We have an exciting announcement! Starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Desktop Release channel will be the default download. If you’re not already familiar with the Release channel, it will be a supported alternative to the ESR channel. It will provide monthly major releases instead of annual major releases. This provides […]
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 […]
We’ve released a new update bringing various security, stability and other improvements to Thunderbird. Reminder: The Thunderbird 3.1.x series is no longer supported and will become more exposed to Internet security threats. We recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. To get the latest versions of Thunderbird for […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the newest version of Thunderbird, we’ve added Test Pilot, Mozilla’s platform for collecting structured user feedback, and Telemetry a platform for collecting performance data. Over the past few years, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
