Mozilla Thunderbird: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
In computers, the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is a spinoff project from Mozilla, providing a standalone mail and news client. The project aims to develop software that is smaller and faster than Mozilla while still being a fully cross-platform application based on the XUL user interface language. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a spinoff of Mozilla that aims to create a smaller and faster web browser. In the same way as Firefox aims to extract and improve the browser component of the Mozilla suite, Thunderbird is a refinement of the mail and news interface.
Originally launched as Minotaur shortly after Phoenix (the original name for Mozilla Firefox), the project failed to gain momentum. With the success of the latter, however, demand increased for a mail client to go with it, and the work on Minotaur was revived under the new name, and migrated to the new toolkit developed by the Firefox team.
Significant work on Thunderbird restarted with the announcement that from version 1.5 onwards, the main Mozilla suite would be designed around separate applications using this new toolkit. This contrasts with the previous all-in-one approach, and will hopefully lead to more efficient and maintainable code, as well as allowing users to mix and match the Mozilla applications with alternatives.
Thunderbird includes support for OpenPGP encryption and a statistical spam filtering method.
Version
Thunderbird version 0.7.3 was released on August 4, 2004.
Release history
| Version | Release date | Most important changes |
|---|---|---|
| Thunderbird 0.1 | July 28, 2003 | |
| Thunderbird 0.2 | September 3, 2003 | |
| Thunderbird 0.3 | October 15, 2003 | |
| Thunderbird 0.4 | December 5, 2003 | |
| Thunderbird 0.5 | February 9, 2004 | |
| Thunderbird 0.6 | May 3, 2004 | Pinstripe theme for Mac OS X, Windows installer, better junk mail handling, IMAP IDLE and LDAP version 3 support. |
| Thunderbird 0.7 | June 16, 2004 | Smaller download size, improved IMAP support, updated extension and theme managers |
| Thunderbird 0.7.1 | June 28, 2004 | Bugfix release. |
| Thunderbird 0.7.2 | July 8, 2004 | Vulnerability patch (Windows only). |
| Thunderbird 0.7.3 | August 4, 2004 | Vulnerability patch. |
| Next expected release dates | ||
| Thunderbird 0.8 | in fact still unsure | Improved Privacy Controls, Global Inbox, RSS Integration, Mozilla Suite Profile Migration, Improved Spell Checker Support. |
| Thunderbird 0.9 | in fact still unsure | More RSS Integration, Favorite Folders, Menu and Dialog Polish, Message List Groups. |
| Thunderbird 1.0 | September, 2004 | Bug fixing, polish work. |
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