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Mozilla Sunbird
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Mozilla Sunbird main window running under Windows Vista | | Developed by | Mozilla Foundation and community |
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| Initial release | ? |
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| Written in | C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript |
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| Operating system | Windows, Linux, BSD UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, OpenSolaris and OS/2 |
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| Available in | Multilingual,[1] EULA in English only[2] |
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| Type | Personal information manager |
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| License | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license |
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| Website | Project Homepage |
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Mozilla Sunbird is a free, open source, cross-platform calendar application developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers.[3] Mozilla Sunbird is described as "...a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language."[4] Announced in July 2003,[5] Sunbird is a standalone version of the Mozilla Calendar Project.
It is currently developed as a standalone version of the Lightning extension for Mozilla Thunderbird that provides a calendar to the mail management application.
[edit] Sun contributions
Sun Microsystems has been contributing significantly to the Lightning extension project [6] to provide users with an alternative free and open source choice to Microsoft Office by combining OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird/Lightning. Sun's key focus areas in addition to general bug fixing are calendar views, team/collaboration features and support for the Sun Java System Calendar Server [7]. Since both projects share the same code base, any contribution to one of them is a direct contribution to the other.
[edit] Release history
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| Old Version
| Current Version
| Future Version
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| Gecko version
| Version
| Release date
| Significant changes
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| 1.8
| 0.2
| February 4 2005
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| 1.9
| 0.3
| October 11 2006
| Calendar storage moved from flat .ICS files to SQLite
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| 0.3.1
| February 19 2007
| Timezones updated for DST change
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| 1.8.1
| 0.5
| June 27, 2007
| Moved to Gecko 1.8.1 for added stability and includes support for Google Calendar via an extension.[8]
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| 0.7
| October 25, 2007
| Cleaner user interface and additional functionality
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| 0.8
| April 4, 2008
| Foreign timezones, experimental offline support and task mode
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| 0.9
| September 23, 2008
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- Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as connected events.
- When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown.
- The so-called "minimonth" (small calendar month in the upper left) has been given a visual overhaul.
- The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a visual overhaul.
- CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved.
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| 1.9.1
| 1.0
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Version 0.9 of Sunbird is also available in a portable version.[9]
[edit] See also
- Mozilla Calendar Project
- Lightning for Mozilla Thunderbird
- List of personal information managers
[edit] References
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