Presently with Firefox, the only ‘zoom’ (CTRL + +) increases the text-size only.  The original Mozilla Suite (now The SeaMonkey Project) and Opera have a page zoom, that is where the entire page (text, objects and pictures) are zoomed.  This was filed as bug 4821 back on April 8, 1999 and on July 25th, 2007 it was finally marked as RESOLVED FIXED. Now before you get all excited, it is not quite done yet.  The backend functionality is done which is why the bug status has been changed to  RESOLVED FIXED.  However, there is currently not a way to call…

See: Thunderbird’s Future for background info. Currently, Mitchell (Baker) has made some additional posts in Mitchell’s Blog in response to the comments left on her Email Call to Action from July 25th. Some of the ‘themes’ she is has/going to respond to include: Google is involved somehow Thunderbird and the Mozilla mission Feature thoughts about Thunderbird Why can’t Thunderbird and Firefox both prosper inside the Mozilla Corporation? Is Mozilla exclusively focused on Firefox? Revenue is the determining factor. I will update this post when she posts on ‘themes’ 5 and 6, plus any additional she may add.

Granted I don’t talk as much about Thunderbird in here as I do Firefox. Part of that is because their isn’t as much news or anything to talk about with Thunderbird. On Wednesday Mozilla’s, Chief Lizard Wrangler (CEO) Mitchell Baker posted in her blog that Mozilla has come to a point where they to decided what they want to do with Thunderbird. “We have concluded that we should find a new, separate organizational setting for Thunderbird; one that allows the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny.” Mozilla has come up with three possible options: Option 1. Create a new…

The other day sim asked on the Weekly Update 2007-07-23 post “what’s content handling”.  This was in reference to the report that “content-handling is not going to make Fx3”. So what is content-handling? It is a neat feature that would let you setup Firefox on what to do when it came across certain types of content. Technically, this feature already exists if you go under Tools, Options.., Content tab and then under File Types click Manage… However with Firefox 3, it was more of a user-interface (UI) type change. The blog article, Fx 3 User Interface (UI) Redo shows an…

If you have ever thought about building a Fx Extension, here is a comprehensive guide that can help you not just build an extension, but one that will get used.  The Developing a Firefox Extension That People Actually Use: 32 Essential Tools and Tutorials is very informative (but not overwhelming) with most of the steps containing external links.  The opening paragraph sums it up well.. Over the past few years, Mozilla Firefox has dramatically increased in popularity, largely because of its ability to incorporate extensions. The extensions developed for Firefox range from simple calculators to complete application replacement, and their…

From Mozilla Developer News: If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu starting later today. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 Release Notes. The security vulnerabilities addressed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 do not affect Thunderbird 1.5.0.x users, therefore, there is no update required for Thunderbird 1.5.0.x series users.

The social networking site, Facebook has bought Parakey for an undisclosed amount. For those of you not familiar with Parakey it was the joint venture project by Firefox Founders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, see The Firefox Kid for more about Parakey. I was not too sure what to make of this at first. This has been an ongoing project for Ross & Hewitt for quite some time. But as I read further into the article this isn’t one of those ‘buy-out’ type of acquisitions where everything is sold and the original party just walks away from the project (but…