With Fx 3a7 Released, I wanted to give our readers a better idea as to where we were last year in regards to Firefox 2. It took some hunting through my blog, the CyberNet Blog and the Mozilla FTP Server to find the release dates of the milestones for Fx 2: Fx2 Release History (all dates are 2006): Alpha 1 – March 17th Alpha 2 – May 13th Alpha 3 – May 27th Beta 1 – August 29th Beta 2 – August 31st Release Candidate 1: September 26th Release Candidate 2: October 6th Release Candidate 3: October 16th FINAL: October…

Mozilla has released the next milestone on the Firefox 3 (Gran Paradiso) Builds, Alpha 7. Mostly ‘behind the scenes’ improvements. Percy at Mozilla Links has done a nice review: Firefox 3 Alpha 7 released. Next up is m8 (could be Alpha 8 or Beta 1) and that is due in mid September. At this rate it is looking doubtful we are going to see Firefox 3 released this year. I decided to take a look at the Mozilla FTP site to see where we were this time last year with Fx 2. Turns out at the end of August 2006,…

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Mozilla has just released Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, an update which fixes two security issues, which are detailed in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 section of the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories page. For more details see the Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 Release Notes. For those of you still using TBird 1.5 builds, TBird 1.5.0.13 should be released shortly. Source: mozillaZine

On Monday Mitchell posted the article Thunderbird — Differences in response to comments on her Email Call to Action post from last week about the Thunderbird’s Future. Mitchell points out that there seems to be a trend of folks moving away from desktop based e-mail clients (Outlook, Evolution, Thunderbird, etc): Web mail usage grows. Younger generations in particular use other techniques. There are many parts of the world where email is less common than in the US, Western Europe or Japan. For example, in parts of the world where Internet cafes are a major way of accessing the Internet desktop…