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First off, a Happy Thanksgiving from The Guru. This long weekend also marks the start of The Blog Year in Review 2008. Going to do this a little different this year as for formatting. Instead of doing 1-month per post as in the past, I am going to try and do 3-months per post. Here is a tentative release schedule (much like that of Firefox 2, 3 and 3.1 or that of any Mozilla project it is subject to change)… January, February and March – November 30th April, May and June – December 13th July, August and September – December…
New Firefox 3.1 logos have been made available by the Mozilla Marketing team. News Source: Mozilla Developers News
On Tuesday, November 25th, the build for Firefox 3.1b2 was handed off to QA for testing. Normally this process takes about 7-days for QA to sign-off on the builds. However, because of the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday, the sign-off is not expect to happen until December 5th. So it looks as if we will have to wait a couple more weeks before Beta 2 is released. Good news is Mozilla is still target the final Firefox 3.1 release for 1st quarter 2009.
On Wednesday, December 3rd Tuesday, December 2nd, Mozilla is going to give Firefox 2.0.0.18 users another opportunity to move over to the new Firefox 3.0.4 via the Major Update. This update will not work with releases prior to 2.0.0.18, users will need to upgrade to the 2.0.0.18 release in order to get offered the Major Update. As a reminder with the expected release of Firefox 2.0.0.19 on December 16th, this will be the end of support and updates for Firefox 2.0.0.X product. Users are urged to upgrade (if their systems meet the requirements) to Firefox 3. There is expected to…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.3 – Status: Release November 17th AMO 4.0.4 – Status: In Process open bugs & fixed bugs Freeze – Dec 8th FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.18 -> 3.0.4 Major Update – Status: Release to Beta QA Tested major update for Firefox 2.0.0.18->3.0.4 [abillings, juanb] Schedule (Estimated) Code freeze: ? QA starts: ? Builds start: ? Release to beta channel: November 24th Final Release: December 3 Fx 2.0.0.19 & Fx 3.0.5/Gecko 1.8.1.19 & 1.9.0.5 -Status: Code Freeze Code frozen except one further patch Localization freeze for 3.0.5 is November 28 at 11:59pm PST Aiming for release on December 16 End…
Just Released Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 – November 19th Schedule this Coming Week MU Firefox 2.0.0.18 >> Firefox 3.0.4 – No Earlier than November 24th Firefox 3.1b2 – TBA Future Release AMO 4.0.4 – December 2008 Firefox 2.0.0.19 – December 16th *FINAL UPDATE* Firefox 3.0.5 – December 16th Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b1 – TBA
Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 was released on November 19th. Users will be prompted for an automatic update within the next 72 hours.Those wishing to upgrade now can do so via the Help Menu, Check For Updates option or by downloading the latest release at getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 contains many security fixes and the full details can be found in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 Release Notes.
Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 was released on November 19th. Users will be prompted for an automatic update within the next 72 hours.Those wishing to upgrade now can do so via the Help Menu, Check For Updates option or by downloading the latest release at getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 contains many security fixes and the full details can be found in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 Release Notes.
More emails have been released in the Vista Capable case this afternoon. Including more on the email exchanges between Microsoft’s Ballmer and Intel’s Otellini and the loosening of the ‘Vista Capable’ requirements. Microsoft senior vice president Will Poole e-mailed Ballmer: Steve, following up on the call you took from Paul today, we have changed our program so that Intel’s current integrated parts qualify for ‘Vista Capable’ branding … This change completely resolves their problem. Also released were some emails regarding Best Buy’s CEO wanting to talk to Ballmer about Vista-related issues. One Microsoft executive described Best Buy as “whining.” while…