February 19, 2007

Weekly Update 2007-02-19

Due to the President’s Day Holiday there was not a Mozilla Weekly Update meeting today. Not sure if they are going to have it tomorrow since there is no agenda on the site for this week. While nothing has been announced officially, it looks like having the Fx 1.5.0.10/2.0.0.2 release this week was very doubtful. I was taking a look over on the Mozilla FTP server at the ‘candidates’ directories for both of the Fx 1.5.0.10 RC2 and Fx 2.0.0.2 RC4 builds were put out on Friday. After a quick look over at the Firefox:1.5.0.10-2.0.0.2 on the Mozilla Wiki, the…

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Fx Add-ons Overhaul Pt 4

[Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 3.5][Part 4][Part 4.5] It has now been a week since the Add-Ons Manager Overhaul (AMO) was suppose to be live. The latest news from the Mozilla Webdev Blog is AMO Deployment This Week. The AMO both with the multiple locals as well as the amount of traffic has brought multiple challenges as well as set backs for the final launch: Scalability of our new site has been a unique challenge for us. We are trying to tackle localization for a large number of locales for both static and dynamic data, which is something not many sites…

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