ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) New blog post on Bandwagon last week New Category Landing page design Add-ons newsletter sent out Compatibility Update 81.2% compatible with some flavor of Fx3.1 60% compatible with Fx3.1b3 and newer, will continue with individual outreach to understand why there’s still a gap between compatibility with latest and 3.1.* compatibility FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.8 Code froze a few hours late QA is currently verifying bugs On track for mid-April release Firefox 3.0.9 Schedule forthcoming this week Should have a good list of blockers later today Will send email to blocker owners about targeted code freeze date Fx 3.5b43 (Shiretoko)…
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ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.0.3 shipped last week, blog post going out today describing changes Editor notification for add-on changes Improved dashboard with week-over-week display “Share This” links and other features Planned 3.5 migration 3.1b4 will get converted to 3.5b4 on 3/17 3.2a1 will get converted to 3.6a1 on 3/1 Sam Sidler coordinating 5.0.4 release will update compatibility dashboard to consider 3.1 and 3.5 to be the same version. Compatibility 3.1* compatibility still around 80% 3.1b3 compatibility up to 55% which is a 30% increase from last week. FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.8 Code freeze is tomorrow night at 11:59pm Please work on…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 5.0.3 release this week Anonymized Survey Results The biggest request involves the review queue and the time it takes to get out of the sandbox. (24 requests) There is a real need for better documentation (22 requests) Tutorials are scattered across the internet and are often out of date. (21 requests) The IDE’s/tools for writing and debugging extensions are lacking. (15 requests) A few developers really want some sort of marketplace for extensions (6 requests) Next step: some form of roundtable to reach out to developers to go over these results and what we are doing to address…
Just Released Firefox 3.0.7 – March 4th, 2009 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.1b3 – March 2009 Future Release Firefox 3.0.8 – April 7th, 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.21 – March 17-18, 2009
While I have always covered Thunderbird in the Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog, the Thunderbird content tends to get deeply buried beneath all the Firefox and general Mozilla posts. Just searching by the Thunderbird category brings up 233 entries, however only 74 of those posts pertained exclusively to Thunderbird. All the Mozilla Project Weekly Status and Release Recap posts are under the Thunderbird category as well. So I have created the sister blog The Guru’s Thunderbird Blog. This blog contains the above mentioned 74 post ranging from June 1, 2006 up until March 1, 2009 have been re-posted on to this…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 5.0.3 code freeze 3/8 Link sharing week over week dashboards Bayesian sorting of rated add-ons ‘About AMO’ page Ability for editors to subscribe to add-on changes Q1 retrospective and Q2 planning Bandwagon Tagging Front page Category page redesign impl Revised Roadmap Compatibility update 80% of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1, up 1% from previous week FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.7 Release this Wednesday, March 4th Firefox 3.0.8 Code freeze is March 17 at 11:59pm Release in mid-April Fx 3.1b3 (Shiretoko) – Status: Pending Code Freeze Firefox Front End Work Front-end blockers looking good: only 9 blockers without patches remaining, only two…
I have tried unsuccessfully for quite a while to have a background image in my TBird message signatures. Never really made sense why it would not work as the file looked fine in my HTML editor. Sure, I could add them into each message by going to Format >> Page Color and Backgrounds but that is a bit of pain to do each time I go to compose a message. I have just gone without having background images in my signature. A couple days ago I came across the article 10 must-have Thunderbird Addons (+ 25 more) which Gareon had…
Just Released Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b2 – February 26th, 2009 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.0.7 – March 4th, 2009 Firefox 3.1b3 – March 2009 Future Release Firefox 3.0.8 – April 7th, 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.21 – March 17-18, 2009
Mozilla Messaging has released Thunderbird 3 beta 2 today. Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality of the new features and platform changes that will be included in Thunderbird 3. For additional information about the new features, visit this blog post. New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include: New Activity Manager New ability to Archive email see the complete list of bugs fixed Source: David Ascher
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 5.0.2 release last week: Fixed bugs Updated developer dashboards Extension permalinks (now developers can link directly to the latest version of an add-on) Enhanced anonymized stats tracking of logged-in vs logged-out users Compatibility update 79% of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1 Email to developers went out a little over a week ago, response has been positive but many are waiting for b3 before putting significant work into compatibility AMO Mascot/Logo by Sean Martell FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.7 Beta this Wednesday afternoon Release next Wednesday at 3pm if all goes well Firefox 3.0.8 Code freeze is March 17 at 11:59pm Release…