The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language. At the moment the "Sunbird" name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.
Our intended user is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird and wants a calendar application based on Mozilla.
In addition, by focusing solely on standalone calendar, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the calendar
What's New
Version 1.0b1:
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
I like it but it is missing a critical feature that will prevent me and many others from using it....iPhone integration, especially with tasks. Numbered are the days of monolithic info management applications that only work on one platform. If iPhone and other mobile integration is missing it's completely useless to me.
I suggest a Sunbird iPhone client that bypasses Apples horrible sync technology to offer a truly integrated solution offering contact, calendar, task and note syncing.
It's cross-platform, like Firefox. That's its main USP, and there are many situations in which it makes Sunbird (or Lightning, the Thunderbird plugin equivalent) very desirable.
There's a new version available (0.3): http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html
[Version 0.3a2]
Anonymousreviewed on 13 Feb 2005
As always, I think it's great that the Mozilla team is remembering the Mac "five percenters" with every project. While Sunbird is clearly not ready to compete with iCal at the 0.2 stage, I can see its potential, and the interface alone is worth shouting about.
If anything, all of us who use Macs at home but are forced to use PCs at work can get excellent alternatives to MS's crap browser (Firefox ROCKS on a PC), Outlook (Thunderbird's great if you don't have to network your mail folders) and now, with Sunbird, whatever the schedule program is that comes with office. Keep up the magnificent work, Mozillans!
No problems with opening Sunbird here, but as I said, it's just a concept demo right now and shouldn't be expected to run alongside iCal.
Looking forward to 1.0. . . .
[Version 0.2]
Anonymousreviewed on 05 Feb 2005
its as unstable as the 0.1 version, it opens and then quits, i've tried opening it dozens of times.
[Version 0.2]
Anonymousreviewed on 05 Feb 2005
Good for testing and getting the hang of, but do not import an existing calendar which has lots of events/alarms/etc. Sunbird will choke.
Great start...oughta be a fine product by 1.0 stage.
[Version 0.2]
Anonymousreviewed on 13 Nov 2004
Does it import iCab and Outlook files?
[Version 0.2b]
Anonymousreviewed on 13 Nov 2004
I have already tried Sunbird on Windows, and it was much more stable. But a very good app.
On Mac OS 10.3.6 it opened, then closed, then opened and displayed a dialog 'Old extensions have been disabled' and then it quit.
I tried it again and it worked. At the moment, I MUCH prefer iCal.
Have to say I really like this layout and would gladly use it instead of iCal.
The reason I went looking for an iCal replacement was due to the Info Drawer being removed from iCal 3.0...just couldn't live with all those clicks to get to an event's details. Drove me nuts.
I installed 0.7 on a Macbook Pro (Leopard 10.5.0) and it seems to be consuming a lot of CPU. Over 100% at times according to Activity Monitor.
I'm using the plug-in called Provider for Google Calendar 0.3.1 so maybe that has something to do with it, not sure.
Keep up the good work. I'm anxiously awaiting the next update!
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The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language. At the moment the "Sunbird" name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.
Our intended user is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird and wants a calendar application based on Mozilla.
In addition, by focusing solely on standalone calendar, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the calendar application by removing components and chrome we don't need.
At the moment Sunbird is in an experimental stage. Although it is quite stable, we recommend it for testing purposes only.
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I suggest a Sunbird iPhone client that bypasses Apples horrible sync technology to offer a truly integrated solution offering contact, calendar, task and note syncing.
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FLASH1296 reviewed on 23 Sep 2008
It is rather confusing I M O.
The learning curve for a calendar ought to be shallow and short.
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Anonymous reviewed on 13 Feb 2005
If anything, all of us who use Macs at home but are forced to use PCs at work can get excellent alternatives to MS's crap browser (Firefox ROCKS on a PC), Outlook (Thunderbird's great if you don't have to network your mail folders) and now, with Sunbird, whatever the schedule program is that comes with office. Keep up the magnificent work, Mozillans!
No problems with opening Sunbird here, but as I said, it's just a concept demo right now and shouldn't be expected to run alongside iCal.
Looking forward to 1.0. . . .
Anonymous reviewed on 05 Feb 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 05 Feb 2005
Great start...oughta be a fine product by 1.0 stage.
Anonymous reviewed on 13 Nov 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 13 Nov 2004
On Mac OS 10.3.6 it opened, then closed, then opened and displayed a dialog 'Old extensions have been disabled' and then it quit.
I tried it again and it worked. At the moment, I MUCH prefer iCal.
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The reason I went looking for an iCal replacement was due to the Info Drawer being removed from iCal 3.0...just couldn't live with all those clicks to get to an event's details. Drove me nuts.
I installed 0.7 on a Macbook Pro (Leopard 10.5.0) and it seems to be consuming a lot of CPU. Over 100% at times according to Activity Monitor.
I'm using the plug-in called Provider for Google Calendar 0.3.1 so maybe that has something to do with it, not sure.
Keep up the good work. I'm anxiously awaiting the next update!
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