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Or ... just maintaining two frontends is a lot of work? For something used by relatively few people? No conspiracy needed.

And I believe gmail works fine with Firefox? Did last time I used it anyway. Does it not work for you?

And gmail still supports POP/IMAP and SMTP I assume? Whenever I had to use gmail for work I used to Hillary my emails to FastMail. Always worked pretty well. Can also mutt or Thunderbird or whatnot.

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The basic HTML frontend hasn't changed in years. I don't see what sort of special maintenance is needed for it, or why it would be a "lot" of work.

It will need to be compatible with any changes made for the standard frontend, it will need servers to run it, the code can't forever keep running on Java 1.2 or PHP 4.2 or whatever, you will need to retain expertise on it all, etc. etc.

Maintaining these things, even without user-visible changes, can actually be quite time-consuming and difficult.

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