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Mozilla Project Celebrates Ten Years
Mozilla Foundation announces Directed Giving program
Mozilla Launches Internet Mail and Communications Initiative
Calendar Project Releases Lightning and Sunbird 0.5
Mozilla Foundation initiates search for Executive Director
Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2
Thunderbird 2 Release Candidate 1 Released
Mozilla and eBay Working Together to Make the Auction Experience Easier for Firefox Users in France, Germany and the UK
Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Firefox 1.5.0.11 Security and Stability Update
Firefox Community Beta Program
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released for testing. The fifth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 750 bug fixes over Beta 4, including improvements in user interface, location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom and other new features based upon user feedback. Firefox 3 Beta 5 can be downloaded from the Firefox beta page. The Firefox 3 Beta 5 Release Notes have more details, including information about what's new in Firefox 3 and what's been improved in this specific milestone. The Mozilla Developer News weblog's announcement of Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes links of interest to developers. Today marks ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation released the Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code. The source code was managed by Netscape-backed mozilla.org until 2003, and is now managed by Mozilla Foundation. VentureBeat has published a Q&A with Mozilla CEO John Lilly, and Wired News has published a photo tour of the Mozilla Headquarters in Mountain View, California to mark the occasion. Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 has been released for testing. The fourth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 900 bug fixes over Beta 3, including improvements in download manager, full page zoom, better integration with Vista, Mac OS X and Linux, and significant improvements in speed and memory usage. Firefox 3 Beta 4 can be downloaded from the Firefox beta page. The Firefox 3 Beta 4 Release Notes have more details, including information about what's new in Firefox 3 and what's been improved in this specific milestone. The Mozilla Developer News weblog's announcement of Firefox 3 Beta 4 includes links of interest to developers. A fifth beta milestone has been added to Firefox 3 Schedule based on the number of blockers remaining. Code Freeze for beta 5 will be on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008. Gervase Markham wrote in to inform us that Mozilla intends to participate in Google Summer of Code 2008 as a mentoring organization. Gerv's weblog post calls on interested people to submit proposals at the Brainstorming page at mozilla wiki. Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 was released for testing on February 12, 2008. The third beta of the next major Firefox version offers around 1300 bug fixes over Beta 2, including improvements in malware protection, bookmarking capabilities and the download manager. The latest beta also boasts of improved performance, including fixes for over 350 memory leaks. Firefox 3 Beta 3 can be downloaded from the Firefox beta page. The Firefox 3 Beta 3 Release Notes have more details, including information about what's new in Firefox 3 and what's been improved in this specific milestone. The Mozilla Developer News weblog's announcement of Firefox 3 Beta 3 includes links of interest to developers. RSS feed from/de : mozillaZine.org
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released
Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Releases Communicator Source Code
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released
Google Summer of Code 2008
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 Released
In this issue… Mozilla has been publishing the about:mozilla newsletter since November of last year. Having been at this for almost six months, we figure it’s time to gather some reader feedback which is why we’re running an “about:mozilla Newsletter” community survey. If you are a regular reader of this newsletter, we would really appreciate it if you could take the time to respond to the survey which you can find over at the Mozilla Europe site. At the end of the survey, there’s a place for you to enter whatever additional comments, ideas, thoughts, or criticisms you may have. The more feedback you can give us about the newsletter, the better the newsletter will be in the future. Please take the time to help us out by responding to the about:mozilla newsletter survey. Thanks! The Japanese Mozilla community, the Mozillagumi, will have their 9th annual party event on Saturday, May 31st in Tokyo, Japan. Speakers include Taro Matsuzawa of the Mozillagumi, John Daggett (platform developer) and David Tenser (SUMO manager) of Mozilla Corporation, Channy Yun of the Mozilla Korea community, Nakamoto-san of Open Office Japan Project, and Dr. Hiromitsu Takagi of the (Japan) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, among others. The event will be free and open to the public. Information in Japanese is available at the Mozillagumi site. Mark Finkle has put together a simple demo that demonstrates the new offline capabilities of Firefox 3. “Offline mode” or “offline caching” is a new feature in HTML 5 that allows web applications to work even when Firefox 3 is on a machine that isn’t currently connected to the Internet. Finkle’s demo is called “Task Helper” and you can read more about it on his weblog. For more information about using offline resources in Firefox 3, see the article on the topic over at the Mozilla Developer Center. Tristan, Firefox 3 and the BBC’s dot.life blog Tristan Nitot was recently in London giving a keynote speech at Internet World called “The dangers of the proprietary web - Future of the Internet and Open Source”. While in the UK, Tristan also met with Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC technology correspondent who writes for the BBC’s tech blog “dot.life”. Rory interviewed Tristan about open source, the background of Mozilla, and the new Firefox 3. Read the article and check out Rory’s video of Tristan’s Firefox 3 demo at the BBC dot.life weblog. The slow death