Mozilla has released (early) for testing purposes the next milestone in the Fx 3.0/Gecko 1.9 series, Alpha 4. Some new features include: Inclusion of the FUEL Javascript library for extension developers. New page info window Cocoa user interface improvements and bug fixes Crash reporting via Breakpad (Mac OS X only) Improvements for off line application support Next up is Alpha 5 which is due out on May 31st. If all goes as planned, this should mark the return of Places which is the integration of History and Bookmarks with powerful tagging and search capabilities. Should Places actually make it into…
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It appears Mozilla has made some major updates to the Firefox 3 Roadmap. One of the most noticeable is actual release dates (example Fx 3.0a5 is due out on May 31st) for each milestone no more of this beginning/mid/end of whatever month type of release dates. Further there is a lot more info as to what is coming which each milestone: Alpha 5 – May 31st – Reintegration of Places, Idenity Framework (CardSpace support) Alpha 6 – June 28th – More integration of Places including adding tagging feature, download manager improvements, updates to Cairo and Cocoa Widgets on Mac OS…
Here’s the latest info from this week’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 – Due to the 39 open blockers, the code freeze which was scheduled for 04/20/07 has been delayed until later this week. Due to this the release which was scheduled for around May 15th has been pushed back. Thunderbird 2 – Released last Wednesday (April 18th) and has nearly reached the One Million downloads milestone! Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 – Alpha 4 scheduled for release week of April 30th. Don’t forget to check out our Upcoming Releases section for a comprehensive list of upcoming Fx and TBird releases.
Okay it is official per mozillaZine, Thunderbird 2 has been released! Scott MacGregor of Team Thunderbird writes in with news of the release of Mozilla Thunderbird 2: “Thunderbird 2 is now available for download on Windows, Mac and Linux in over 35 languages. Thunderbird 2 offers easy ways to manage and organize your email with message tags, advanced folder views, message history navigation, find as you type, and improved new mail alert notifications. Thunderbird 2 also includes a refreshed user interface and support for Microsoft Vista. “Thunderbird 1.5.0.x users will be offered Thunderbird 2 via software update at a later…
While reading Wladimir Palant’s (Adblock Plus author) blog about the improvements in ad blocking with the future Firefox 2.0.0.4 build, I came across this interesting piece of information about Yahoo Maps & Fx Nightlies: Finally, Yahoo Maps uses browser sniffing that causes it to behave strangely in Firefox nightlies. To “fix” go to about:config, find the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox and replace “BonEcho” by “Firefox”. So what exactly does “behave strangely in Firefox nightlies” mean? Take a look at these screen shots below (opens a new tab) with general.useragent.extra.firefox set to: Firefox BonEcho/2.0.0.4pre I had stopped using Yahoo! Maps because it did…
We are still about a month out on the next Fx build (2.0.0.4). One of the improvements with this build is going to be major improvements to ad blocking using the Adblock Plus extension. A couple patches have been added to the Gecko 1.8 branch which will work with the upcoming Adblock Plus 0.7.5: The patches ensure that content requested by plugins like Flash and Ajax based applications will be subject to the same content policies as regular web pages. So if for example you have asked to block images from server “http://ads.server.net” they will be blocked even if requested…
Okay it is official per mozillaZine, Thunderbird 2 has been released! Scott MacGregor of Team Thunderbird writes in with news of the release of Mozilla Thunderbird 2: “Thunderbird 2 is now available for download on Windows, Mac and Linux in over 35 languages. Thunderbird 2 offers easy ways to manage and organize your email with message tags, advanced folder views, message history navigation, find as you type, and improved new mail alert notifications. Thunderbird 2 also includes a refreshed user interface and support for Microsoft Vista. “Thunderbird 1.5.0.x users will be offered Thunderbird 2 via software update at a later…
…well almost. Mozilla hasn’t officially announced the release yet of Thunderbird 2 or update the release notes. However, you can obtain your copy from Mozilla mirror’s via CyberNet News. While you are there, be sure and check out Ryan’s very through review (with screenshots) of Thunderbird 2.
…well almost. Mozilla hasn’t officially announced the release yet of Thunderbird 2 or update the release notes. However, you can obtain your copy from Mozilla mirror’s via CyberNet News. While you are there, be sure and check out Ryan’s very through review (with screenshots) of Thunderbird 2.
Last weekend Google announced they were going to acquire online advertiser DoubleClick for a mere $3.1 billion. Also in the race to try and acquire DoubleClick was Microsoft. What could only be described as ironic, Microsoft along with AT&T are crying “Antitrust”. According to The New York Times Microsoft is claiming that the deal would “hurt competition in the fast-growing market for advertising on the Web and raise questions about how much personal information would be collected by Google.” Microsoft is usually the target of these antitrust battles, and now they find themselves on the other side. AT&T is already…