Posts Tagged ‘Thunderbird’

French tax authorities moving 130000 PCs to Thunderbird

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Posted 30 Oct 2009 — by Arun
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According to OSOR.EU,

All 130,000 desktop PCs at the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGPF) in Paris are to be switched to using the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, its Lightning calendar and the open source groupware application OBM.

The French tax authority DGPF is the result of a merger begun in 2007 of the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) and the Directorate General of Public Accountancy (DGCP). Each uses their own email system, IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook and the integration of the two departments prompted a move to new email and groupware software.

The tax authority selected Thunderbird for reasons of cost and management of licenses.

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Raindrop from Mozilla Lab

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Posted 23 Oct 2009 — by Arun
Category Technology

Mozilla Lab has introduced a new tool called Raindrop that integrates different messaging systems like email, Facebook, Twitter, IM etc using a web browser like Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. The project is open source and is led by Thunderbird team.

According to Mozilla, A central principle behind Raindrop is that messaging should be personal — we want Raindrop to be people-centric both in how we process messages, and in how we can help give people control over their personal data and experiences.

The idea behind Raindrop is, according to Mozilla,  when a friend’s link from YouTube or flickr arrives, your messaging client should be able to show the video or photos near or as part of the message, rather than rudely kicking you over to a separate browser tab. Notifications from computers and mailing lists should be organized for you, not clutter your Inbox or require tedious manual filter setup.

The development platform for Raindrop includes front-end support for applications of various kinds (including mobile), but Raindrop’s flagship applications will be built entirely for any modern web browser that supports Open Web technologies.  Version 0.1 embeds Bespin to support a fast, iterative development style.  It also provides front-end widgets and back-end code that supports important high-level concepts such as people, conversations, and mailing lists, with more to come.  CouchDB and Python are key parts of our prototype architecture as well.

If you want to try it, you can download Raindrop from here.

Update: First look: Inside Mozilla’s Raindrop messaging platform.

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GMail having issues this morning

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Posted 24 Sep 2009 — by Arun
Category General

I’m having trouble accessing my GMail accounts through Thunderbird or through web or through my GMail manager. I could log in through web sometimes, but then I get the error shown below. I heard from others that they too have issues with GMail this morning, including the IMAP access through Thunderbird.

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Firefox, Skype, OpenOffice kick Microsoft’s butt

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Posted 17 Sep 2009 — by Arun
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Firefox, Skype and OpenOffice are finally cracking Microsoft’s monopoly in the browser, instant messaging and Office software suite. According to InfoWorld, exo.preformance.network, which tracks the actual usage and configurations of thousands of PCs around the world, reported that Firefox is being used in 50.6% of the PCs and Skype became the most widely used instant messaging client and OpenOffice adoption is 50% higher in Europe and Asia than in U.S.

  It’s a good news and would finally make Microsoft deliver better products if they want to compete. I also read this morning that Google Docs is giving serious challenge to Microsoft Office in workplace. The survey reported that 1 in 5 companies reported that Google Docs is widely used in their workplace. It’s a good sign and I hope more companies will look into other options before they decide to pay a high price to Microsoft. We use Firefox for browsing, Thunderbird as email client and GMail for emails in our office.

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Snowl – Messaging inside Firefox

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Posted 07 Aug 2008 — by Arun
Category Technology

Mozilla Lab introduced yesterday a addon for Mozilla called Snowl. The purpose of Snowl is to integrate different messaging into the browser. It doesn’t matter where messages originate. It could be RSS feed or forum or social networks or email etc. It allows a search based interface for message retrieval and browser functionality for navigating messages similar to navigating bookmarks, history etc.

The initial prototype supports two sources of messages: RSS/Atom feeds
and Twitter. And it exposes two interfaces for reading them. First, a
traditional three-pane “list” view, targeted to active reading of
important messages. Second, a “river of news” view designed for casual browsing.

In future Snowl might include

  • support for additional message sources, e.g. Facebook, AIM, Google Talk, etc.;
  • an interface for writing and sending messages to enable true two-way conversations;
  • an API to make it easier for developers to build new experimental interfaces, e.g. an instant message view.

This sounds more like Mozilla is working towards getting Firefox do everything and thus replacing Thunderbird email client. Mozilla lab acknowledges that some of the features overlap Mozilla Messaging’s idea for Thunderbird. Let’s wait and see.

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Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 released

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Posted 17 Apr 2008 — by Arun
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Mozilla updated it’s Firefox web browser to fix a problem with Javascript engine. Some users experienced crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. This could introduce security problem and successful exploitation creates a means to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. You are safer if you are using Firefox 2.0.0.14.

According to Mozilla, Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail.

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Netscape Messenger (Email Client) 9.0 Alpha 1 released

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Posted 16 Nov 2007 — by Arun
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Netscape has released the first alpha version of Netscape Messenger 9. Netscape Messenger 9 is an email client based on Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 similar to Netscape browser which is based on Firefox source. Netscape Messenger 9 is available for all 3 platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). It’s an alpha version, so use it with caution. Netscape Messenger is compatible with all Thunderbird 2.x addons. You can launch AOL IM directly from the messenger.

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