February 1, 2012

The Future of Thunderbird: Thunderbird 3.1, 10.0, ESR and beyond

There has been a lot happening this week with Thunderbird and a result a lot of activity on this blog recently. Here is a brief summary of what has happened so far:     Thunderbird 3.1.18 Released     Thunderbird 10.0 Released     Thunderbird ESR (10.0.0) Released     Thunderbird 3.1.x support ending April 24, 2012     Mozilla-Central (Firefox Nightly) Channel moving to MSVC2010 / No more support for Windows 2000 or Windows XP RTM/SP1 (Firefox 13+) As promised, more information on the Thunderbird ESR. Thunderbird ESR was created to address concerns with the current Rapid Release Process by Enterprise Users. The first…

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Future of Firefox: Firefox 3.6, 10.0, ESR and beyond

There has been a lot happening this week with Firefox and a result a lot of activity on this blog recently. Here is a brief summary of what has happened so far: Firefox 3.6.26 Released Firefox 10.0 Desktop and Android Released Firefox ESR (10.0.0) Released Firefox 3.6.x support ending April 24, 2012 Mozilla-Central (Nightly) Channel moving to MSVC2010 / No more support for Windows 2000 or Windows XP (RTM and SP1) (Firefox 13+) As promised, more information on the Firefox ESR. Firefox ESR was created to address concerns with the current Rapid Release Process by Enterprise Users. The first Firefox…

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Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools

     Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without having to leave Firefox. This means they can quickly navigate between page elements and view the HTML document structure for the page. Style Inspector makes editing the style of websites even easier. Now developers have quick access to CSS properties and can view or change values for their website within Firefox. Scratchpad now uses the Eclipse Orion code editor to provide syntax highlighting and other…

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Update: Windows 2000/XP SP1 Support Ending

Back in July we wrote that support for Windows 2000 and XP SP1 would be ending with the Firefox 8 release (November 8, 2011) due to Mozilla moving to C++ 2010 compiler. Firefox 10 was released on January 31st and still supports Windows 2000 as well as all versions of Windows XP. Bug 563318 (switch trunk builds to use Visual C++ 2010) has had landed on the Firefox 13 Nightly builds (has been temporarily backed out to address some crash issues). So those who are wanting to use the Firefox 13 Nightly builds will need to be running Windows XP…

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