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Mozilla Sunbird
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Mozilla Sunbird main window running under Windows Vista |
| Developer(s) |
Mozilla Foundation and community |
| Initial release |
? |
| Stable release |
0.9 (2008-09-23; 9 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 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
| Key: |
| Old Version |
Current Version |
Future Version |
| Gecko version |
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Release date |
Significant changes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Foreign 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.
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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]
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