We are getting ever so closer to the final release of Firefox 3 next month. On Friday, May 16th, the first Release Candidate milestone RC 1 was released for public preview. You can download Firefox 3.0RC1 here. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes News Source: Mozilla Developers News
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Mozilla Messaging has just released the first Alpha of Thunderbird 3.0 aka Shredder. This developmental release of Thunderbird can be downloaded here. News Source: David Ascher
New Get a Mac Commerical debuted tongiht on Fox during American Idol. PC writes a contry song about Vista… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCaypd2v2U]
A meeting of PC’s Living With Vista Group. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihd6yCJt1TM]
Brand new Get A Mac ad debuted this week. Once again, things just don’t work out the way PC had hoped for… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v063um-00cI]
Mozilla Messaging has just released the first Alpha of Thunderbird 3.0 aka Shredder. This developmental release of Thunderbird can be downloaded here. News Source: David Ascher
I am going to clarify this ahead of time as in the future you are going to be seeing the names “Minefield” and “Shredder” used quite a bit for this point on. Minefield refers to the trunk/developmental builds for Firefox 3. This is not to be confused with Gran Paradiso, which is the code name for Firefox 3. On Sunday I switched my update channel from Beta to Nightly so I could start getting and testing the latest nightly releases of Minefield instead of just using the Beta 5 release of Gran Paradiso. Now that I have y’all thoroughly confused,…
Back in December, it was announced Firefox 3 would be moving away from the traditional four-part numbering (ex Fx 2.0.0.*) to a three-part numbering (Fx 3.0.*). However at that time the numbering scheme was not yet supported on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). With RC of Firefox 3.0 (3.0Pre) coming available (on Minefield Trunk) AMO has made modifications to accept the new production version numbering. Firefox 2: 2.0 – 2.0.0.* Firefox 3: 3.0 – 3.0.* (Note: that with Firefox 3, it’s a three part version number) News Source: Basil’s Bodacious Blog
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: In Progress Code freeze: June 6 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 17 Final Release: June 24 Firefox 3 RC 1 QA starts: May 12 Release to beta channel: Final Release: Late May Gecko 1.9 RC 1 – No Report Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) – No Report TBird 2.0.0.14 – Status: RELEASED Major Bug: Bug 431819 – IMAP/POP/SMTP with SSL client auth, Thunderbird repeatedly prompts for client certificate Reported: May 2 Confirmed: May 5 Assigned: May 10 TBird 2.0.0.15 – Currently working…
You will notice in several places I have this disclaimer/warning: WARNING! The Firefox Extension Guru is an independent beta-tester and is not affiliated with Mozilla Corporation. While most of these tips, tricks, suggestions, etc. are relatively simple to do, there is still a risk of damaging your profile. Therefore these are recommended for advanced Firefox users and should be attempted at your own risk! Please! Consider backing-up your profile or creating a new profile before doing any testing or experimenting. There is good reason for this as I am about to explain with my Adventure in Safe Mode today. I have spent most…