Don’t know much at this time other than Mozilla did not push out the expected Thunderbird 16 release today. I hopefully will get some more info later tonight or tomorrow.
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From the Firefox Add-ons Blog comes this alert: The problem is that the window load event handler that many add-ons depend on isn’t fired under some circumstances. So far it appears that this only happens when a popup window is opened, and only in cases where the domain in the new window is different from the one that opened the window. Since most add-on scripts rely on the load handler being called, many of them will not work in the newly opened popup window. There’s more information about this in bug 799348. Depending on the scale of this issue (how many…
Mozilla has released an update for Firefox on October 9, 2012 with Firefox 16 for desktop and Android users. There are several fixes and updates in this version. However, most notable for desktop users is improvements to JAVA Script related to incremental garbage collection. This should hep reduce (and possibly eliminate) the dreaded ‘unrepresentative script’ warning.Bill McCloskey wrote about this feature: The basic purpose of the garbage collector is to collect memory that JavaScript programs are no longer using. The space that is reclaimed can then be reused for new JavaScript objects. Garbage collections usually happen every five seconds or so. Prior to incremental GC landing,…
Just Released None Coming Soon October 9th Thunderbird ESR 10.0.8 Thunderbird 16 Thunderbird 17 Beta (17.0b1)* Thunderbird 18 Earlybird (18.0a2)* Future Releases November 20th Thunderbird ESR 10.0.9 Thunderbird ESR 17.0 Thunderbird 17 Thunderbird 18 Beta (18.0b1)* Thunderbird 19 Earlybird (19.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.
Just Released None Coming Soon October 9th Firefox 16.0 Firefox for Android 16 Firefox 10.0.8 ESR Firefox 17 Beta (17.0b1)* Firefox 18 Aurora (18.0a2)* Future Releases November 20th Firefox 17.0 Firefox for Android 17 Firefox 10.0.9 ESR Firefox 17.0 ESR Firefox 18 Beta (17.0b1)* Firefox 19 Aurora (18.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.
“…Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird [link] is a new extension for the email client by Florian Queze, one of the developers of Instantbird, that adds several new chat protocols to the email client. The extension adds support for the following instant messaging protocols on top of what Thunderbird is supporting by default: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, MSN, MySpaceIM, Netsoul, SIMPLE, Sametime and Yahoo. The add-on uses the Pidgin library for the functionality…“Select the account that you want to add to the email client, click on next and follow the wizard guiding you through the configuration of the chat account….”…
Mozilla Firefox has supported Mac OS X 10.5 for the last 5-years. This comes to an end with the upcoming Firefox 16 release (scheduled for October 9th). This will be the final release to support Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). via Mozilla Future Releases
“…Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird … is a new extension for the email client by Florian Queze, one of the developers of Instantbird, that adds several new chat protocols to the email client. The extension adds support for the following instant messaging protocols on top of what Thunderbird is supporting by default: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, MSN, MySpaceIM, Netsoul, SIMPLE, Sametime and Yahoo. The add-on uses the Pidgin library for the functionality…“Select the account that you want to add to the email client, click on next and follow the wizard guiding you through the configuration of the chat account….”…
Given the six-week schedule for Firefox/Thunderbird releases, Firefox 17 is scheduled for release on November 20th. Six weeks from that date would have put Firefox 18 release date on January 1st, 2013. In the past things usually slow down with Mozilla from around Thanksgiving to New Years and especially during the week between Christmas and New Years. Mozilla has announced they are going to extend the support cycle for Firefox 17 to 7-weeks and likely will release Firefox 18 towards the ‘middle’ (January 9thish) of the week of January 6th, 2013. The schedule will return to every six-weeks again with Firefox…
Recently a member over at Go Firefox! had an odd and annoying issue where as each time they opened a new window in Firefox, the Error Console window would pop-up. The Error Console (under Developer Tools on the Firefox Button/Menu) normally just sits quietly in the background and collects errors that have occurred when visiting sites. Useful for troubleshooting a misbehaving website. My first thought was may be they were accidentally hitting the keyboard short-cut for the Error Console when doing the keyboard short-cut for new window. However, while the keys are fairly close together, new windows is CTRL+N and Error Console is CTRL+SHIFT+J. Next thought was add-ons. Sure…