Welcome to a brand new feature called “Meet The Team!” In this ongoing series of conversations, I want to introduce you to the humans behind the software you use every day. When and why did they fall in love with technology? What does their day-to-day schedule look like? What attracts them to open-source projects? And what’s their playlist of choice when hacking away on Thunderbird?
Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” will be intuitive and welcoming to new users, while remaining familiar and comfortable for veteran users. See how we’re accomplishing that balance with a preview of the new Folder Pane.
“Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?” Let’s answer that burning question with some important history, and a look into the future.
A few short years ago, Thunderbird was on the verge of extinction. But you saved us! Today, we need your help again.
Need help with Thunderbird? Whether you need tech support or just an answer to a question, here’s how to find the help you need. And how to help the people who are helping you!
We fed Midjourney the official Thunderbird logo and a series of descriptive text prompts to produce these 4 stunning desktop wallpapers!
The Thunderbird Time Machine boots up Windows XP, and travels back to 2004 to pay respect to Thunderbird 1.0.
Making Thunderbird requires an entire community: programmers, graphic designers, translators, writers, financial supporters, enthusiastic fans, quality assurance helpers, bug hunters, & beta testers. Want to contribute and help make Thunderbird better than ever? Here’s how!
It’s the Summer of 2003. Linkin Park, 50 Cent, and Evanescence have top-selling new albums. Apple’s iPod hasn’t even sold 1 million units. Mozilla’s brand new web browser is still called Firebird. And a new cross-platform, open-source application called Thunderbird just debuted from the foundations of Mozilla Mail…
What was Thunderbird’s income in 2021? How much was spent? How much is left in the bank? Here’s a breakdown of our 2021 financials, and how it affects our team, our product, and our roadmap.
As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. This move has been in the works for a while as Thunderbird has grown in donations, staff, and aspirations. This will not impact Thunderbird’s day-to-day activities or mission: Thunderbird will still remain free […]
April Fools! We still have open bugs, but we’d like your help to close them! We are grateful to have a very active set of users who generate a lot of bug reports and we are requesting your help in sorting them, an activity called bug triage. We’re holding “Bug Days” on April 8th (all […]
During the last month we attended two events: FOSDEM, Europe’s premier free software event, and a meetup with the folks behind DeltaChat. At both events we met great people, had interesting conversations, and talked through potential future collaboration with Thunderbird. This post details some of our conversations and insights gather from those events. FOSDEM 2019 […]
From the Thunderbird team we wish you a Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019, and in this blog post we’ll look at what we got accomplished in 2018 and look forward to what we’re going to be working on this year. Looking Back on 2018 More Eggs in the Nest Our team grew considerably in […]
We’re Hiring Again! You read that right, we are hiring “Software Engineers”, plural. We have some big plans for the next year and you can be a part of it! You can find the job post below. If you are interested Email your CV/Resume and cover letter to: apply@mozillafoundation.org. About Thunderbird Thunderbird is an email […]