of the press release Melissa Shapiro, Mozilla’s indefatigable Public Relations lead, has written an interesting article talking about why Mozilla doesn’t put out more press releases and how Public Relations is changing (or needs to change) as an industry. “The PR industry needs to revisit the concept of the next generation press release more than once every few years. Media is always changing. PR needs to keep pace or it will go the way of fax blasting: still around but completely out of touch with the modern era.” Melissa’s post provides a fascinating glimpse the inner workings of Mozilla’s PR efforts, making those processes more transparent and accessible. Check out the full post over at Melissa’s weblog. Firefox 3 Add-ons compatibility update Alex Polvi has posted another Firefox 3 Add-ons compatibility report, outlining the current state of the top add-ons that are not yet compatible with Firefox 3. This week’s list includes: Firebug, Tab Mix Plus, FireFTP, Foxmarks, FoxyTunes, Blue Ice, RedShift V2, and ColorfulTabs, among others. Alex is looking for some help, so if you would like to get your feet wet helping out with a Firefox release, head on over to his blog and see how you can get started. All about SUMO: Mozilla’s second community survey The Community Survey team has started publishing the results of Mozilla’s second community survey that focuses on learning more about the community that is helping with SUMO (support.mozilla.com). In these first two articles, they outline the process behind preparing the survey, publishing the survey, and some initial analyses of the results. More will be published from this survey, but for now check out the first two articles — part 1 and part 2 — over at the Mozilla Community Survey weblog. Firefox 3: Site Identification button One of the most exciting new security features of Firefox 3 is the Site Identification button. The button replaces and builds upon the ubiquitous “padlock” icon that has for so long been the primary security indicator used in browsers. Rather than just displaying a padlock, Firefox 3 finds out as much as it can about the sites being browsed, and makes that information easily accessible through a single click of a button. Through this feature Firefox 3 presents users with information that covers a range of different security levels. For lots more information about the new Site Identification button, check out the full article over at Deb Richardson’s weblog. John Resig, part of Mozilla’s Evangelism team, has (in his spare time, no less) ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript using the Canvas element. This project was launched last Thursday on John’s weblog, and his write up includes details about the project’s development and the Processing API, a host of demos, links to the full source code, and instructions on how to use it. The demos all work in the latest Firefox 3 beta, which you can download from the Firefox beta page. Lots more information is available at John’s weblog. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Subscribe to the email newsletter Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today we are code complete for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New nightly builds are available - if you are a nightly tester/Minefield user you can help test these builds by selecting “Check for Updates” from your help menu. Assuming no new issues are found today the build team will start official prep work for Release Candidate 1 (RC1) tomorrow. QA will start their extensive RC1 test pass on Monday. If all goes well we should have the Release Candidate publicly available in late May. RC1 is intended for wider scale public testing. Our 1.2M+ active beta users will automatically get updated to RC1 when it is released. If no new showstopper issues are found in RC1 it will become Firefox 3 final. If we find any critical issues we will continue to release new Release Candidates until we are ready for final ship. In this issue… SUMO (support.mozilla.com) and Spread Firefox are joining forces and putting on a Firefox Screencasts contest! “Starting the morning of May 19th on Spread Firefox, we will present the 100 most popular support articles from the SUMO knowledge base and ask YOU to create screencasts for one, two, three, or all of them!” You will be allowed to submit screencasts for as many articles as you like, but only one per article. The contest will run until June 15th. The most exciting part? There will be a winner for each of the 100 articles, and each of the 100 winners will receive a special Firefox Screencast Contest t-shirt. Only 100 of these t-shirts will be made, so this contest is the only way to get this exclusive collector’s item. For more information, head over to the SUMO blog and read the full contest announcement. As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from www.getthunderbird.com. Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest release. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes. If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification, or you can apply the update manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu. If you’re still using Thunderbird 1.5.0.x, this version is no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 as soon as possible. Starting this week, the Weave project will be holding public meetings once per week. The first meeting will be Wednesday May 7th at 1:00pm Pacific (4:00pm Eastern, 21:00 UTC). Meeting agendas and dial-in information can be found on the Mozilla wiki’s Weave Meetings page. Mozilla Embedding meet-up, May 8th + 9th Chris Blizzard would like everyone to know that there is going to be another Mozilla Embedding meet-up in Mountain View on May 8th and 9th (this Thursday and Friday). The goal is to start scoping a new Embedding API and getting some actual code put together. This will be run as an open meeting, so if you’re in the area and you want to attend, please contact Chris. For more information, see Chris’s blog post about this meeting, and his earlier post about the previous meet-up. Pascal Chevrel speaking at University of Sevilla, May 9th On Friday May 9th, Pascal Chevrel will be speaking about the organization of the Mozilla project at the Concurso Universitario de Software Libre, organized by the University of Sevilla in Spain. Alex Polvi has