Review of Mozilla's Sunbird Stand-Alone Calendar Application | Linux Today

Review of Mozilla’s Sunbird Stand-Alone Calendar Application

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 4, 2004

[ Thanks to Steve
Mallett
for this link. ]

“Sunbird is the new cross-platform calendar application from the
Mozilla foundation. It is based around the existing Mozilla
Calendar component and is the latest in a string of standalone
applications from the foundation, which are gradually replacing the
current Mozilla suite of applications. The aim of the project is to
create a standalone calendar for someone who uses either Mozilla
Thunderbird or Firefox as their email client or browser. Sunbird
hopes to offer a reduced footprint and performance enhancement over
the original Calendar component. Sunbird is still in the early
stages of development and is certainly experimental software with
version 0.2 having been released recently. Nonetheless Sunbird is a
promising application for those of you already using Thunderbird or
Firefox.

“A word of warning though, as of the moment Sunbird does not
integrate with Thunderbird or Firefox. It is purely a standalone
project, although this is one of the tasks to be solved in the near
future…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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