August 27, 2007

Weekly Update 2007-08-27

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – Bug Triage TBird 2.0.0.7 – Triage on-going TBird 1.5.0.13 – Released on Thursday (8/23) TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No more major update until next cycle TBird 3 – No Report Fx3 – Ongoing daily smoke testing. Focus testing of new features such as Places, Download Manager, Search bugs. See new test plan for plug-ins manager. Gecko 1.9 – M8 Code Freeze on September 5th. Here what’s being worked 1.9 Blockers Only Prioritizing those blockers which are high complexity and may have unknowns causing longer time…

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Firefox Campus Edition

Mozilla has come out with another custom distribution of Firefox, this one is targeted to College students.  The Firefox Campus Edition is Fx 2.0.0.6 bundled with FoxyTunes, Stumbled Upon and Zotero extensions.   For those who are not familiar with these extensions, FoxyTunes allows users to control most software media players (Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Amarok, etc) right from the Fx browser; StumbleUpon is a social is a social networking site where people can share web sites they stumble upon and Zotero is a tool for both online and paper references collection that aids students and academics on researches. News…

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