Very shortly the first Major Update to Firefox 3 should start rolling out. Like any other update users should get notification within the next 24-48 hours. What it sooner? Go to Help, Check for Updates. Users will be presented with a screen similar this: Click for full-size Keep in mind this updates is optional and you are presented with three choices: select Later if you don’t want to decide now; Firefox will ask again in 24 hours select Never if you don’t want to accept this upgrade offer; we might send you another offer again in the future, but it…
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As mentioned in today’s Weekly Update Meeting, there is newly revised TBird 3 Milestone Schedule. The most noticeable about this new schedule is that does not include the final milestone, the release and the code freeze for the last build does not occur until January 2009. I was kinda hoping to see TBird 3 be released around the same time as Fx 3.1 this December, but based on this schedule this is not going to happen. Here is the current TBird3 Milestone Schedule (subject to change): 3.0b1 String Freeze — September 2, 2008 3.0b1 Code Freeze — September 9, 2008…
FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 MU – Status: Releasing @ 7:00 PM PDT /10:00 PM EDT August 25th Major Update will allow current Fx 2.0.0.16 users to auto-update to Fx 3.0.1 Does NOT include ja-JP-mac builds (coming with Firefox 3.0.2) Current Schedule Final Release: August 25th Fx 2.0.0.17 & Fx 3.0.2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Schedule Code freeze: August 26th Builds start: August 27th QA starts: August 28th Release to beta channel: September 4th Final Release: September 11th Firefox 3.1a2 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1a2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Schedule Code freeze: August 26th Builds start: August 27th QA starts: August…
Just Released AMO 3.4.7 on August 21st Schedule this Week Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version. Major Update: Firefox 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 – August 25th 7:00 PM PDT / 10:00 PM EDT Future Release Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version. Firefox 2.0.0.17 – September 11th Firefox…
A minor update for addons.mozilla.org (AMO) was released on Thursday, August 21st. This update fixed a handful of bugs including: Bug 450356 – Not able to add selected add-ons to Facebook page. Bug 442100 – Phoenity Thunderbird theme listed as a Firefox theme. See the complete Bug Fix List. News Source: Basil’s Bodacious Blog
That’s right, for those of you (and there are many) that haven’t upgraded to Firefox 3 yet, because it is too much trouble will be offered an automatic upgrade as early as the evening of Monday, August 25th. According to the MozillaWiki: Releases, the Major Update for Firefox 2.0.0.16 to 3.0.1 is (at this time) scheduled to land around 7:00 PM PDT/10:00 PM EDT on Monday, August 25th. However, I have my doubts about this release date, only because it is very untypically of Mozilla to do a release on a Monday. Normally everything is prepped and loaded on to…
I’ve been seeing several forum members on Go Firefox! getting the error: Unexpected installation error -203 When attempting to install extensions and/or themes. In most cases these members have recently upgraded from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 on the same profile. This error message can be caused by either: security software, which may be preventing these files from being updated corrupted configuration files on your computer 99% of the time it is going to be caused by corrupted configuration files on your computer. To fix this problem follow these steps: Close Firefox Locate your Profile Folder Delete the following files…
FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 MU – Status: Pending Release Major Update will allow current Fx 2.0.0.16 users to auto-update to Fx 3.0.1 Current Schedule Final Release: End of August 2008 Fx 2.0.0.17 & Fx 3.0.2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze REVISED Schedule Code freeze: August 26th Builds start: August 27th QA starts: August 28th Release to beta channel: September 4th Final Release: September 11th Firefox 3.1a2 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1a2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Alpha 2 will be only released for EN-US Alpha 2 Code Freeze: Tuesday, August 19th THUNDERBIRD/LIGHTNING Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) – No Report TBird 2.0.0.17 – Status:…
Just Released Shredder (Thunderbird) 3.0a2 on August 12th Schedule this Week None Future Release Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version. Firefox 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 MU – August 2008 Firefox 2.0.0.17 – September 11th Firefox 2.0.0.17 > 3.0.2 MU – TBD Firefox 3.0.2 – September 11th Firefox 3.1a2 – August 2008 Firefox 3.1b1 – September 2008 Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 – TBD Shredder (Thunderbird) 3.0b1 – TBD
Turns out there is a much easier way to edit Thunderbird message tags. I was not even aware there was an option (albeit a little buried) until FreeJeff left this informative comment: You can configure tags to your heart’s content by simply going to Options > Display > Tags. Add, delete, edit title and/or color, whatever. About:config is completely unnecessary. Oh, so there is a ‘Tags’ option in the Display settings. Whoops, guess I should have looked thru the options menu first. Click for full-size Thanks for the info FreeJeff!