In October 2014, 22 active contributors to Thunderbird gathered at the Mozilla office in Toronto to discuss the status of Thunderbird, and plan for the future. As background, Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, posted in July 2012 that Mozilla would significantly reduce paid staff dedicated to Thunderbird, and asked community volunteers to move […]
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, today released new versions of Mozilla Thunderbird, its free and open source email application, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We are happy to announce that the new Thunderbird release includes several new features and improvements, such as improved message thread management options, as […]
This release of Mozilla Thunderbird comes with a new button on the right hand side, at the top of the window; called the Menu Button it provides more options to customize the user interface. The Menu Button allows users to remove the Menu Bar from the top of the window in order to grant more […]
In addition to many other features, this new version of Thunderbird supports Chat: you now can enjoy real time conversation with your contacts, right from your favorite messaging application. On top of this, Thunderbird makes it easy to search through both past conversations and received emails. Let’s say that a week ago, I sent you […]
Thunderbird is an absolutely core tool used by 20 million people to manage one of the most important areas of their internet life: their email. When Mozilla recently announced some big changes to our Thunderbird strategy (link: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/) we knew that there would be an uproar. We knew that it would be interpreted by many […]
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, today released new versions of Mozilla Thunderbird, its free and open source email application, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you’ve ever dreamt of having a personalized email address (such as “kirk@chezkirk.net” or “dad@thesmithfamily.com”) for you, your family or your business, Thunderbird has […]
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, today released new versions of Mozilla Thunderbird, its free and open source email application, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Thunderbird, available in 52 different languages, is based on the Mozilla Gecko 11 engine. This version of Thunderbird features a revised user […]
Back in 2011, we conducted some Thunderbird product research and found that a large proportion of respondents was expecting to obtain an new email address with Thunderbird. As unexpected as this finding was, we looked at it more closely and got convinced that this was a very nice feature. Since Mozilla is not in the […]
Starting on April 24, 2012, we will stop supporting Thunderbird version 3.1.x. What this means is, while you can continue to use Thunderbird 3.1, we will not be making improvements to Thunderbird 3.1 which would include security and performance fixes. Upgrade to the Latest Version of Thunderbird Now! By upgrading to the latest version of […]
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, today released new versions of Mozilla Thunderbird, its free and open source email application, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Thunderbird, available in 52 different languages, is based on the Mozilla Gecko 10 engine and includes improvements to searching your emails and […]
We are pleased to announce that Thunderbird is following the Firefox Extended Support Release plan as documented in proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox. As mentioned a few months ago in Thunderbird Enterprise specific wiki pages, the ESR version of Thunderbird is for use by enterprises, public institutions, Universities and other organizations […]
As part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development process, the Beta development channel and the Earlybird channel have been updated with the latest versions. For information about Thunderbird Beta and Earlybird please visit: Download Thunderbird Beta or Earlybird: http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/ Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/10.0beta/releasenotes/ For desktop users, if you previously installed a beta or Earlybird version of […]
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, today released new versions of Mozilla Thunderbird, its free and open source email application, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Thunderbird, available in 51 different languages, is based on the Mozilla Gecko 9 engine and includes improvements to Personas, better keyboard support […]
As part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development process, the beta development channel has been updated with the third beta version of Thunderbird. For information about Thunderbird Beta please visit: Download Thunderbird Beta: http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/all-beta.html Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/9.0beta/releasenotes/ For desktop users, if you previously installed a beta version of Thunderbird you will receive an automated update […]
Lightning 1.0, the calendar Add-on for Thunderbird, is here. Over 1 million users already started using Lightning during its beta program and their feedback has helped us to make an even better calendar program. Here are a few articles to get you started using Lightning as your calendar and task manager: Summary of Lightning Articles […]
