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Mozilla Sunbird

 
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Mozilla Sunbird
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Mozilla Sunbird.png
Mozilla Sunbird main window running under Windows Vista
Developer(s) Mozilla Foundation and community
Initial release ?
Stable release 0.9  (2008-09-23; 14 months ago) [+/−]
Preview release none  (n/a) [+/−]
Written in C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
Operating system Windows, Linux, BSD UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, OpenSolaris and OS/2
Available in Multilingual,[1] EULA in English only[2]
Type Personal information manager
License MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website Project Homepage

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 calendar and scheduling extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and provides a calendar to the mail management application.

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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.

Release history

Key:
Old Version Current Version Future Version
Gecko version Version Release date Significant changes
1.8 0.2 February 4, 2005
1.9 0.3 October 11, 2006 Calendar storage moved from flat .ICS files to SQLite
0.3.1 February 19, 2007 Timezones updated for DST change
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]
0.7 October 25, 2007 Cleaner user interface and additional functionality
0.8 April 4, 2008 International timezones, experimental offline support and task mode
0.9 September 23, 2008
  • 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.
1.9.1 1.0

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