September 28, 2009

Firefox 3.6 about:support

A new feature now live on the Firefox 3.6 nightlies is about:support. This feature lists important information about your Firefox installation that will help support people help with problems you may have in the future. This provides a lot of similar information that the InfoLister extension provided. However, unlike InfoLister, a button allows you to copy all the information to the clipboard and paste to an email, forum, chat window, etc. Source: Mozilla Links

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Mozilla Project Weekly: September 28th, 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.1 launches this week Reviewed proposed review process on new editor call Chicago Meetup on Sept 29 at Threadless HQ! Get ready for Firefox 3.6! FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.15 on track for October 21 releases Firefox 3.5.4 on track for October 21 releases Namoroka (Firefox 3.6) The new Troubleshooting Information (about:support) page landed on trunk and branch (bug 367596) Lightweight theme support has landed (aka: native Personas) through presently the gallery at getpersonas.com doesn’t recognize the native client support we have 27 front end blockers to knock down, 7 of which to complete before beta a beta schedule…

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Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 4 Released

Mozilla Messaging released Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 on September 22nd. Again, not much news about this major milestone release. This week’s Mozilla Project Status Meeting did mention Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 had shipped. Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. There are over 200 changes in this release, many laying the groundwork for future changes. Some notable changes include: New Search with Advanced Filtering Tools New Global Search Field with Autocomplete New Mail Account Setup Wizard Redesigned Mail Toolbar Tabbed Email Messages Smart Folders New Message Summary View Column Headings Message Archive Activity Manager New Add-ons Manager Improved…

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