Firefox 2.0.0.15 – Released on July 1st Firefox 2.0.0.16 – Should be pushed out to Beta channel this coming week with a release on July 15th Firefox 3.0.1 – Also to be pushed out to Beta channel this coming week with an estimated release on July 15th Firefox 3.1 – Preliminary draft released in early June. No other information (build or scheduling) since then. Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 – Abandoned due to the upcoming Firefox 2.0.0.16 release. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 – Version bump to keep in line with newest Firefox 2.0.0.X upcoming release. Contingent on the release of Firefox 2.0.0.16. Builds should start…
Legacy
The Book of Mozilla is a series of ‘Easter eggs’ found in various versions of the Camino, Firefox, Flock, Netscape and SeaMonkey browsers. To activate simply type about:mozilla in the address bar. There are several biblical like ‘verses’ written by various Netscape/Mozilla engineers/programmers and which one you will see will depends on which browser and version you are using. Note: Mammon refers to Microsoft Internet Explorer. The passage numbers are in reference to historical dates with Netscape/Mozilla. In Firefox 3 you will see: Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they…
It’s official, The Firefox 3 Download Day has made into Guinness Book of World Records. The record: The most software downloaded in 24 hours. Mozilla’s goal was 5-million downloads in the first 24-hours. On June 17, 2008 from 18:16 UTC (10:16 AM PDT) to June 18, 2008 18:16 UTC (10:16 AM)… 8,002,530 Firefox 3 Downloads News Source: Mozilla Links
Happy July 4th From The Guru
Firefox 2.0.0.15 a security update has been released. See Firefox 2.0.0.15 Release Notes for more details. Users may obtain Firefox 2.0.0.15 manually via the Check for Updates… option from the Help menu. Automatic upgrade (for those who have this feature enabled) should occur within the next 24-48 hours. Alternatively, users may also download Firefox 2.0.0.15 directly by going to http://getfirefox.com. News Source: Mozilla Developers News
Today’s Weekly Update Meeting had a lot of news about the upcoming Firefox and TBird releases for next month. First off, Firefox 2.0.0.15 is still on schedule to be released tomorrow (July 1st) around 3:00 PM PDT/6:00 PM EDT. Now, in two weeks (July 15th) there will be yet another Firefox 2.0.0.X branch release. This time around is Firefox 2.0.0.16. Really don’t have details as to what is being included in the 2.0.0.16 release just know the code freeze is tomorrow. TBird 2.0.0.15 was planned to come out about a week or two after the Firefox 2.0.0.15 release, but has…
Today’s Weekly Update Meeting had a lot of news about the upcoming Firefox and TBird releases for next month. First off, Firefox 2.0.0.15 is still on schedule to be released tomorrow (July 1st) around 3:00 PM PDT/6:00 PM EDT. Now, in two weeks (July 15th) there will be yet another Firefox 2.0.0.X branch release. This time around is Firefox 2.0.0.16. Really don’t have details as to what is being included in the 2.0.0.16 release just know the code freeze is tomorrow. TBird 2.0.0.15 was planned to come out about a week or two after the Firefox 2.0.0.15 release, but has…
FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: Pending Release On track for release on July 1st around 3:00 PM PDT Current Schedule Code freeze: June 9 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 18 Respin code freeze: June 20 Builds start: June 23 QA starts: June 23 Release to beta channel: June 25 Final Release: July 1 Fx 2.0.0.16 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Current Schedule Code freeze: July 1 Builds start: July 2 QA starts: July 3 Release to beta channel: July 8 Final Release: July 15 Fx 3.0.1 – Status: Triage Current Schedule Code…
Firefox 2.0.0.15 – This is scheduled for release either on July 1st or 2nd. Should have a more finite date after Monday’s Weekly Update Meeting. Firefox 3.0.1 – No official time frame yet, but likely sometime in August. Firefox 3.1 – Preliminary draft released in early June. First Alpha due out in mid July with final release by year end. Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 – Contingent on the release of Firefox 2.0.0.15. If the Firefox release goes well look for Thunderbird release around July 15 or 16th. Schedule Thunderbird 3.0a2 – Tentatively scheduled for release sometime towards the end of July. Code…
To move your Firefox dictionary to another profile (works for all versions of Firefox): Close Firefox (Firefox saves the dictionary file upon closing) Navigate to your old profile folder (Locate your profile folder) Copy the file persdict.dat Navigate to your new profile folder (Locate your profile folder) Paste and replace the persdict.dat file Restart Firefox