Going to try something new here. Each Sunday I will do a quick recap of the prior week’s releases as well give an update on the status for upcoming releases. Besides Firefox and Thunderbird, I will also include addons.mozilla.org (AMO) as well. AMO (addons.mozilla.org) 3.4.3 – An updated version of AMO with improved search capabilities was suppose to be released on June 5th. However this has been pushed back to June 12th to address some performance issues with the search feature. Firefox 2.0.0.15 – Still (tentatively) scheduled for June 24th. There was suppose to be a code freeze this past…
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Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Mostly in triage and coordinating landing of patches Given the lack of patches for this release, 2.0.0.15 release date is currently at risk. Status: In Progress Code freeze: June 6 TENTATIVE Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 17 Final Release: June 24 Firefox 3 RC2 QA starts: May 12th Release to beta channel: Release: June 4 Gecko 1.9.1 mozilla-central opening this afternoon controlled checkins for next few days, talk to sheriff before checking in #hg for mercurial help Intro: Eric Butler, Intern…
Thunderbird has taken the honour of taking 43rd place in PC World’s: The 100 Best Products of 2008 Award. What I find a bit odd (besides being sandwiched between the Rock Band controllers and the Dell XPS 420) is there is a link to a PC World review in the list. The PC World review titled T-Bird E-Mail App a Winner is from January 27, 2005 and is a review of Thunderbird 1.0 (current released version is 2.0 and prior was 1.5). Oh well, as David Ascher put it, “I can’t wait to see where we land in 2009…“
NO Meeting on Monday, May 26th. US Memorial Day Holiday Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: In Progress Code freeze: June 6 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 17 Final Release: June 24 Firefox 3 RC 1 QA starts: May 12th Release to beta channel: Released: May 16th Gecko 1.9 RC 1 – No Report Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) – No Report TBird 2.0.0.14 – Status: RELEASED Major Bug: Bug 431819 – IMAP/POP/SMTP with SSL client auth, Thunderbird repeatedly prompts for client certificate Reported: May 2 Confirmed: May…
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
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: In Progress Code freeze: June 6 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 17 Final Release: June 24 Firefox 3 RC 1 QA starts: May 12 Release to beta channel: Final Release: Late May Gecko 1.9 RC 1 – No Report Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) – No Report TBird 2.0.0.14 – Status: RELEASED Major Bug: Bug 431819 – IMAP/POP/SMTP with SSL client auth, Thunderbird repeatedly prompts for client certificate Reported: May 2 Confirmed: May 5 Assigned: May 10 TBird 2.0.0.15 – Currently working…
You will notice in several places I have this disclaimer/warning: WARNING! The Firefox Extension Guru is an independent beta-tester and is not affiliated with Mozilla Corporation. While most of these tips, tricks, suggestions, etc. are relatively simple to do, there is still a risk of damaging your profile. Therefore these are recommended for advanced Firefox users and should be attempted at your own risk! Please! Consider backing-up your profile or creating a new profile before doing any testing or experimenting. There is good reason for this as I am about to explain with my Adventure in Safe Mode today. I have spent most…
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: In Progress Code freeze: June 6 Builds start: June 9 QA starts: June 10 Release to beta channel: June 17 Final Release: June 24 Firefox 3 RC 1 11 blockers left on the front end 3 to be patched 2 Places bugs, ETA today Fx3 credits, waiting on last call, will be closed out today. See mconnor’s blog post for the last call for nominations, please _email_ nominations to mconnor by EOD. 27 fixed in the last week Gecko 1.9 RC 1 Code freeze: April 8th Builds start:…
As mentioned in the Weekly Update 2008-04-28, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is to be released today. Users will be prompted for an automatic update within the next 72 hours.Those wishing to upgrade now can do so via the Help Menu, Check For Updates option or by downloading the latest release at getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 contains many security fixes and the full details can be found in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes.
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Currently working on bug triage Firefox 3 RC 1 – No Report Gecko 1.9 RC 1 Code freeze: April 8th Builds start: QA starts: Release to beta channel: Final Release: Status: 26 Blockers remaining for RC Content: 7 (6 w/ patches) GFX: 10 (7 w/ Patches) JS: 3 (3 w/ Patches) Layout: 3 (3 w/ Patches) Platform: 3 (3 w/ Patches) General: 2 (2 w/ Patches) Still 1 unowned blocker. Approximately 8 have patches of some sort. Blockers closed in last seven days by platform team: 15 Blockers created…