MozillaNews.orgMozillaNews!Firefox 1.0.2 released- March 24, 2005 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 has been released. This release fixes a security bug with a buffer overflow in GIF images. Important links to downloads, release notes, etc. below. Firefox product page FTP Download Directory Release Notes Also note that there is no zip builds available for win32 builds. This is due to people having auto-update problems.http://mozillanews.org/?article=860a4cb954becf40e370e66ca0ba4280 From TweakXP comes FireTune- March 23, 2005 From the folks behind the Windows XP utility TweakXP, Total Idea, comes a new freeware utility for Firefox called FireTune. It's essentially a collection of various performance tweaks rolled into one little freeware applet, making it easier than digging though about:config. It's freeware, so we're not getting a kickback here, but it looks genuinely interesting. They're even soliciting community created GFX for the tool.http://mozillanews.org/?article=8e047bce2d7188e5871c3a8e92e32f94 Thunderbird 1.0.2 Released- March 22, 2005 Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 has now been released. No, you didn't miss the 1.0.1 release, it was cancelled close to release due to further issues discovered in the release candidates. Since ther ewas a forthcoming Firefox 1.0.2 release on it's way, the decision was made to scrub TB 1.0.1 and roll all the fixes into a matching 1.0.2 release. Thunderbird 1.0.2 direct download links: Windows Linux Machttp://mozillanews.org/?article=ef520926ea60ec3029c81f0d7d215047 CaminoBrowser.org Launches- March 22, 2005 The Mozilla Camino browser project, which is Mozilla.org's Mac OS X native browser, now has it's own domain and website. It's meant to be the new source of official releases and information about the Camino project. We look forward to a newly competitive OS X native browser to go toe to toe with Safari, and to compliment Firefox for OS X.http://mozillanews.org/?article=818f94a3b9bbcb6c0a70546c6f8362e9 Student Created Firefox Commercial-mockup- March 21, 2005 I swiped this directly from Gervase Markham's blog, it's just so cool it needs a higher profile. "A guy called Eric Edwards, a motion graphics student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, has done a rather cool television-style advertisement promoting the use of Firefox. It's a student project which he's planning to enter in an Adobe design contest." This is Gerv's original entry. Thanks to Gerv for finding it, and thanks to Eric Edwards for making a fantastic little peice of...http://mozillanews.org/?article=9fdb4bb732d53d361992fab0254d6f90 Yahoo Reneges on Firefox Compatibility Pledge- March 18, 2005 Despite promises earlier this week, Yahoo is backing away from it's pledge to ensure Firefox compatibility with future services. Despite the Gecko core technology being around since 1998, Yahoo has justified backing away from the seven year old rendering engine by stating, "In the grand scheme of things Firefox is still a new technology." With Yahoo recently celebrating it's tenth anniversary, one must wonder when a technology is mature to the Sunnyvale California company. The company.http://mozillanews.org/?article=cbee59be1a718cbdd63f49055028b5eb Firefox and Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Java, and Syracuse New York- March 17, 2005 We have a flood of Firefox newsbits today. First up, Yahoo has caught on to Firefox's popularity, and extensibility as a platform (as noted by their Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox release last month), and thus confirmed plans to open their APIs to Firefox development, and would ensure all new services were compatible with both IE and Firefox from the start. Ask Jeeves is following suit with their own Firefox native toolbar extension. Apparently, they're big Firefox fans, and want to share the joy...http://mozillanews.org/?article=4544d4c838d10f4452212ccdc54dc2a6 Project Save Seamonkey Lifts Off with First Meeting- March 17, 2005 Like "Law & Order" we're ripped from the headlines. Mozillazine ran an article about the first meeting held on the Mozilla IRC server, complete with complete logs of the meeting. Basically, what was handled was general direction of the project. Finding out what modulecomponent owners wanted to remain involved, discussing statistical analysis of remaining bugs in Seamonkey, and finding and designating volunteers and leaders (very important, since one problem Seamonkey had was...http://mozillanews.org/?article=c9f158a945264c665d12a2c08f8a6045 |