Long live Thunderbird

I’ve been using Mozilla’s Thunderbird for about 7 years now and I have seen it grow to the very best email client. Thunderbird is another great product of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox. Firefox has become the most reliable browser in the internet for Windows based operating systems. I just updated the newest version of Thunderbird, 5.0 and the interface is outrageous! Before I go on, take a look at the History of Mozilla:

The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code that was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the Internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. Within the first year, new community members from around the world had already contributed new functionality, enhanced existing features and became engaged in the management and planning of the project itself.

By creating an open community, the Mozilla project had become larger than any one company. Community members got involved and expanded the scope of the project’s original mission—instead of just working on Netscape’s next browser, people started creating a variety of browsers, development tools and a range of other projects. People contributed to Mozilla in different ways, but everyone was passionate about creating free software that would enable people to have a choice in how they experienced the Internet.

After several years of development, Mozilla 1.0, the first major version, was released in 2002. This version featured many improvements to the browser, email client and other applications included in the suite, but not many people were using it. By 2002, well over 90% of Internet users were browsing with Internet Explorer. Not many people noticed at the time, but the first version of Phoenix (later renamed to Firefox) was also released by Mozilla community members that year with the goal of providing the best possible browsing experience to the widest possible set of people.

In 2003, the Mozilla project created the Mozilla Foundation, an independent non-profit organization supported by individual donors and a variety of companies. The new Mozilla Foundation continued the role of managing the daily operations of the project and also officially took on the role of promoting openness, innovation, and opportunity on the Internet. It did this by continuing to release software, such as Firefox and Thunderbird, and expanding to new areas, such as providing grants to support accessibility improvements on the Web….Learn More

Everything about Mozilla is professional and simple to use. Not to mention, Lightweight and Stand-Alone. The new 5.0 Thunderbird features so much and there are Add-Ons available too but not necessary because it looks great, as is. The greatest advantage one has with Thunderbird is how you can integrate other web-based emails and you can handle it in one place. Learn more about Thunderbird, it will make your life much easy. The setup wizard does it all for you:

Thunderbird is an open source program which means it’s free and is for all to use. It is always recommended to use these type of programs but only if they are updated regularly and which means they are reliable, popular and have many developers working to improve it further. Download Thunderbird and enjoy it. And don’t forget Firefox also.