As they did with the release of Firefox 2, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Team shipped a cake to the Mozilla Headquarters on the release day of Firefox 3. The ‘e’ piece of cake on the right is from the Firefox 2 cake back in October 2006 and has been sitting in a freezer for the past couple years. New Source: Mozilla Links
June 2008
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About an hour ago (10:00 AM PDT/17:00 UTC), after more than 18 months since the first Alpha (December 8th, 2006) was released and nearly 3-years in development Firefox 3 has been released. However, chances are you won’t be able to get it without a bit of wait. Mozilla wanted to get it the Guinness Book of Records for the most downloads within a 24-hour period. As a result all of Mozilla’s servers are overloaded. Earlier it was taking several attempts just to connect to getfirefox.com, however now users are getting a Http/1.1 Service Unavailable error when attempting to connect. When…
FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: Pending Release to Beta Channel Awaiting a couple more patches to land before moving to code freeze Current Schedule Code freeze: June 9 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 18 Final Release: June 24 Fx 3.0 – Status: Awaiting Release RC3 released on June 11th Current Schedule Code freeze: Builds start: QA starts: Release to beta channel: Final Release: June 17 Gecko 1.9.1 – Status: In Progress Currently tracking 11 blockers for Gecko 1.9.1 45 wanted for 1.9.1 bugs. THUNDERBIRD/LIGHTNING Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) – No Report TBird 1.5.0.14…
AMO (addons.mozilla.org) 3.4.3 – An updated version of AMO with improved (Advanced) search capabilities was released on June 12th. Firefox 2.0.0.15 – Still (tentatively) scheduled for June 24th. Firefox 3.0RC3 – Released on June 11th to fix a showstopper bug with the Mac OS X builds. Firefox 3 Final – Coming this Tuesday, June 17th! Firefox 3.1 – Preliminary draft released this past week. First Alpha due out in mid July with final release by year end. Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 MU – A major update to pull users off the unstable and insecure TB 1.5.0.14 build on to the current TB…
Looking over the What’s Next For Firefox? post I noticed I left out information about the corresponding Gecko versions. So here is a break down of the different versions of Firefox and their associated versions of Gecko. Firefox 1.0.X – Gecko 1.7 Firefox 1.5.0.X – Gecko 1.8 Firefox 2.0.0.X – Gecko 1.8.1 Firefox 3.0.X – Gecko 1.9 Firefox 3.1.X – Gecko 1.9.1 Firefox 4.0.X – Gecko 2.0
With the announcement that Firefox 3 is going to release next Tuesday, June 17th, what’s next? Firefox 3.1 coded named Shiretoko after the national park in Japan. Shiretoko National Park It is important to understand that this is going to be the next major version of Firefox 3. Regular usability & security updates will follow the 3.0.X numbering scheme. Mostly what is planned for Firefox 3.1 are features that did not make into the final Firefox 3 (note: this list is subject to change especially items marked with an asterisk *): Visual tab switching* tab searching/filtering* bulk tagging bookmarks* tag…
After over 5 1/2 months the Microsoft/Yahoo saga has finally come to an end. In a press release from June 12th Yahoo announced: Yahoo! Inc. … today announced that discussions with Microsoft regarding a potential transaction — whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo! or a partial acquisition — have concluded. The conclusion of discussions follows numerous meetings and conversations with Microsoft regarding a number of transaction alternatives, including a meeting between Yahoo! and Microsoft on June 8th in which Chairman Roy Bostock and other independent Board members from Yahoo! participated. At that meeting, Microsoft representatives stated unequivocally that…
With the news of Firefox 3 RC3 being released earlier today also comes the news of a final release date for Firefox 3. The wining date is: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 News Source: Mozilla Developer’s News
Due to the showstopper bug on the Mac OS X RC2 builds, a third Release Candidate was released on Wednesday, June 11th. Mac OS X (Windows & Linux do not need to update to RC3) users can download Firefox 3.0RC3 here. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 Release Notes
Due to showstopper bug #436575 there will be a 3rd Release Candidate for Firefox 3. This bug which affects only Mac users causes Mozilla applications experience unkillable hangs after installing Mac OS X 10.5.3. Apparently the underlying issue is on Apple’s side, but the Mozilla developers have come out with a work around/patch to fix this issue. Affected Mozilla applications include: Camino Firefox 2.0.0.14 Firefox 3 RC2 Songbird Thunderbird While there will be an RC3 for Windows and Linux builds as well, it is only a version bump, no actual updates will come with RC3. Only Mac builds will have…