If you been wanting to try out Thunderbird 2 but been waiting for all the major bugs to be squashed, that time has come. TBird 2.0 Release Candidate (RC) 1 was released yesterday. This is very close to the final product, there may be a few small lingering bugs but nothing major. You can download TBird 2.0 RC1 from Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Mozilla (note if you are on the ‘Beta’ Update Channel you will be/have been prompted to upgrade). News Source: mozillaZine
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Many saw the release of Firefox 2 last fall as a major step forward for new features and innovations with Firefox. A BBC News Article discusses some of the planned features in the upcoming Firefox 3 and Firefox 4 releases and how these are going to change the way we use the internet. The difference between online and offline, the web and the desktop will blur in the near future, Mozilla’s Mike Schroepfer has said. The vice-president of engineering at the home of the Firefox browser said small changes to the way the web works will have a big impact…
If you been wanting to try out Thunderbird 2 but been waiting for all the major bugs to be squashed, that time has come. TBird 2.0 Release Candidate (RC) 1 was released yesterday. This is very close to the final product, there may be a few small lingering bugs but nothing major. You can download TBird 2.0 RC1 from Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Mozilla (note if you are on the ‘Beta’ Update Channel you will be/have been prompted to upgrade). News Source: mozillaZine
The regularly scheduled weekly Firefox 3 Status meeting for this Tuesday (April 10th) was canceled due to the mozilla.com on-site meeting. The Fx3 Status meeting will resume next week (April 17th) as scheduled.
The meeting notes seem to be getting shorter by the week. But there were a couple of items of interest from today’s meeting: (Bug) Nominations for Fx/TB 1.5.0.12 & Fx 2.0.0.4 were due last Friday Major Update has some problems with left over files and search plugins after the update TBird 2.0 RC1 is now out. If you are on the Thunderbird “Beta” Update Channel you will be offered this release in the next day or so. Mozilla WeeklyUpdates
Market Share by Net Applications has put together various charts showing the Market Share Trends of the Top Browsers. There site has much greater break down of the market share percentages overall as well as monthly trends. Thanks to WhiteMare over at Go Firefox! for the tip.
Not really sure when this feature became live, but I just recently discovered the New Mail Notifier (slider) in TB 2.0 is now clickable. I discovered this by accident the other night when I got an e-mail while I was in Fx. Since I have Outhouse (Outlook) at work, out of habit I clicked on the slider when a message came in I wanted to view right away. Much to my surprise, doing this not only brought up TB but took me right to the message. I also realized, TB new mail notifier slider also works (has for a long…
I am really excited see this cool new feature in Fx 3 as it has been in OpenOffice.org for a while now! But, before I go into detail about what exactly are “Discontinuous Selections” I been meaning to follow-up on a feature I reported on early when Firefox 3.0a3 was Released. I found out more info (not good) about the “Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page” feature. Unfortunately, it was just as I suspected, those who have tried out this feature have quickly become annoyed and have ended up disabling it. There are too…
Today’s Firefox 3 Status meeting must have been fairly short, at least the notes were. There are now 19 (up 1 from last week) blockers (major bugs) for turning on bookmarks in Places. The only other item mentioned (which was also mentioned at yesterday’s Weekly Update meeting), is the updated Gran Paradiso (Fx 3) milestone schedule: Fx 3.0a1/Gecko 1.9a1 – RELEASED: December 8th (2006) Fx 3.0a2/Gecko 1.9a2 – RELEASED: February 7th Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3 – RELEASED: March 23rd Fx 3.0a4/Gecko 1.9a4 – End April 2007 Tentative Fx 3.0a5/Gecko 1.9a5 – End May 2007 Tentative Fx 3.0a6/Gecko 1.9a6 – End June…
I was looking at my blog stats last night and was noticing that they were a bit high (not that I am complaining) for a Sunday evening. Then I noticed my top referrer was wordpress.com. Well that is odd and at the same time interesting. So I clicked the link as was taken to the main WordPress.com page and there it was: Click For Larger Image The feature was on the Red Pandas in the News story. So it does looks like this did bring quite a bit of traffic to the Blog, but that could also be related to…