On Friday, Mitchell Baker posted on the future of Thunderbird. In summary, we are focusing efforts towards important web and mobile projects, such as FirefoxOS, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop-only email client. We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious […]
You want to contribute to the Thunderbird project but you’re not into testing or coding? We have many other areas where we and the community-at-large would appreciate help! What about documentation or localization? We talked about software and beta testing in our last post, but software also needs solid documentation. We write Knowledge Base articles […]
When the Thunderbird team recently started talking about how to increase the size of the Thunderbird contributor community, we thought that one interesting thing we could do was to describe the daily life of members of the Thunderbird team. In this post, we introduce readers to Thunderbird’s quality assurance and development activities, and link to […]
If you ever wanted to contribute to Thunderbird, THIS is your chance! Today, we’re launching the Thunderbird Up For Grabs program. The idea is really simple: there are plenty of features we would love to add to the Thunderbird roadmap but we badly lack the resources to complete them. So we decided to put them […]
As we announced back in January, we will kick start Test Pilot, the Mozilla platform tool for collecting structured user feedback, on March 27th, 2012. Over the past several months, Test Pilot has provided valuable information to the Firefox developers with over a dozen Test Pilot studies launched covering tabbed browsing behavior, search interfaces, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We want to thank you for having taken the time to answer the survey we conducted this last November amongst Thunderbird users. We wanted to better understand who you are, what you like, and what features you expect from Thunderbird. We have collected and scrutinized more than 2300 questionnaires in English, German, French and Japanese […]
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 […]
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, and Lightning 1.0, the companion calendar Add-on, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Thunderbird, available in 51 different languages, is based on the Mozilla Gecko 8 engine and […]
A new update for Thunderbird (7.0.1) that fixes add-on upgrades is now available, and all users are encouraged to update to the latest version from within the Thunderbird About window or by downloading from mozilla.org/thunderbird We had identified an issue in which some users may have one or more of their add-ons hidden after upgrading […]
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 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Thunderbird is based on the Mozilla Gecko 7 engine and includes security and stability fixes as well as several improvements to the user […]