The Sunbird

August 12, 2008

Mozilla Foundation comes out with its latest standalone software application offering, the Mozilla Sunbird which will attempt to come out of the shadow of the more established and highly regarded predecessor, the Mozilla Firefox including its email client, the Thunderbird.  The Mozilla Sunbird is developed as a cross-platform calendaring software application based on the current calendar components of Mozilla.  The development is part of the foundation’s move to gradually implement a replacement of its current suite of programs with more functional applications that are based on emerging technologies.  The steps taken by Mozilla foundation is a normal process to allow its program suite to keep up with prevailing competitions not only for standalone application categories.

Mozilla Sunbird is intended to augment calendar functionalities provided by Firefox or by Thunderbird.  The design is meant to reduce program footprint while enhancing performance compared to current calendar components of Mozilla.  Being in the early developmental stages, the software application can be considered as experimental but nonetheless promising with the latest release being the version 0.2.  Although designed to offer better calendar features, the Sunbird is currently a strictly standalone application which means that it will not be able to integrate into the Firefox Web browser or in the Thunderbird email client.  This however is one of the features that would be addressed in future releases of the application.