Mozilla releases “Lightning”, a new calendar extension for Firefox

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Mozilla releases “Lightning”, a new calendar extension for Firefox

March 21, 2006 in | Permalink

Lightning_2 It seems that everyone is trying to create the holy grail of calendar apps, and now Mozilla has upped the stakes with the release of Lighting 0.1. Aimed to be an extension for Firefox, rather than a standalone app like Sunbird, Lighting will eventually integrate with Thunderbird to create an Outlook-like application. From the horses month:

Some of our future goals are (none of this is implemented right now):

Better Thunderbird integration
email<->task linkage

Integration with the Thunderbird address book

iMIP support (meeting invitations)

Improved CalDAV support

Cached calendar support for offline calendar use

Device synchronization

Despite minimum integration, the initial feel and potential is promising and could prove to be a versatile challenger to Google’s up and coming CL2, and the popular 30boxes.

Download and test it out here.