Mozilla has released the first Beta for the upcoming (August 16th) Thunderbird 6.0 on the Communications Beta Channel. For those who were running Thunderbird 5.0 Beta, you will be offered an update to the 6.0 Beta version. Otherwise you can get it here. What’s New in Thunderbird Beta The latest version of Thunderbird Beta has the following changes: Support for Windows 7 Jump lists Several fixes when importing email from Microsoft Outlook Default mail client check now works with newer Linux distributions Various other user interface fixes and improvements and numerous other bug fixes
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Just Released Firefox 3.6.19 (Mac Only Update) – July 11th Firefox 5.0.1 (Mac Only Update) – July 11th Firefox 6.0 Beta 2 – July 15th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.20 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Beta (7.0b1) – August 16th* Firefox 8 Aurora (8.0a2) – August 16th* Firefox 7 Final Release – September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release – September 27th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect…
Just Released Thunderbird 7 Earlybird – July 6th Coming Soon Thunderbird 3.1.12 – August 16th Thunderbird 6 Beta – To Be Announced Thunderbird 6 Final Release – August 16th Thunderbird 7 Beta – August 16th Thunderbird 8 Early Bird – August 16th Future Releases Thunderbird 7 Final Release – September 27th Thunderbird 8 Beta – September 27th Thunderbird 9 Early Bird – September 27th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days….
Mozilla has pushed out Beta 2 for Firefox 6 on the Beta channel. If you are already using Firefox 6 Beta 1 go to Help > About Firefox to update to Beta 2. Otherwise you may obtain Firefox 6.0b2 from the Future of Firefox page. Firefox 6.0 is scheduled for final release on August 16th, 2011.
Some progress to report on the future of Win64-Bit Firefox as reported on CNET News Deep Tech. Release engineer Armen Zambrano Gasparnian, who took early steps for 64-bit Firefox support last year, is on the case again. “We now have a small set of Windows 2008 64-bit slaves ready to be put in our production systems that can generate the 64-bit version of Mozilla Firefox,” he said in a blog post this week. He’s been filing bug reports as a result. Even better news is Adobe Labs has a Beta Release of Flash Player 11, which now supports Win64-Bit. However,…
I was able to get a hold of an unofficial Beta Release for Thunderbird 6 earlier today. I had no issues pasting via right-click into the link field on the link tab when inserting an image. So it appears this was a glitch within Thunderbird 5.0 only. As a reminder Thunderbird 6.0 will be released on August 16th.
I was alerted over in my Email Mafia Forum, that in Thunderbird 5.0 when you are adding an image it will not allow you to paste a link in the link filed on the link tab. After some testing I did confirm that you can not paste via right-click. However, you can click in to the field and do CTRL+V or SHIFT+INSERT to paste. What is really odd about this though, is the functionality works fine in Thunderbird 3.1.11 as well as Thunderbird 7.0a2 (Earlybird) and 8.0a1 (Daily). Unfortunately, since there are currently no builds out for Thunderbird 6 Beta,…
We incorrectly stated in the Thunderbird Merges Completed post that Thunderbird 6.0 Beta (6.0b1) was available. Currently there are no Beta builds (with the exception of Tinderbox Builds) for Thunderbird 6.0. Those who had been on the Beta channel with Thunderbird 5.0 were updated to the release version of Thunderbird 5.0. However, I am uncertain if and when the Beta builds for Thunderbird 6.0 are released if an update to Thunderbird 6.0 Beta will be presented. Should have more information in the next few days.
At the July 11th Weekly Update Meeting, it was announced that there is currently not a planned End of Life (EOL) for Firefox 3.6, at this time. Plans are to go ahead with the 3.6.20 release (was 3.6.19 which is now an emergency update for Mac users) on August 16th.There is planned EOL meeting sometime in August 2011.
Currently Mobile Firefox users can either use the most current version of Firefox or that in the Beta Channel. At the July 11th Weekly Status Meeting, there was discussion of opening an Aurora Channel for Firefox for Mobile.