started posting a weekly “State of the Add-ons” report wherein he talks about the status of the top 10 add-ons that are not yet compatible with Firefox 3. This week’s list includes: Skype Toolbar for Firefox, Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer, FoxyTunes, Firebug, and PicLens, among others. For the full list, further details, and information about how to help, read Polvi’s blog post. Mozilla Labs, Higher Education, and New Opportunities Aza Raskin has posted some of Mozilla Labs’ goals for this year, which are centered around bringing the open-Web innovation process to a wider community. They’re working on a number of new programs, one of which is a more formal way for engaging with higher education. The Labs team is really excited to find new groups in academia to collaborate with, and this blog post outlines a few of their early efforts. Read the full post at the Mozilla Labs weblog. MozillaLinks interviews MicroB developer, Antonio Gomes Antonio Gomes, a MicroB developer, has been interviewed by Percy Cabello of MozillaLinks. Percy writes, “While Mozilla is gradually turning more attention to mobile platforms to expand its presence in the web, there’s another project, MicroB, that is already providing a Mozilla based solution for the Nokia Tablet PC platform.” In the interview, Antonio talks about the MicroB project, the interactions between MicroB and the Mozilla project, MicroB’s relationship to Mobile Firefox, and more. Read the full interview over at the excellent MozillaLinks weblog. Mozilla Summer of Code project information The Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2008 is in progress. Over the past three years, SoC has brought together 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide. Mozilla has a number of SoC projects underway, ranging from “Natural language parsing for automatic calendar event creation” to building OpenID support into Bugzilla. With eleven projects in all, it’s going to be another exciting and productive summer for Mozilla projects. For more information, including detailed descriptons of all the projects, check out the Mozilla SoC information page. 2008 Linux Journal Reader’s Choice Awards Both Thunderbird and Firefox have won 2008 Linux Journal Reader’s Choice Awards in the categories of “Favorite E-mail Client” and “Favorite Web Browser”, respectively. Nearly 6000 readers voted this year, so these are really great awards. The official announcement was made on May 1st, and the article announcing the winners can be found over at Linux Journal. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Subscribe to the email newsletter As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from www.getthunderbird.com. Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes. Please note: If you’re still using Thunderbird 1.5.0.x, this version is no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Thunderbird 2 by downloading Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 from www.getthunderbird.com. In this issue… Mitchell Baker’s Web 2.0 Keynote On April 24th, Mitchell Baker gave a keynote talk at the Web 2.0 conference. Doug Turner has written up some of the highlights, and provides an embedded video of the talk on his weblog. From the talk: “[T]here is only one web. Firefox is the best and most effective platform for getting to that one web. We are building Firefox for mobile to spark innovation and excitement. We need an open web based development platform to do this. We view Firefox as this platform.” For more, watch the full video, head over to Doug’s weblog, or check out some of the other media articles: Tristan Nitot has blogged about some of the latest statistics available regarding Firefox market share in Europe. “According to Xiti, Firefox is getting close to 29% in Europe. The increase is 4.5 percentage points on the past 12 months.” Also, “According to Gemius (Rankings.hu), Firefox 2 is now the leading browser version in Hungary.” For more market share news and links to these stories, see Tristan’s blog post. Changes to Featured and Recommended Add-ons on AMO Basil Hashem has written a post about the recent changes to the “Featured and Recommended” add-ons part of the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) website. “One of the changes that was introduced with the latest AMO redesign is the ability to highlight a wider variety of add-ons. Instead of a single list, recommendations are now on a per-application, per-category and a per-locale basis. This gives the community greater flexibility and increases the face time and exposure that an add-on can have.” For more information and details about these recent changes, see Basil’s weblog. Getting ready for the launch of Firefox 3 Paul Kim has blogged about the plans for marketing Firefox 3. “As with every previous version launch, we will be utilizing a combination of traditional marketing and PR programs with community and grassroots outreach. This combination has served us well over the past four years to drive adoption to over 160 million people worldwide, build the Firefox brand, and provide meaningful opportunities for participation at launch.” For more about the Firefox 3 launch marketing plans, check out Paul’s post. Last week Deb Richardson wrote a great introduction to Firefox 3’s new bookmarking features. Like most people, she talks about being frustrated with the state of bookmarks in older browsers, where they end up as a junk-drawer of forgotten links. “Firefox 3 introduces a few new features to bookmarks that make them much, much easier to use, more useful in general, and much more useful in particular for catastrophically disorganized folk like me.” If that sounds like you, check out the whole article. Flickr Uploadr, a developer’s story Richard Crowley, the developer of Flickr’s XUL-based cross-platform uploader utility, has written a great article outlining the reasons they chose XUL and the hurdles he’s had to overcome throughout development. Included is a list of links to detailed blog posts he wrote during (and about) the development of the project. It’s a great article and well worth a look — check it out over at the Flickr developer blog. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Subscribe to the email newsletterRSS feed from/de : Mozilla Developer News
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