Back in July 2007, Mitchell Baker, then Mozilla Corporation’s CEO, announced a major change with Thunderbird’s Future. Now, nearly 7 months later, David Ascher has announced the official creation of Mozilla Messaging (has unofficially been called MailCo for the past few months). This is a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications. David explains the purpose and the goals of the new subsidiary, including future plans for Thunderbird 3: integrated calendaring (building on the great work done by the Mozilla Calendar team and their Lightning add-on to Thunderbird) better search facilities easier configuration and a…
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As of February 15th, the Firefox Extension Guru’s Discussion Forum has closed. Over the past couple months there has been a major decline in new activity (except the major increase in spam). The forum is no longer accessible, Not having to constantly ‘clean-up’ the discussion forum, will allow more time to put towards the blog.
In preparation for the upcoming Firefox 3, Addons.Mozilla.Org (AMO) is being redesigned and updated. The biggest change is a new ‘visual refresh’ and redesign of the layout. Below is a preview of the new AMO design via Mozilla Links: By default when you arrive at AMO it is setup to search for Firefox extensions. At the top right is an Other Applications button/menu which will allow you to choose from Thunderbird, SeaMonkey (former Mozilla Suite) and Sunbird (Mozilla’s calendar project). This simple integrating of these options into a single drop-down menu really makes a for cleaner look. Unlike the present…
Mozilla has released Beta 3 of Firefox 3. The next milestone will be the Beta 4. Don’t have any information at this time on a release date for this milestone or the final Firefox 3. Here is a look back at the Firefox 3 Milestones: Fx 3.0a1/Gecko 1.9a1 – December 8th, 2006 Fx 3.0a2/Gecko 1.9a2 – February 7th, 2007 Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3 – March 23rd, 2007 Fx 3.0a4/Gecko 1.9a4 – April 27th, 2007 Fx 3.0a5/Gecko 1.9a5 – June 6th, 2007 Fx 3.0a6/Gecko 1.9a6 – July 2nd, 2007 Fx 3.0a7/Gecko 1.9a7 – August 3rd, 2007 Fx 3.0a8/Gecko 1.9a8 – September 20th,…
Reminder: Due to the scheduled meeting time and my work schedule, I am not be able to get the meeting notes posted until the following Tuesday. Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.12 – Released: Thursday, February 7th Fx 2.0.0.13 Planning Meeting on Friday, February 15th Purposed Release Schedule: Code freeze: March 7 Builds start: March 10 QA starts: March 11 Release to beta channel: March 18 Final Release: March 25 Firefox 3 Beta 3 Expected Release: Tuesday, February 12th – Afternoon PST Firefox 3 Beta 4 16 P1s, 63 P2s Gecko 1.9 Beta 4 62 P1s,…
John Lilly the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation is interviewed on the February 7th The GigaOM Show. Find out what the organization has in store for 2008 and if they will file for IPO. John also explains his and Mitchell’s roles in Mozilla. Other topics discussed in this episode include: Microsoft makes hostile bid for Yahoo! MySpace opens developer platform The entire show is about 14 minutes and 30 seconds and the interview with John Lilly is a little over 8 minutes. John also give us his perspective about Microsoft hostile bid for Yahoo! Plus John discusses Thunderbird, David Asher…
I just downloaded and applied the Spybot 1.5.2 update, which of course required me to restart the computer. After rebooting I launched Spybot and noticed and a huge difference in the load time. As mentioned prior, the old 1.5.1 version would take up to a minute or even longer for the application to launch from the time you clicked the icon. Now the new 1.5.2 version loaded in a matter of few seconds. Speaking of load times, I timed how long Firefox took to launch. Much to my surprise it was up and running in about 4 seconds from when…
I noticed a couple comments on the Firefox 2.0.0.12 Released post about issues with add-ons when upgrading to this new release. I did upgrade to the released version of Fx 2.0.0.12 even though I should not have (more on this later). I did not have any issues with my add-ons no longer working or causing the browser to crash. While, I know two different readers have had this issue, I don’t know what add-ons they had installed or what OS they were using and for that matter if this involved the en-US version of Firefox. Without getting more specific details…
Last week Microsoft made an unsolicited offer to acquire Yahoo! with an initial asking price of $31/per share which was about 62% higher than the January 31st closing price. On Wednesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent an internal e-mail seeking to keep the company’s employees focused on its strategy despite the uncertainty created by Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition bid. Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that a merger involving Yahoo! and Google would be unlikely due to anti-trust (only Microsoft can get away with anti-trust, at least in the US) and regulatory concerns. To add even more mystery to…