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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Release Recap: August Week 4

Filed under: Firefox — El Guru @ 8:43 AM

Just Released

  • Major Update: Firefox 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 – August 25th

Schedule this Week

  • Firefox 3.1a2 - Early September 2008??

Future Release

Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version.

  • Firefox 2.0.0.17 - September 16th
  • Firefox 2.0.0.17 > 3.0.2 MU - TBD
  • Firefox 3.0.2 - September 16th
  • Firefox 3.1b1 – Early October 2008
  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 – TBD
  • Shredder (Thunderbird) 3.0b1 -  September 2008

Friday, August 29, 2008

Get a Mac: Calming Teas

Filed under: Get A Mac, Other — El Guru @ 4:12 PM

Just the thing to sooth your nerves after dealing with Vista…

Get a Mac: Throne

Filed under: Get A Mac, Other — El Guru @ 4:09 PM

Mac gets “banished”…

Get a Mac: Pizza Box

Filed under: Get A Mac, Other — El Guru @ 4:06 PM

Umm…okay…this one is a bit odd…

Get a Mac: Off The Air

Filed under: Get A Mac, Other — El Guru @ 4:03 PM

Not the news PC wants people to hear…

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Alex Polvi’s Final Contribution

Filed under: Blogs, Mozilla News, Other — El Guru @ 11:38 AM

Mozillian Alex Polvi who was responsible for the Firefox Crop Circle and the Firefox 3 Robot Build fame is leaving Mozilla. However, he is not leaving without one final contribution. The Foxkeh Dance, celebrating 10 years of Hampster Dance and 10 years of Mozilla, Alex has recreated the Hampster Dance but with Mozilla Japan’s Mascot Foxeh.

See The Foxkeh Dance in its full glory (Warning: turn down volume first).

Source: Mozilla Links

Monday, August 25, 2008

Fx 2.0.0.16 >> 3.0.1 Major Update Released

Filed under: Blogs, Firefox, Fx 3.0, Mozilla News, Releases — El Guru @ 6:59 PM

Very shortly the first Major Update to Firefox 3 should start rolling out. Like any other update users should get notification within the next 24-48 hours. What it sooner? Go to Help, Check for Updates. Users will be presented with a screen similar this:

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Keep in mind this updates is optional and you are presented with three choices:

  • select Later if you don’t want to decide now; Firefox will ask again in 24 hours
  • select Never if you don’t want to accept this upgrade offer; we might send you another offer again in the future, but it won’t be for several weeks or months
  • select Get the new version to continue on with the upgrade process!

Also, as with any other Firefox update it is going to wrong a ‘background-check” on your add-ons and automatically disable any that are not supported in Firefox 3. In the event you do have incompatible add-ons you will see this screen instead:

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Clicking on ‘Show List’ will display a screen showing the incompatible add-ons with an option to check for newer version

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Source: Mozilla Developer’s News

Updated TBird 3 Milestone Schedule

Filed under: 3 (Shredder), Mozilla News, Thunderbird — El Guru @ 6:15 PM

As mentioned in today’s Weekly Update Meeting, there is newly revised TBird 3 Milestone Schedule. The most noticeable about this new schedule is that does not include the final milestone, the release and the code freeze for the last build does not occur until January 2009. I was kinda hoping to see TBird 3 be released around the same time as Fx 3.1 this December, but based on this schedule this is not going to happen.

Here is the current TBird3 Milestone Schedule (subject to change):

  • 3.0b1 String Freeze — September 2, 2008

    • 3.0b1 Code Freeze — September 9, 2008
  • 3.0b2 String Freeze — October 28. 2008
    • 3.0b2 Code Freeze* — November 4, 2008
  • 3.0rc1 String Freeze — November 18, 2008
    • 3.0rc1 Code Freeze — January 13, 2009

* Beta 2 Code freeze also marks the end of any new additional TBird 3 features as well as ab extension API freeze

Source: Mozilla Wiki

Weekly Update: 2008-08-25

Filed under: 3 (Shredder), Firefox, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Fx 3.5, Mozilla News, Thunderbird — El Guru @ 6:00 PM

FIREFOX/GECKO

Fx 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 MU - Status: Releasing @ 7:00 PM PDT /10:00 PM EDT  August 25th

  • Major Update will allow current Fx 2.0.0.16 users to auto-update to Fx 3.0.1
  • Does NOT include ja-JP-mac builds (coming with Firefox 3.0.2)
  • Current Schedule

    • Final Release: August 25th

Fx 2.0.0.17 & Fx 3.0.2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze

  • Schedule

    • Code freeze: August 26th
    • Builds start: August 27th
    • QA starts: August 28th
    • Release to beta channel: September 4th
    • Final Release: September 11th

Firefox 3.1a2 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1a2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze

  • Schedule
    • Code freeze: August 26th
    • Builds start: August 27th
    • QA starts: August 28th
    • Release to beta channel: September 4th
    • Final Release: September 11th

Firefox 3.1b1 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1b1 – Status: Pending Code Freeze

  • Alpha 2 EN-US build only
  • Alpha 2 Code Freeze: Tuesday, August 19th

THUNDERBIRD/LIGHTNING

Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) – No Report

TBird 2.0.0.17 - No Report

TBird 3.0b1 (Shredder) - Status: Pending String Freeze

  • Updated Master Release Schedule
  • Current Schedule

    • String Freeze: September 2nd
    • Code Freeze: September 9th
    • Builds start: TBD
    • QA starts: TBD
    • Release to beta channel: TBD
    • Final Release: TBD

NOTE: Next Weekly Update Meeting in TWO weeks on September 8th

Complete Meeting Notes

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Release Recap: August Week 3

Filed under: 3 (Shredder), Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Fx 3.5, Mozilla News, Thunderbird — El Guru @ 2:16 PM

Just Released

  • AMO 3.4.7 on August 21st

Schedule this Week

Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version.

  • Major Update: Firefox 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 – August 25th 7:00 PM PDT / 10:00 PM EDT

Future Release

Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version.

  • Firefox 2.0.0.17 - September 11th
  • Firefox 2.0.0.17 > 3.0.2 MU - TBD
  • Firefox 3.0.2 - September 11th
  • Firefox 3.1a2 - August 2008
  • Firefox 3.1b1 – September 2008
  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 – TBD
  • Shredder (Thunderbird) 3.0b1 -  TBD
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