Lightning beta 1 available for Thunderbird

Mozilla Calendar team has released the 1st beta version of Thunderbird calendar extension, Lightning 1.0. This version supports Thunderbird 3.0, the latest email client from Mozilla Messaging. You can download the lightning extension and provider for Google calendar extension from here. Click on the respective OS links and the click on en-US and then download. For eg, you can download the Linux build from here.

I downloaded installed both the extension and restarted Thunderbird 3.0. Calendar started working fine now. You will find a small calendar icon at the right corner inline with the folder headers. You will also see an Events and Tasks menu at the top.

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