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Now needs to fork Thunderbird. We could call it Palehorse since it still uses Native American labeling and horses were used for mail delivery.

There was one: FossaMail but it looks like it was discontinued.

Just need ... Seamonkey and Thunderbird ported to Palemoon, then a 6 month focused effort by the internet community sorting out the crapfest of C++ interfaces in gecko and plugging all the holes.

Thunderbird has already has been ported by the makers of Palemoon. It's called FossaMail

I've been using PaleMoon in both Windows and Linux, and Fossamail in just Linux, ever since Mozilla "chromed" Firefox. Although I had to choose a few different add-ons in PM, most of my chosen FF add-ons work fine in PM.

If he's only smart enough to be using Thunderbird, that means he's not smart enough to be using FossaMail

If you like Thunderbird, give Fossamail a try. It is a fork of Thunderbird by the Pale Moon people.

Palemoon has a mail client of its own similar to Thunderbird (probably forked from it) called Fossa., which, like Palemoon itself, uses Goanna, their Gecko forked rendering engine.

The same people who forked Firefox into Palemoon also forked Thunderbird into Fossamail.

FossaMail is a fork of Thunderbird by the Pale Moon people. They have de-suckified Thunderbird the way they de-suckified Firefox.

Things you like about Thunderbird:
  * Supports multiple email accounts -> YES
  * Simple interface -> YES, better than Tbird in my opinion
  * Storage structure is not one monolithic file -> YES
  * Plain text email editor -> YES
  * Filtering -> YES

Things you don't like:
  * HTML email editor -> Don't use so I can't comment
  * Folders are hard to change and re-arrange -> NO, I find it easy in FossaMail.

FossaMail is a fork of Thunderbird made by the Pale Moon guys.

You are using Pale Moon instead of Firefox, aren't you?

Pale Moon 64-bit is Firefox without the "self-induced failure" mentioned in the parent comment.

Pale Moon with Adblock Latitude is AdBlock Plus without the corruption mentioned in this story: Google, Amazon 'n' pals fork out for AdBlock Plus 'unblock' -- report

It is not necessary to use the Classic Theme Restorer add-on in Pale Moon because Pale Moon didn't change the user interface.

Firefox is becoming less and less stable. When many windows and tabs are open, the memory usage begins increasing even when there is no activity, and then Firefox crashes. Now, in recent versions, Firefox crashes but often doesn't report the crashes. The screen just becomes black. The crash reports aren't reliable, they show far fewer crashes than actually occurred.

Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to change the search configuration of Firefox, without notifying users. Most users of Firefox don't now how to change it back. Instead, they may change to another browser. See this Slashdot story: Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine. But "Yahoo search" is just Microsoft Bing search. It's mind-bending: Microsoft is paying Yahoo to corrupt Firefox.

The newest version of Firefox took the "Duplicate Tab" choice out of the right-click menu of each tab, and put that choice in the right-click menu of the displayed page. Often, however, right-clicking on the page itself brings up a different menu because of the way the page is coded underneath the mouse pointer. So it may be necessary to try right-clicking on several areas of the page to find the Duplicate Tab menu choice.

In Pale Moon, the right-click menu contains the "Duplicate Tab" choice in both the tab and the displayed page.

Apparently Mozilla Foundation is trying to discourage the use of the Thunderbird email client. The newest version of Thunderbird, 31.4.0, has the Save-As bug. All file saves are Save As, and suggest a different file name than the name with which the email was saved before. The Save-As bug was reported in September 2014, and has not been fixed in more than 4 months. Is it possible that the bug is deliberate?

I haven't found the bug report of the Save-As bug in Thunderbird. Here is the report for SeaMonkey Composer, the same software that Thunderbird uses: When I click save, the button does what Save As should do, even if I previously saved said file.

Other obvious bugs were recently introduced into Thunderbird. For example, the fields for email addresses are now much more difficult to read.

Pale Moon has been removing some of the issues in their FossaMail version of Thunderbird. I haven't tested it to see if the Save-As bug is fixed.

The underlying problem is that Mozilla Foundation needs better management. At present, Mozilla Foundation management is sometimes excellent and sometimes very unreliable.

It would be very interesting to know who gets the $314 million every year.

During the same years that easy Google millions have been pouring in, Mozilla Foundation has become much more sloppily managed, it seems to me.

Firefox has become much less stable in the past few years when many windows and tabs are open for a long time. The most recent version crashes without activating the crash reporter. Instead of fixing the crashes, Mozilla Foundation has prevented reporting of them.

Apparently Mozilla Foundation is trying to discourage the use of the Thunderbird email client. The newest version of Thunderbird, 31.2.0, has the Save-As bug. All file saves are Save As, and suggest a different file name than name with which the email was saved before. The Save-As bug has been reported, but no new version has been released, giving the impression that the bug is deliberate.

Other obvious bugs were introduced into Thunderbird. For example, the fields for email addresses are much more difficult to read.

Pale Moon has been removing some of the issues in their FossaMail version of Thunderbird. I haven't tested it to see if the Save-As bug is fixed.

Firefox is dead.

I made the switch to Pale Moon last week and have not looked back. Bloody brilliant.

I also switched to FossaMail and am very happy. This was less pressing for me because Thunderbird was in the "OK" category rather than the "steaming pile of crap" which is Firefox.