March 19, 2007

Reminder: Upcoming Releases Moved

A quick reminder as part of the blog re-design on March 10th, the Upcoming Firefox & Thunderbird Releases are no longer listed in the side bar. They are now on their own dedicated page under the Upcoming link in the header (just below the logo).

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Major Update Status

Thought I should let y’all know about the status of The Major Update, you know that wonderful (at least ideally it is) feature which is suppose to allow users to go from Fx 1.5.0.X to 2.0.0.X as an update. Well, I have no idea what is going on with this. Discussion on this feature seems to have disappeared from the Weekly Update meetings a couple weeks ago. When I was looking around on the mozillaZine forums I came across this humorous (but sadly true) post from the the-edmeister in the Update to v 2.0.0.2 does not work thread. This was…

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Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3???

A couple weeks ago during the Fx 3 2007/03/06 Update, it was mentioned that Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3 was being targeted for March 20th. Doesn’t look like that is going to happen. Actually, the 20th is really and odd date when you consider it falls on a Tuesday this month and that is the day Mozilla holds the Fx 3 status meetings. Further reviewing last weeks Fx 3 Status and the Gecko 1.9a3 Meeting notes I saw no mention of a release date. The only thing I did see was a couple patches, one of those was for the memory leak…

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Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 Due 03/20

Note: Fx 1.5.0.11/2.0.0.3 are security updates which include fixes for six major issues including the Password Manger Vulnerability bug.  As mentioned earlier today in the Weekly Update 2007-03-19 post, Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 RC’s were pushed out to users on the “Beta” (update) channel last week. Everything has gone well with these release thus far so Mozilla plans on making the final releases on Tuesday (03/20). They plan to go live with Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 around 4:00 PM Pacific (7:00 PM Eastern) which means this is when getfirefox.com will be updated to show the most recent version as the…

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Weekly Update 2007-03-19

Big news from today’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 – A release candidate (RC) was pushed out to users who were on the ‘Beta’ update channel last week. These users had downloaded a ‘Beta’ version of Firefox 2 in the past. The reports from these users have been good so far. So, if all goes as planned, Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 will be released tomorrow afternoon/evening (around 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern). Fx/TB 1.5.0.12 & Fx 2.0.0.4 – Development has begun and should know more about the release schedule by next week’s meeting. These will be the next…

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