3133 Upgrade Thunderbird or SeaMonkey to a full Personal Information Manager with Lightning. It allows you to manage your daily schedule (events and tasks) directly within Thunderbird or SeaMonkey.

The Calendar Project reports that (finally) the 1.0 beta1 release of Lightning has been completed and is now available via AMO.

Lightning 1.0 beta1 is the latest stable release built for Thunderbird 3 and SeaMonkey 2 and contains nearly 500 bugfixes and improvements over the 0.9 release, that improve the add-on's stability, performance and memory consumption.

Nearly 16 months after the 0.9, this release is more than overdue, with nearly 500 bugfixes and improvements. Notable improvements of this release are:

• Seamless integration into the new Thunderbird 3.0 user interface
• The different modes (calendar view, task view) are now displayed in tabs
• Lightning now supports SeaMonkey 2.0 as a host application
• You can now define multiple alarms for a single event
• CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers have been improved
• The application stability, performance and memory consumption have been improved
• Estonian, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Indonesian, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, Turkish and Vietnamese were added as new languages. Unfortunately no builds in Traditional Chinese, Slovenian, Swedish or Ukrainian are available for 1.0 beta1

Lightning 1.0 beta1 is available for Windows, Mac OS X (universal builds) and Linux in 37 different languages including English. Read the release notes for Lightning 1.0 beta1 before downloading.

For more information, visit:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/

and

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2313

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