

On February 19 2008, Mozilla Messaging started operations as a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation responsible for the development of email and similar communications.
#Mozilla thunderbird history software
The purpose of this initiative is "to develop Internet communications software based on the Thunderbird product, code and brand". On September 17 2007, the Mozilla Foundation announced the funding of a new internet communications initiative with Dr. This change is being done in order to stimulate development in Thunderbird, which has been neglected during the Mozilla focus on Firefox. On July 26 2007, the Mozilla Foundation announced that Thunderbird would be developed by an independent organization, because the Mozilla Corporation (the for profit portion of Mozilla) is focusing on Mozilla Firefox development. An unofficial is accessible via web or newsreader. The current version is 0.8, which was released on April 4, 2008.Īlso on October 11, 2006, Qualcomm and the Mozilla Foundation that "future versions of Eudora will be based upon the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email program." The project is code-named.

Lightning 0.1 was released on March 14, 2006. Lightning is just a project name, but not a product name. On December 23 2004, the Project Lightning was announced for tightly integrating calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird. Note (2): There were no version 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 since the bugs/issues affected Firefox only. Note (1): due to delay and discovery of issues that needed fixing in all three of Mozilla Foundation's products.
#Mozilla thunderbird history professional
In 2004, together with the change of Firefox's visual identity by Jon Hicks, a more professional logo that is currently in use. The original Thunderbird logo was just a modified Firebird logo: with a simple shifting of hue value from red to blue. This contrasts with the previous all-in-one approach, and will hopefully lead to more efficient and maintainable code, as well as allowing users to mix and match the Mozilla applications with alternatives. Significant work on Thunderbird restarted with the announcement that from version 1.5 onwards, the main Mozilla suite would be designed around separate applications using this new toolkit. With the success of the Mozilla Firefox, however, demand increased for a mail client to go with it, and the work on Minotaur was revived under the new name of Thunderbird, and migrated to the new toolkit developed by the Firefox team.Įarly beginnings: A simple email and news client Originally launched as "Minotaur" shortly after " Phoenix" (the original name for Mozilla Firefox), the project failed to gain momentum.
