The Lightning project, announced on December 22, 2004, and developed by the

Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, ...

, produces an extension that adds

calendar A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a phys ...

and scheduling functionality to the

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation and operated by subsidiary MZLA Technologies Corporation. The proje ...

mail and newsgroup client and

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internet suite. Lightning is an

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compatible calendar. Unlike the discontinued

Mozilla Sunbird Mozilla Sunbird is a discontinued free and open-source, cross-platform calendar application that was developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers.

and Mozilla Calendar extension, Lightning integrates tightly with Thunderbird.Lightning Project Launched to Provide Calendar Features for Mozilla Thunderbird- MozillaZine
- MozillaZine article announcing the Lightning project and its aims. Lightning is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Windows, macOS and Linux, and is installed by default on Thunderbird.

History

Version 0.9 was the last planned release for Thunderbird 2. A calendar was originally to be fully integrated into Thunderbird 3, but those plans were changed due to concerns with the product's maturity and level of support. Lightning 1.0b2 is compatible with Thunderbird 3.1, Lightning 1.0b5 is compatible with Thunderbird 5 and 6, and Lightning 1.0b7 is compatible with Thunderbird 7. Lightning 1.0 was released to the public on November 7, 2011. It was released alongside Thunderbird 8.0. Following that, every Thunderbird release has been accompanied by a compatible Lightning point release. Lightning finally started shipping with Thunderbird with version 4.0. As of 21 October, 2018, Lightning 5.4 is incompatible with the latest release of Thunderbird 60.2.1.

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, t ...

contributed significantly to the Lightning Project to provide users with an alternative free and open-source choice to

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by combining OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird with the Lightning Extension. In addition to general bug-fixing, Sun focused on calendar views, team/collaboration features and support for the Sun Java System Calendar Server.Interview On Mozilla Lightning and OpenOffice.org
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References

External links

Mozilla Thunderbird - Lightning Calendar — Mozilla

Lightning :: Add-ons for Thunderbird or SeaMonkey
- Mozilla Add-ons
Provider for Google Calendar :: Add-ons for Thunderbird or SeaMonkey
(Requires Lightning) - Mozilla Add-ons
Mozilla Calendar Blog

The Rumbling Edge
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lightning (Software) Discontinued Thunderbird WebExtensions Mozilla Thunderbird Free calendaring software Free personal information managers Free software programmed in C++ Software that uses XUL

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