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Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a cross-platform email client, news client, RSS, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation

Features

Thunderbird is an email, news feed, RSS feed, and chat (XMPP, IRC, Twitter) client. Its features include message management; junk filtering; extensions and themes; standards support: POP,IMAP, LDAP, S/MIME, OpenPGP; file formats supported: mbox, maildir; file linking; HTML code insertion; cross-platform support for Linux, macOS, Windows, with unofficial ports for FreeBSD, OpenBSD; localization; and security.

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Platform

Social

   

System Requirements

#MinimumRecommended
1Thunderbird will not run at all without the following libraries or packages- GTK+ 3.4 or higher, GLib 2.22 or higher, Pango 1.22 or higher, X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended), libstdc++ 4.7 or higherMinimum required packages plus- NetworkManager 0.7 or higher, DBus 1.0 or higher, GNOME 2.16 or higher
#Minimum
1Mac OS X 10.9, Mac OS X 10.10, Mac OS X 10.11, Mac OS X 10.12, Mac OS X 10.13, Mac OS X 10.14, Mac OS X 10.15
2Intel x86
3512 MB
4200 MB
#Minimum
1Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2
2Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2
31GB
4200 MB

Ratings

Aggregate
3.87 
 5

CNET4 
 5
based on 1235 reviews
CNET4 
 5
based on professional's opinion
FileHippo7 
 10
based on 163 reviews
FileHippo6 
 10
based on 221 reviews
FileHorse8.2 
 10
based on 179 reviews
FileHorse9 
 10
based on 8 reviews
FileHorse9 
 10
based on 3 reviews
FileHorse7 
 10
based on 22 reviews
G2CROWD4.2 
 5
based on 240 reviews
MacUpdate4.1 
 5
based on 328 reviews
PCMag4 
 5
based on professional's opinion
Softonic8 
 10
based on 911 reviews
Softonic7 
 10
based on 158 reviews
Softpedia4.2 
 5
based on 753 reviews
Softpedia4.1 
 5
based on 99 reviews
TechRadar4 
 5
based on professional's opinion
TechSpot3 
 5
based on 65 reviews
TechSpot4.4 
 5
based on 15 reviews
Uptodown3 
 5
based on 6 reviews

Developer

Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation

Written in

C++, JavaScript, Python, CSS

Initial Release

28 July 2003

License

MPL v2, Other Open Licenses

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