February 12, 2007

Weekly Update 2007-02-12

News from today’s Mozilla Weekly Update meeting: Fx 1.5.0.10 & 2.0.0.2 – RC1 builds out last Friday (02/09). So far so good, but there are some IE7 migration bugs. Release date pushed back to 02/21/07 due to President’s Holiday Gecko 1.9a2 – Around 32,000 download since release last Wednesday (02/07) Thunderbird 2.0 – Code freeze set for 02/27 News Source: Mozilla WeeklyUpdates Permalink

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Fx Add-ons Overhaul Pt 2

[Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 3.5][Part 4][Part 4.5] As I mentioned Saturday, Mozilla is overhauling the Firefox Add-ons site. Earlier today Mozilla had made available a preview of the new and (not) improved Firefox Add-ons site. Besides removing a huge chunk of add-ons such as Clear Cache Button, CacheViewer, SeachLoad Options, Stylish, CoLT, Infolister, Linky, AJAX Yahoo! Mail, DisableBackspaceNavigation, Restarter, Smiley Xtra, Spellbound, Splash, Stop Autoplay, TinyURL Creator, Update Channel Changer and WeatherBug to name a few, I’ve noticed these changes thus far: URL format for the extensions has changed because of the multi-language support (English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, French…

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