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Mozilla has released the first beta of Thunderbird 3.1, code named Lanikai. Several fixes to improve upgrading from Thunderbird 2. The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the Mozilla Public License (MPL), during which a new version of the MPL will be developed. The current Mozilla Public License, version 1.1, is already 10 years old. The Mozilla developers have released a second Firefox 4.0 preview, labelled “3.7 alpha 2″, which includes out-of-process plug-in support on Windows and Linux for more reliable browsing. With out-of-process plug-ins, when a plug-in crashes, it crashes in it’s own process, which is outside of the browser process, allowing the browser to gracefully handle the plug-in [...] A Mozilla Developer Preview is now available for download. This is the second pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.3 platform, which forms the core of Firefox and other Mozilla projects. Thunderbird 3.0.3 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download: As part of Mozilla’s ongoing security and stability update process, Thunderbird 3.0.2 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download: As part of Mozilla’s ongoing security and stability update process, Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download: As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, SeaMonkey 2.0.3 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from www.seamonkey-project.org. Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely. A Mozilla Developer Preview of improvements in the Gecko layout Mozilla has released the first alpha of its forthcoming Thunderbird 3.1, code named Lanikai after a Hawaiian beach. Mozilla has released Weave 1.0, the Firefox extension and service that provides Firefox user data synchronization among computing devices like laptops, desktops, and starting tomorrow, with Firefox for Maemo release, mobile devices. It is also great for users who dual-boot, and what don’t want to bother remembering where they did what. Planned as a minor update to Firefox 3.5, released last June, Namoroka (Firefox 3.6’s code name) is not only the quickest Firefox release but the first featuring Mozilla’s new beta approach: a single big beta release that gets frequently revised, and updated, keeping all beta users in the most current test lane. As part of Mozilla’s ongoing security and stability update process, Thunderbird 3.0.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download: The Mozilla Labs Bespin project, to create a web based integrated development environment which makes use of cloud functionality, is undergoing a reboot aimed at making Bespin easier to work with and extend. Bespin was introduced in February 2009 by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almear. In September 2009, Galbraith and Almear moved to Palm, which [...] (see this same post in HTML format here: https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2010/01/17/firefox-3-6-release-candidate-updated/ ) Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner has said that after Firefox 3.6, there will be no Firefox 3.7. Instead regular “feature updates” will be pushed to users. The plan to change how updates to Firefox are managed was disclosed in an interview with Computerworld. The original plan was to have a Firefox 3.6 release early in 2010, and [...] As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, SeaMonkey 2.0.2 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from www.seamonkey-project.org. Mozilla is taking no break this year end, and the Firefox team is actively working on the roadmap for 2010. In the beginning, there was Netscape and its Navigator — perhaps not exactly the beginning, but close enough. Then came Microsoft and Internet Explorer, launching the first browser war, and eventually, the death of Netscape and a massive anti-trust trial for Microsoft. IE has retained the market dominance it gained by Netscape’s downfall to the [...] | |||||
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