ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 5.0.2 release last week: Fixed bugs Updated developer dashboards Extension permalinks (now developers can link directly to the latest version of an add-on) Enhanced anonymized stats tracking of logged-in vs logged-out users Compatibility update 79% of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1 Email to developers went out a little over a week ago, response has been positive but many are waiting for b3 before putting significant work into compatibility AMO Mascot/Logo by Sean Martell FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.7 Beta this Wednesday afternoon Release next Wednesday at 3pm if all goes well Firefox 3.0.8 Code freeze is March 17 at 11:59pm Release…
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Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b2 – February 24th, 2009 Future Release AMO 4.0.5 – February 2009 Firefox 3.0.7 – March 3rd, 2009 Firefox 3.0.8 – April 7th, 2009 Firefox 3.1b3 – March 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.21 – March 2009
A bit of major announcement in regards to Lightning (Calendar) and the upcoming Thunderbird 3. From David Ascher’s (CEO, Mozilla Messaging) Blog: For some time, we (the Thunderbird release-drivers) have been exploring how to best integrate calendar functionality into Thunderbird. Time for an update. The current plan is to work with the Lightning Add-on community to make a version of it available as an add-on to Thunderbird 3 after we ship later this year. This is a change from our initial plan of integrating all of Lightning into Thunderbird by default. While there are several reasons for this decision, these…
A bit of major announcement in regards to Lightning (Calendar) and the upcoming Thunderbird 3. From David Ascher’s (CEO, Mozilla Messaging) Blog: For some time, we (the Thunderbird release-drivers) have been exploring how to best integrate calendar functionality into Thunderbird. Time for an update. The current plan is to work with the Lightning Add-on community to make a version of it available as an add-on to Thunderbird 3 after we ship later this year. This is a change from our initial plan of integrating all of Lightning into Thunderbird by default. While there are several reasons for this decision, these…
A new mascot has joined the international Mozilla Family. Foxmosa, is the new mascot for Mozilla Taiwan (moztw.org). Foxmosa joins G-Fox (China) and Foxkeh (Japan). Source: Mozilla Links
No Weekly Update Meeting Today US President’s Day Holiday
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release AMO 4.0.5 – February 2009 Firefox 3.0.7 – March 3rd, 2009 Firefox 3.0.8 – April 7th, 2009 Firefox 3.1b3 – February 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.21 – March 2009 Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b2 – February 24th, 2009
I’ve done a quick update on the How To Remove Microsoft .NET Spyware Extension post with the addition of links to information concerning the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 add-on as well as about the KB951847 update.
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Compatibility update- 76.5% (by usage) of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1. When Firebug 1.4 gets released on AMO this month, compatibility will increase to 80.8% Mailing going out this week to top 500 add-on developers not on 3.1, if we can get 20% of these, we can hit 90-95% compatibility. AMO 5.0.2 Status: Pending Code freeze Code Freeze: Friday, February 13th FIREFOX Fx 3.0.6 – Status: Released Released: February 3 Had some server issues, which were fixed fairly quickly Held a post-mortem regarding 3.0.6 (bugs filed for issues) Fx 3.0.7 – Status: Code Freeze Mostly code froze on Tuesday…
Back around the end of January there was a Microsoft Windows Update (KB951847) that installed the SpyWare (done without user consent/knowledge and can not be removed easily) Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 extension into Firefox. Note: If you have not install Windows Update KB951847 OR not using Windows Update this extension will not be installed. Notice how the ‘Uninstall’ button is greyed out? I learned about this from a post )Microsoft Infiltrates Firefox) at GoFirefox! However, because I am using Shiretoko 3.1b3pre and the add-on was not compatible with this build it never fully installed. I was able to remove…