The Lightning project, announced on December 22, 2004 and currently in development by the Mozilla Foundation, is an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and newsgroups client. Lightning is an iCalendar compatible calendar.
Unlike Mozilla Sunbird — or the discontinued Mozilla Calendar extension — Lightning aims to integrate tightly with Thunderbird. The Lightning project is being developed simul...
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The Lightning project, announced on December 22, 2004 and currently in development by the Mozilla Foundation, is an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and newsgroups client. Lightning is an iCalendar compatible calendar.
Unlike Mozilla Sunbird — or the discontinued Mozilla Calendar extension — Lightning aims to integrate tightly with Thunderbird. The Lightning project is being developed simultaneously with the Sunbird project, and the code used for both tools is identical, with a few individual files for each program so that they run as intended.
The first testing version of Lightning, version 0.1, was released on March 14, 2006 and 0.3 was released on October 10, 2006. 0.5 was released on June 27, 2007, 0.7 was released on October 25, 2007, 0.8 was released on April 4, 2008, 0.9 was released on September 23, 2008. 0.9 is the last planned release for Thunderbird 2. A calendar was originally to be fully integrated into Thunderbird...
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