Mozilla Thunderbird

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0 on Ubuntu Developer(s) Mozilla Foundation (formerly Mozilla Messaging) Initial release July 28, 2003 (2003-07-28) Stable release 17.0.6 (May 14, 2013; 20 days ago (2013-05-14)) Preview release 20.0b1 (March 8, 2013; 2 months ago (2013-03-08)) Written in C/C++, JavaScript, CSS, XUL, XBL Operating system Cross-platform Available in 53 languages Type Email client, news client and feed reader License MPL Website mozilla.org/thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform email, news and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

The project strategy was modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days.

On July 6, 2012, Mozilla announced the company was dropping the priority of Thunderbird development because the continuous effort to extend Thunderbird's feature set was mostly fruitless. The new development model is based on Mozilla offering only "Extended Support Releases", which deliver security and maintenance updates, while allowing community to take over the development of new features.