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Mozilla Brought in 79 Million in 2008

For a non-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation is doing pretty well financially, better than many for-profit web companies are doing these days. The organization has released some financial details for 2008, saying that revenue has reached $79 million percent in the last year, up five percent from the previou...

20 November 2009
09:20 GMT

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate Coming Next Week

Mozilla may be known for its Firefox web browser but these days, it has spread out its interests over many web-related aspects. For a while now, it has spun off its communications arm into Mozilla Messaging, which mostly handles Thunderbird, one of the earliest and most popular projects at Mozilla. The old-school des...

6 November 2009
11:29 GMT

Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 Patches SSL Vulnerabilities

Two weeks after Moxie Marlinspikes and Dan Kaminsky revealed null byte SSL exploits in Mozilla software, the recent security update from the Thunderbird crew comes to completely fix Mozilla's SSL certificate handling problems. Previous security updates patched the Firefox browser (3.5.2 and 3.0.13), and can be f...

21 August 2009
08:59 GMT

Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 Released

With much of the focus on Firefox lately, it's easy to forget Mozilla's other important piece of software, the Thunderbird email client. The application has been one of the most popular email desktop clients for some years now, and the release of the upcoming Thunderbird 3 is getting closer with the availab...

23 July 2009
11:51 GMT

Mozilla Launches Thunderbird 3, Download Inside

Mozilla has just launched Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1, the first 3.0 release of the email client that is said to come with lots of new features and updates. Thunderbird has always been one of the most popular email clients on the market and, just like its famous brother Firefox, it now reaches the 3.0 version. As I'...

16 May 2008
04:59 GMT

Mozilla Messaging, Out and About

The Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday that it opened Mozilla Messaging to develop its free, open source Thunderbird email software. Thunderbird was put on hold back in autumn, but now they're taking it on again and the foundation sees a bright future ahead of it.David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging's CEO, s...

20 February 2008
13:06 GMT

Users Urged to Install the Latest Mozilla Thunderbird Patch

Thunderbird, the well-known email client designed by Mozilla, must be updated as soon as possible in order to keep the computer protected, the developers of the application said a few days ago. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the program, so the installation of the latest patch is almost a must have....

20 December 2007
09:54 GMT

Mozilla Thunderbird Losing Its Control Completely

These are surely some difficult days for the popular email software solution Mozilla Thunderbird. First of all, the parent company announced one month ago that it abandons the development of the application to remain 100 percent focused on Firefox, the browser which is now installed on millions of computers. Moreover...

10 October 2007
06:32 GMT

Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Eudora, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail Can All Integrate with Hotmail

Microsoft is currently cooking the complete integration of its Outlook and Windows Live Mail desktop email clients, as well as Eudora, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail, with the Windows Live Hotmail online service. Although the Redmond company is already offering rich synchronization in Outlook with the Outlook Connector ...

24 September 2007
05:12 GMT

Microsoft: Mozilla Thunderbird Is No Match for Outlook

The Microsoft and Mozilla face-off is by no means exclusively focused on the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. The fact of the matter is that the companies' email clients are equally battling over the dominant position on the Windows operating system. Still, Mozilla Thunderbird is trailing behind Microsoft...

19 September 2007
12:18 GMT

Mozilla Abandons Thunderbird, Remains Focused On Firefox

Some time ago, the folks working at Mozilla announced that the famous Firefox producer wants to abandon the Thunderbird development but didn't mention what will happen with the application. Today, the company's officials finally decided to create a new organization that will be 100 percent focused on the so...

18 September 2007
10:15 GMT

Here's Mozilla's Latest Innovation: Penelope!

Eudora was one of the top email clients that ever existed but since the giant companies started getting involved into the competition it was abandoned by most of the consumers. At this time, most of the Internet users are interested in Thunderbird or the default Microsoft Windows email client, Outlook. But most of th...

4 September 2007
10:04 GMT

Mozilla Shutting Down Thunderbird after Google's Demands

A few weeks ago, the Thunderbird producer Mozilla announced that it will abandon the development process of the famous email client but the application will be improved with the help of a few engineers and an impressive community of users. However, numerous comments posted on the Mozilla website accuse the parent com...

14 August 2007
05:18 GMT

Firefox Causes Thunderbird Crisis. Mozilla to Abandon It!

Mozilla developed two famous products: Firefox and Thunderbird. Since the Internet world started to talk about the web-browser Firefox, the email client Thunderbird was somehow abandoned by both users and the parent company. That's why today, after a long period of time, Mozilla decided to take attitude against ...

27 July 2007
05:41 GMT

Mozilla Thunderbird: Emails at Risk!

Mozilla Thunderbird, the famous email client, might get the users into trouble because several security flaws were discovered and confirmed by the parent company. Some of them are also affecting Firefox, the browser created by the same firm but they were already fixed in the 2.0.0.5 release rolled out yesterday. Howe...

19 July 2007
07:54 GMT

Mozilla Thunderbird Doesn't Protect Your Emails

Mozilla Thunderbird is currently one of the most widely used email clients, but this popularity doesn't necessarily mean that it is also secure. This statement is also sustained by a recent security flaw discovered in the application that revealed that Thunderbird 2.x and 1.5.x might not protect the users' ...

31 May 2007
15:36 GMT

Thunderbird Adds Gmail Support!

Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the most popular email clients on the Internet because it is developed by Firefox's creators and provides numerous powerful functions for the email owners. As you surely know, Gmail is the mail solution provided by the search giant Google that was recently made free for all users an...

23 April 2007
04:36 GMT


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