February 4, 2008

Week Update 2008-02-04

Reminder: Due to the scheduled meeting time and my work schedule, I am not be able to get the meeting notes posted until the following Tuesday. Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.12 Release Schedule Updated: QA Testing: Tuesday, January 29 Code Freeze: Friday, January 25 Beta Channel Release (RC4): Monday, February 4 Scheduled to Release: No later than Friday, February 8 Gecko 1.9 Beta 3 – No Report Firefox 3 Beta 3 Spent the past week polishing up beta 3 over 1100 bugs closed between beta 2 and beta 3 — way to go, team! new…

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FoxyTunes Acquired

And No, It Was Not By Google! It was announced earlier today FoxyTunes, the very popular media player toolbar/extension for Firefox & Thunderbird and music service has been acquired by Yahoo! Music. From the FoxyTunes Blog:  “We’ve been talking to the Yahoo! Music team about deepening our cooperation, and we quickly discovered that not only do they understand and appreciate what we’ve done with FoxyTunes, but they also share our vision of Universality and Openness” Not really too sure what this is going to mean for future development of the extension.  Further seems kinda odd that Yahoo! would acquire a…

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