Mozilla Labs will be pushing a second Beta for Thunderbird 6.0 on Tuesday, August 2nd. Bug fixes/patches included in this upcoming release include: The Aero Glass theme has been changed to try and make it easier to read. Bug 658534 (can’t collapse+expand folders).
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Just Released Firefox 6.0 Beta 3 – July 25, 2011 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 when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel…
…at least that was this survey of 100,000 people says from Vancouver, B.C.-based AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting. Source: Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog
There has been two updates to Lightning today, 1.0b5rc2 & 1.0b5rc3. These releases candidates addressed: Alarm window disappearing Misplaced beeps from the alarm system. Some calendars are no longer working (specifically, webcal:// calendars). Support for Thunderbird 5.0 and 6.0 The final release of 1.0b5 is expected in the next couple days and will have 10 bugfixes. For more information and to download the update click here. Lightning 1.0b4 will not work with Thunderbird 6.0 Beta, even if forced. However, the current RC builds of Lightning 1.0b5 do support Thunderbird 6.0 Beta and it appears will work the current Provider for…
Mozilla has announced plans for its own Mobile OS, Boot to Gecko or B2G for short. This is going to be somewhat based off the Android platform, but unlike the Android platform, B2G is going to be fully open source.The goal is to have apps which are not restricted to Android, iPhone or WP7 (Windows Phone 7) platforms and can run on a customizable and open source mobile OS. ….as Andreas Gal, a project member, explains: “At some point Android used to be at least available source where Google would publish secretly/internally developed source code/technology after the fact as products…
Mozilla has pushed out Beta 3 for Firefox 6 on the Beta channel. If you are already using Firefox 6 Beta 1 or 2 go to Help > About Firefox to update to Beta 3. 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.
At least that is what one person is purposing with Bug 661075. Flashbacks to Office 97 with Clippy come to mind (and ironically he/it is mentioned). I do like Comment 5 where the user feels Firefox is “a prosthetic limb that extends my reach onto the web.” I’ve heard browsers called a lot of things, but prosthetic limb is a new one.
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 6.0 Beta 3 – TBD 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 when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary…
Thunderbird 5, like Firefox 4 takes advantage of Windows Aero Glass effect on Vista and Windows 7. This results in a transparent menu bar, which some users find this transparency annoying. There are a couple ways to get around this. You can use a Persona or add these lines to your Thunderbird’s userChrome.css file: /*Removes Transparent Aero Theme Effect Windows Vista & 7 */ window, page, dialog, wizard, prefwindow { background-color: -moz-Dialog !important; } #toolbar-menubar { -moz-appearance: -moz-win-browsertabbar-toolbox !important; } “
Mozilla did an emergency update for Firefox 3.6 & 5.0 on July 11th. There was an automatic update for Mac user only. While Mozilla did also publish Firefox 3.6.19 and 5.0.1 to the FTP site as well as at getfirefox.com for Windows and Mac users, there is no difference between Firefox 3.6.18/3.6.19 or 5.0/5.0.1 for Linux and Windows users. Therefore, an automatic update was not pushed out for Windows and Linux users. If for whatever reason you would like to update to Firefox 3.6.19 or 5.0.1 and are using Windows or Linux, you will need to so manually via getfirefox.com…