July 2008

Weekly Update 2008-07-07

FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: Released July 1st Fx 2.0.0.16 – Status: Pending Beta Channel Release Will be released same day as Firefox 3.0.1 Current Schedule Code freeze: July 1 Builds start: July 2 QA starts: July 3 Release to beta channel: July 8 Final Release: July 15 Fx 3.0.1 – Status: Pending Beta Channel Release Will be released same day as Firefox 2.0.0.16 Current Schedule Code freeze: June 30th Bake time: July 1st Builds start: July 2nd QA starts: July 3rd Release to beta channel: July 8th Final Release: July 15 Fx 3.1a1 – Status: In Development Current Schedule…

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Releases Recap: July Week 1

Firefox 2.0.0.15 – Released on July 1st Firefox 2.0.0.16 – Should be pushed out to Beta channel this coming week with a release on July 15th Firefox 3.0.1 – Also to be pushed out to Beta channel this coming week with an estimated release on July 15th Firefox 3.1 – Preliminary draft released in early June. No other information (build or scheduling) since then. Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 – Abandoned due to the upcoming Firefox 2.0.0.16 release. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 – Version bump to keep in line with newest Firefox 2.0.0.X upcoming release. Contingent on the release of Firefox 2.0.0.16. Builds should start…

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The Book of Mozilla

The Book of Mozilla is a series of ‘Easter eggs’ found in various versions of the Camino, Firefox, Flock, Netscape and SeaMonkey browsers. To activate simply type about:mozilla in the address bar. There are several biblical like ‘verses’ written by various Netscape/Mozilla engineers/programmers and which one you will see will depends on which browser and version you are using. Note: Mammon refers to Microsoft Internet Explorer. The passage numbers are in reference to historical dates with Netscape/Mozilla. In Firefox 3 you will see: Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they…

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Firefox 3: A World Record

It’s official, The Firefox 3 Download Day has made into Guinness Book of World Records. The record: The most software downloaded in 24 hours. Mozilla’s goal was 5-million downloads in the first 24-hours. On June 17, 2008 from 18:16 UTC (10:16 AM PDT) to June 18, 2008 18:16 UTC (10:16 AM)… 8,002,530 Firefox 3 Downloads News Source: Mozilla Links

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Firefox 2.0.0.15 Released

Firefox 2.0.0.15 a security update has been released.  See Firefox 2.0.0.15 Release Notes for more details. Users may obtain Firefox 2.0.0.15 manually via the Check for Updates… option from the Help menu. Automatic upgrade (for those who have this feature enabled) should occur within the next 24-48 hours. Alternatively, users may also download Firefox 2.0.0.15 directly by going to http://getfirefox.com. News Source: Mozilla Developers News

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