Welcome to the first Weekly Update for the month of April. There’s lots of exciting news from today’s meeting: Fx 1.5.0.11/2.0.0.3 Partner Builds – Includes Yahoo, Kodak, Fujitsu-Siemens, Packard Bell, Google, Seznamd and T-Online nearing completion to already delivered. Major Update (Fx 1.5.0.11 -> 2.0.03) – testing is to start this week TB 2.0 RC1 – Coming Soon, possibly by the end of the week Fx3 – Updated Milestone Schedule: Alpha 4 end of April, Alpha 5 end of May, Alpha 6 end of June, Beta 1 end of July and Beta 2 end of September 2007. Earlier today I…
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Twelve-week-old red panda cubs Tenzin (held by zookeeper Lisa Abra at left) and Jishnu (held by Bobby-Jo Vial at right) are displayed to the media at Taranga Zoo on Wednesday. The term fire-fox, as used to describe the Red Panda, has been propagated by its use as the logo for the web browser Mozilla Firefox. The old Chinese designation of Red Panda as “fire fox“ refers to the Red Panda’s fur color, but its new firefox sanction as “the godfather of the browsers“ has caught on in China. – Wikipedia SYDNEY, Australia – Twin red pandas made their public debut…
Are you in an area where getting Broadband (or any) Internet service is a pain? Stuck with one provider who rates are going up faster than the price of a gallon of gasoline? You can get free, yes free Broadband Internet Service from Goggle. Best of all you need is a toilet. Here is the press-release on the new Google TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) Service (Beta): Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service “Dark porcelain” project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP…
Back on April 1, 2004, Google introduced their own web based e-mail service as an beta by invitation only service. Many folks thought it would never take off, but earlier this year, it was announced: Gmail open to all… Now, to celebrate their three-year birthday GMail is proud to introduce Gmail Paper (Beta): Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you asked for it, and it’s here. We’re bringing it back. A New Button Now in Gmail, you can request a physical copy of…
It has been a little over six-months since we posted about Airbag (Airbag coming soon to Mozilla Applications) which was suppose to replace Talkback. Airbag wasn’t implemented in Fx 2 and until the Alpha 3 release wasn’t in Gran Paradiso (Fx 3) either. The crash reporting tool formerly known as Airbag is now called breakpad (no, not brakepad) and is still in development. Look for a fully developed version in the final release of Firefox 3 later this summer (or fall). News Source: Mozilla Links
Robert Scoble interviews Mozilla CEO, better known as Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mitchell Baker. Note: Interview is about 40 minutes long! [podtech content=http://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/03/PID_010717/Podtech_Mozilla_Baker_interview.flv&postURL=http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/2552/inside-mozilla-foundation-the-folks-who-bring-us-firefox&totalTime=2414000&breadcrumb=CRparent.1175034630.53]
I had mentioned in New AOM & The Sandbox some of the pre-existing add-ons (such as Resizeable Textarea) had been in placed in the sandbox. This was causing users to get an “Add-on not found!” message when they tried to follow a link to an existing add-on that was in the sandbox. Based on user feedback this has changed: All add-ons that were public in AMO prior to Remora’s launch this weekend should now be publicly available on AMO again. News Source: Mozilla Webdev
Some interesting developments in today’s Weekly Update meeting. As most folks know, Fx 1.5.0.11 and 2.0.0.3 were released last week on Tuesday, March 20th. Now, the next phase is going to be Fx/TB 1.5.0.12 and Fx 2.0.0.4: Release scheduled to be released tentatively around May 15 (tue), taking into consideration All-Hands, Major Updates release, and Tbird 2 release, and a beta release. Shooting for a 4/20 code freeze. Now, that tentative release date is very interesting…recall Mozilla had announced (and is still “warning” users) that Fx 1.5 will only be maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007….
It seems there are still load balancing issues with the new AOM site which is why it here one moment and gone the next. As of this posting, the new AOM site is up and running. They have also pulled a mass amount of add-ons out of the Sandbox. The Sandbox is where add-ons start their life and where they will remain until they have been tested and found worthy to be placed on the public side. For a more detailed explanation of the Sandbox see Claus Valca comment on the post AOM (was) Launched So, if you follow a…
Ever find the textarea in a forum, online form, or wherever is too small or even too large for your needs. The Resizeable Textarea extension allows you to resize some textareas. Doesn’t seem to work for all textareas (especially with Rich-Text editors) but this is a small enough add-on (4 KB) that you might as well add it to your collection anyway. If a textarea is resizeable the mouse pointer will change to the double-arrows when you hover over the bottom right corner of the textarea. Resizeable Textarea works with Fx 1.0-2.0.0.* ALL and is about 4 KB (no user…