/firefox and Thunderbird profiles are in ~/.thunderbird.
If your flagship product creates a folder named after your company, why not use it for all software by your company???

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 11 months ago

Thunderbird isn't really developed by Mozilla any more. It's owned by a subsidiary of Mozilla and is mostly community-run.