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Thunderbird 3 RC1 gets four last minute bugs fixes to become Thunderbird 3 release candidate 2.
One of the four bug had a critical rating – developers had to deal with Thunderbird shutdown hang, high CPU usage and no open IMAP connections.
If you’re using Thunderbird 3 RC 1 then you’ll certainly want to update to this new release. A direct download of the TB3 RC2 email client is also available on Mozilla’s web site, therein you’ll also find all the new features present in upcoming Thunderbird 3
Thunderbird 3 RC2 is a free download for all platforms.
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Lovers of kick-ass wallpapers can grab a whole bunch National Geographic’s professional background photos without even visiting the website. You can download National Geographic’s wallpapers one-by-one from the website or use this simple script to a get a whole-them-all in one move. More»
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For windows, Linux and Mac: Not long after the beta release, Sun Microsystems has released version 3.1.0 of the open source visualization application VirtualBox. As already explained in the beta release VirtualBox 3.1.0 is a major update that brings Teleportation (aka live migration) to VirtualBox. This makes it possible to transfer a running virtual machines from one machine to another. Added to the many bug fixes VirtualBox 3.10 also packs a 2D Video acceleration support for Windows Guest using the host video hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion. Virtual machines now have support for branching of snapshots/virtual disks. More»
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The Message Grouping feature in Thunderbird lets you a tclassy-up your message list into various ‘groups of messages’. In Thunderbird 3 messages can be grouped according to attributes such as Date, Received, Star, Order Received, Priority, From, Recipient, Size, Status, Subject, Read, Tags, Junk Status and Attachments. More»
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The Firefox 3.6 Beta saga goes on. Episode 4 a.k.a Firefox 3.6 beta 4 adds a 100+ fixes pack to previous Firefox 3.6 beta 3.
If you are using Firefox 3.6 beta 3 then Help -> Check for Updates and improve your browsing experience with a more stable and secured FF3.6b4. Web developers and Add-on developers have much to gain from this update.
– New in this version is the support for HTML 5 File API; “it’s now possible for web content to ask the user to select local files, then read the contents of those files. This selection can be done by either using an HTML input element, or by drag and drop.”
Help Mozilla make sure your favorite add-ons get updated for upcoming Firefox releases by using the Add-on Compatibility Reporter. Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 4
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