Last week, we released the latest version of Thunderbird! This release marks the first of our releases from within our new combined team which I mentioned in the past. Get it & enjoy it — I’ll draw your eye in particular to the new integrated add-on manager and my personal can’t-live-without add-on, the Conversations add-on [...]
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The Future of Messaging
The web has incredible potential to improve our lives even more than it already has. I believe that nowhere else is this more true than in the space of personal communications. Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, today announced that Mozilla will be increasing our focus on messaging and communications on the web. As [...]
Sometimes an add-on is transformative…
In my years of using Thunderbird, there have been a few notable transition points in my personal experience with it. One that I remember well is when we optimized deletion to be asynchronous, which completely got rid of the delay in deleting messages. Another that I’m happy to be able to share now is Jonathan [...]
Crowdsourcing thoughts
05 Oct 2010 at 00:21
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collaboration, Conferences, Mozilla, Open Source, Vancouver, Web
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On Wednesday, I’m attending Remixology 2, an event put together by Fresh Media, on the topic of crowdsourcing. In particular, I’ll somehow be the representative of the entire open web perspective on crowdsourcing (!), Alfred Hermida will be talking about the journalist’s perspective, and Leigh Christie will be there representing artists. I’m hoping that the [...]
Outlook PST importer anyone?
26 May 2010 at 11:11
david
Mozilla, MozillaMessaging, Open Source, Software, Thunderbird
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This week, Microsoft published an open source (Apache 2) SDK to read PST files. From what I heard, it works with Unicode PST files as generated by Outlook 2003 or later. It’s a healthy move on Microsoft’s part, as it releases their users from feeling like their data is locked in to their relationship with [...]
Thunderbird in 2010
2010 will be a big year for Thunderbird. Last year, we launched Thunderbird 3, which is a huge milestone for us. In this post, I’d like to give people a heads-up as to what the coming year will look like. I’ll focus on three topics: our plans for innovation through add-ons, Thunderbird 3.1, and our [...]
Ikea Canada: WTF?
A few months ago, we needed more desks for our office, so I figured I’d order them from the Ikea website. Easy to do, except that the Ikea.ca store doesn’t work with US credit cards, and our corporate card is a US card. So I bite my tongue about the craziness of e-commerce in Canada, [...]
Looking for an awesome test engineer
I don’t yet have a full job description handy, but figured I could start with a draft: Mozilla Messaging is looking someone who can help us drive forward Thunderbird’s test automation framework, tooling, coverage, and community. We’re looking for someone who combines the usual skills we need: Strong domain expertise: in this case test automation [...]
A public internet deserves great beaches
Firefox releases have cool codenames while in gestation. As Chelsea explains, Firefox picks national parks as codenames, as metaphors for the values that go into making a Firefox release. The idea made a lot of sense to us, so we decided to follow suit for Thunderbird. Rather than parks, we picked beaches. A good beach [...]
