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 [...]
Outlook PST importer anyone?
26 May 2010 at 11:11
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Lightning Update
A week full of announcements: I’ve been so busy working on the Thunderbird 3 release that I forgot to blog about this new development: I’m pleased to announce that Mozilla Messaging has engaged Philipp Kewisch, lead of the Calendar project, to help drive the release of a version of the popular Lightning calendar add-on. The [...]
An update on Thunderbird's support plan, Get Satisfaction and SUMO
Since my last blog post about a position being available for support, I’m pleased to announce (belatedly) that we’ve hired Roland Tanglao to lead Mozilla Messaging support. It’s not obvious being the only person on staff supporting millions of users around the world! In order to learn how Thunderbird support is currently happening, he’s been [...]
An update on Thunderbird’s support plan, Get Satisfaction and SUMO
Since my last blog post about a position being available for support, I’m pleased to announce (belatedly) that we’ve hired Roland Tanglao to lead Mozilla Messaging support. It’s not obvious being the only person on staff supporting millions of users around the world! In order to learn how Thunderbird support is currently happening, he’s been [...]
Support job with Mozilla Messaging
One of my first jobs in IT was as a “computer consultant” for my university. I got to learn a lot about computers of various kinds (including currently useless but still formative bits like writing REXX programs on a CP/CMS IBM 3090 mainframe), and, more importantly, I learned a lot about what it takes to [...]
