At today’s Firefox 3 Status meeting, it was announced there would be a second release candidate (RC) in early June. Here’s the scoop from Mozilla Links: RC2 will fix about a couple of dozen bugs including some top crashers, some affecting performance and localization related. Most of the bugs already have patches waiting for review or landing and the revised code is expected for tomorrow, with initial builds available on Thursday. QA will start the same day and last for about a week. Look for Firefox 3 RC 2 to be released on/around Friday, June 6th.
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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
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