February 5, 2010 - 9:41 am
Mozilla has released the first alpha of its forthcoming Thunderbird 3.1, code named Lanikai after a Hawaiian beach.
Alphas are very early development releases and should only be tried by developers and testers. Among other improvements, Lanikai Alpha 1 includes:
- Several improvements to IMAP.
- Several fixes for Smart Folders, message filters, and attachment handling.
- Several design improvements and corrections to the interface.
- Download Manager is now accessible as a menu item (Tools > Saved Files).
- Stability and memory improvements.
June 26, 2009 - 1:12 pm
Following recent Firefox update, Mozilla announced its plans to make a slight update to the Thunderbird icon for the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release, currently in Beta 2 status.
As detailed in the creative brief, the update would keep the general layout and palette, could add an @ to the envelope, make the icon more 3D with more layers wrapping the envelope, make the icon more round, and extend the head feathers to the back.
April 8, 2009 - 10:43 pm
As in previous year, Webware has announced the finalists for their Webware 100 award in 10 web related categories. Firefox has been nominated in the Browsing category, but this year it is not the only Mozilla product in the category: Camino, the Mac OS X native Mozilla-based browser, and Ubiquity, Mozilla Labs’ experimental command line interface are also nominated.
Thunderbird is also nominated in the Communication category.
Among other Mozilla related products there are XMarks, formerly Foxmarks, which started as a bookmark synchronizing Firefox add-on; as well as the social-oriented Flock, and mobile browser Skyfire in the Browsing category. Postbox is nominated in the Communications category.
Opera, Chrome, WebKit, Maxthon, triple-engined Lunascape, and Safari are all also nominated in the browsing category.
Vote at Webware 100 before April 30.
May 27, 2008 - 10:52 pm
PC World has published its 2008 list of Top 100 products as picked by readers and editors. In 6th place, we find Flock, the Firefox 2-based browser that integrates with several social networking sites and other web services:
Sick of having to surf to all your favorite sites and services? Flock integrates Facebook updates, Twitter feeds, YouTube videos, Flickr photo streams, Gmail and Yahoo Mail, and blogging tools into a single navigation (and browsing) interface.
May 14, 2008 - 9:45 am
It turned out that a few weeks were really more like a few minutes. Mozilla Messaging has released the first alpha of Shredder (icon wanted), the code name of Thunderbird 3.
As planned, this new release has the main goal of letting Thunderbird users that its email client is alive and healthy and this alpha packs a year of work since the last major Thunderbird release.
May 13, 2008 - 11:22 pm
If you are using a Firefox nightly to browse the web, you (better) know you are walking on a minefield where a just landed patch can explode at any time taking some or all of your bookmarks, cookies or saved passwords with it. So, builds from the Firefox trunk (development code repository) are properly called Minefield. Its logo, a lit dynamite stick stuck into the globe, makes things even clearer.
With Thunderbird, if you go the nightlies way, you should know you are checking your email with a shredder: a bad move and it’s buh-bye to your beloved years-old mail archive. So it has been aptly named Shredder and now Mozilla Messaging is looking for a logo that reflects its risky nature.
May 1, 2008 - 8:55 pm
Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, a stability and security update that patches two moderate security vulnerabilities.
Thunderbird users are encouraged to update by clicking Check for Updates… in Thunderbird’s Help menu, or wait for the update prompt in the next 48 hours.
March 25, 2008 - 3:52 pm
PC World has opened the voting period for its annual Top 100 Products list, a simple survey where everyone can vote and score as many technology products (hardware, software and services) in as many categories as he finds relevant.
February 26, 2008 - 10:43 pm
Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.12, an update that fixes five security vulnerabilities including one labeled as critical by Mozilla, along with more than twenty stability improvements.
Thunderbird 2 is now also available in Afrikaans and Ukrainian.
January 29, 2008 - 9:01 am
David Ascher, head of Mozilla’s messaging subsidiary, has posted an outline of the roadmap for Thunderbird 3 signaling the start of a new stage in Thunderbird’s development which has lacked a clear plan of action since Thunderbird 2 release last year.
Increasing Thunderbird already large user base will become a priority, as a way to maximize its impact. As a new Mozilla subsidiary it also has the need to achieve financial sustainability and a larger user base would definitely help.
