

Thunderbird, which is developed and maintained by Mozilla Messaging Inc., a Mozilla Corp. “Based on the current release planning, will be released 3-4 months after the Gecko 1.8, when is still the stable release,” said Simon Paquet. Gecko foundation as Firefox 2.0, or other applications, such as SeaMonkey or Camino, also based on Gecko 1.8.1. message forum asked Beltzner how the end-of-life for Firefox would affect Thunderbird 2.0, the e-mail client that’s built on the same

“Presently two-thirds of our users are using Firefox 3, with more than 50 percent accepting the first major upgrade offer back in late August,” said Beltzner in message posted early Wednesday to the Mozilla site. He also noted that a majority of Firefox 2.0 users have taken advantage of an upgrade offer to Firefox 3.0 that Mozilla Beltzner confirmed Wednesday that Firefox 2.0 remains on track for retirement by the end of December.
