These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions and known issues for Sunbird 0.7 Please read these notes and the bug filing instructions before reporting any bugs to Bugzilla.
What's New in Mozilla Sunbird® 0.7
Mozilla Sunbird 0.7 is the latest release of our standalone calendar application. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
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A redesigned event/task dialog has been enabled to gather
feedback from the community. It offers a much cleaner user
interface and additional functionality including:
- Events/Tasks can be created in different timezones
- Integrated display of recurrence patterns, reminders
- Custom recurrences and reminders
- Clear separation between tasks and events
- The new event summary dialog lists all the details of tasks and events for calendar which are read-only.
- Colliding events (events in the same time slot) are shrunk so that they fit into the display of a day. This no longer affects other events on the same day.
- Localized releases of Sunbird in Chinese (simplified), Georgian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (European), Spanish (Argentina) and Turkish
- A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website.
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Downloading and Installing
System Requirements
Before installing, make sure your computer meets the system requirements. Mac OS X users must have Mac OS X 10.2 or greater, and Windows users must have Windows 98 or later. Windows users should read the known issues for their operating system.
Downloading Sunbird 0.7
Mozilla.org provides Sunbird for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. To get Sunbird 0.7, download it here.
For builds for other systems and languages not provided, see the Contributed Builds section at the end of this document.
Installing Sunbird
Once you have downloaded Sunbird, follow these instructions to install:
Windows
IMPORTANT: Install the updated timezones for Windows.
Information on obtaining the updated timezones can be found in
Microsoft Knowledge
Base article 931836.
Not updating your Windows timezones will result in unreliable and
erroneous display and entry of time data! Be sure to do this!
Before installing, uninstall any previous versions of Sunbird you may have. From the Start menu, choose Control Panel. When the Control Panel appears, double click Add/Remove Programs. Select "Mozilla Sunbird" in the list and click Removeto uninstall.
Then, double click the installer to start the install.
Mac OS X
Once you have downloaded the sunbird-0.7.en-US.mac.dmg file, double click the Sunbird Disk Image to open it in Finder, and then drag the Sunbird application onto your hard disk. Drag the icon to your Dock if you want it to appear there.
Linux/GTK2
Extract the tarball in the directory where you want to install Sunbird:
tar -xzvf sunbird-0.7.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
This will create a sunbird subdirectory
of that directory.
Other Platforms
Extract the compressed archive and run sunbird.
Uninstalling Sunbird
To uninstall Sunbird, follow these instructions:
Windows
From the Start menu, choose Control Panel. When the Control Panel appears, double click Add/Remove Programs. Find "Mozilla Sunbird (0.7)" in the list and click Remove to uninstall.
Mac OS X
Drag the Sunbird application to the Trash.
Others
Remove the sunbird folder.
These instructions leave your profile in place in case you install Sunbird again in the future. If you wish to remove your profile folder, remove the location described below in the "Profile Folder" section. Note that by doing this you are destroying all of your calendars, saved passwords, settings and other information and should you decide to use Sunbird again you will be starting with a clean profile.
Other Information
Profile Folder
Sunbird stores your user data in one of the following locations:
 Windows 2000, XP |
Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\Sunbird |
 Mac OS X |
~/Library/Application Support/Sunbird |
 Linux and Unix |
~/.mozilla/sunbird |
Known Issues
This list covers some of the known issues with Sunbird 0.7. Other important known problems in this release are listed on this page. Please read both lists before reporting any new bugs.
Windows
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Due to the lack of official timezone updates from Microsoft for
the following Windows releases
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 SE
- Windows ME
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000
There are unofficial patches available for Windows 98/98 SE/ME and for Windows NT 4.0/2000.
Note: These patches are not provided by the Mozilla Calendar Project and the developers can not guarantee that these patches will work as intended and do not have unintended side-effects.
Troubleshooting
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Poorly designed or incompatible Add-ons can cause problems with
Sunbird, including making it crash and slowing down calendar
display. If you encounter strange problems relating to parts of
Sunbird no longer working, Sunbird not starting, windows with
strange or distorted appearance, degraded performance, etc, you may
be suffering from Add-on trouble.
Restart Sunbird in Safe Mode. On Windows, start using the "Safe
Mode" shortcut created in your Start menu or by running
sunbird.exe -safe-mode. On Linux, start with./sunbird -safe-modeand on Mac OS X, run the following command in Terminal:/Applications/Sunbird.app/Contents/MacOS/sunbird-bin -safe-modeWhen Sunbird is started in Safe Mode, all Add-ons are disabled. Disable the Add-on that is causing trouble and then start normally.
Other Resources and Links
The following resources contain useful information about Sunbird:
Contributed Builds
These are unofficial builds and may be configured differently than the official Mozilla.org builds. They may also be optimized and/or tested for specific platforms.
Solaris builds (contributed by Sun Microsystems)
OS/2 builds (contributed by Peter Weilbacher)
Other Systems
Builds for platforms other than the trio officially offered by mozilla.org can be found on the FTP site.
Localized Builds
Many localized builds are now produced and distributed by Mozilla.org on behalf of their authors. View All Systems and Languages to see the set of official builds that we offer.
Builds that have not yet been certified as official Sunbird 0.7 localizations are available by browsing the FTP site.
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