Mozilla Thunderbird
| Mozilla Thunderbird | |
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| Maintained by: | Peter Naulls |
| Description: | This is a port of the Thunderbird mail and news reader for RISC OS. |
| OS Restrictions: | Not RiscPC or earlier |
| Languages: | English |
| Alternatives: | Messenger, Pluto |
| Website: | http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Thunderbird |
About
This page is a placeholder for an updated Thunderbird release.
The RISC OS port of Thunderbird is an alpha-quality demo. Most of the changes to make it work on RISC OS are identical to Firefox, nevertheless it serves as a useful platform for improving porting technologies.
Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Downloads
For IYONIX pc, A9home, Omega. and VirtualRPC (StrongARM version only). This will not work on RiscPCs.
Release 2 for RISC OS (February 2008, upstream 2.0.0.12):
This is an unsupported demostration port and is not intended as a useful program. Please do not report bugs against it.
- Via RiscPkg - http://www.riscos.info/packages/ May not work at present
Release 1 has been removed due its many issues.
Installing and using Thunderbird 2
Download all the necessary parts. As well as the Thunderbird application you will also need:
- Tinct – A module for high speed sprite plotting and image enhancement
- SharedUnixLibrary – UnixLib C library support module
Building Thunderbird 2 from source
Thunderbird 2 can be built from source with patches in the GCCSDK Autobuilder. Follow the Using GCCSDK tutorial for details.
