ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.0.1 open bugs & fixed bugs Code freeze Jan 26 FIREFOX Fx 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update – Status: Released Released on January 8th Fx 3.0.6 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm) Does not move out final ship date of February 3 Currently 19 approved patches that need landing. Please land your patches. Schedule (Estimated) Tree opens: December 5 Code freeze: January 7 11:59pm QA (Part 1) starts: January 7, 2009 Builds start: January 19, 2009 QA (Part 2) starts: January 20, 2009 Release to beta channel:…
January 2009
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Back in September, I reviewed the add-on Tabs Open Relative, which had suddenly become very popular with the release of Google Chrome. The current tab behavior in Firefox is for a new (child) tab opened via a link to do so at the end of the tab bar. However both Chrome and IE8 (Beta) will open the child tab to the right of the current tab (or other child tab). New tabs opened via the new tab button, file menu or control+T will still open at the end of the tab bar. This new behavior will be included in the…
Just Released Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 – December 30th MU Fx 2.0.0.19 >> 3.0.5 – January 8th Schedule this Coming Week No release scheduled for the remainder of 2008 Future Release AMO 4.0.5 – February 2009 Firefox 3.0.6 – February 3rd, 2009 Firefox 3.1b3 – January 31st, 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.20 – March 2009 Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b2 – TBA
Mozilla has released the last Major Update for Firefox 2 on January 8th. Current Firefox 2.0.0.20 users will be offered a direct upgrade to Firefox 3.0.5. As a reminder Firefox 2 is no longer supported by Mozilla and also no longer has Anti-Phising protection. Users wishing to manually go to Firefox 3 may do so by downloading the current version of Firefox 3.
Firefox started crashing again when I went into WordPress ‘Visual Mode’ when composing a new post. This led me to believe that AdBlock Plus may not be the trouble. I had to end up removing AdBlock Plus add-on as well as the Adblock Plus folder within my profile folder. I thought it may had been Google Gears so I uninstalled the application and add-on from my system completely. I reinstalled AdBlock Plus, restarted Firefox and then went to load the EasyElement filter set and discovered I could not find this filter set. On EasyList was this note: List formerly known…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.5 – Status: In Process open bugs & fixed bugs Freeze – Dec 22nd FIREFOX Fx 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update – Status: Pending Release Went to beta users last Monday Localizers are currently working to get the new banner translated (36 done, 8 remain!) Final release date a moving target, but aiming for late this week or early next Fx 3.0.6 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm) Does not move out final ship date of February 3 Currently 19 approved patches that need landing. Please land…
October 2008 Three new Get A Mac ads: Bake Sale – PC finds a creative way to get money to fix Vista’s problems. Bean Counter – Who says you can’t fix a problem by throwing money at it? V-Word – There’s a new naughty word and it begins with ‘V’ Just when you thought it was over the Microsoft-Yahoo merger, take over or whatever it is…any way it is back in the news. The American Technology Research indicated that it is “increasingly likely” that Microsoft would make another bid for Yahoo. Meanwhile a Yahoo investor urges Yahoo to sell itself…