For Linux, Mac and Windows: Mozilla has just released version 2.0 of its all-in-one Internet suite, SeaMonkey. Freshly vanished SeaMonkey 2.0 is now available for free download in 18 different languages. Its got “Tabbed emails”, a completely retouched Download Manager, a newly added Session restore (crash recovery) feature.
Seamonkey 2.0 also gets closer to the most recent Firefox as it uses the same internal platform as Firefox 3.5.4 – that definitely affects several aspects in Seamonkey 2.0 like add-ons that now have a familiar Firefox-like Add-on Manager; updating, installing, disabling or uninstalling add-ons gets easier. This move is also to make Seamonkey extension development less tedious for Firefox extension developers that can now use the SMILE JavaScript library also in making Seamonkey extensions. More»
For Mac, Linux and Windows: Formerly, to install a Thunderbird add-on from Mozilla’s Add-on Collector website you had to click on the “Download Now” button, save the xpi extension in your computer, fire-up the Thunderbird Add-ons manager, click on the “Install” button, pick-up the extension, install it and restart Thunderbird. Smarter fellows trimmed the long process by dragging the downloaded xpi extension file directly to the Thunderbird Add-ons manager. More»
“Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome).”
“Raindrop comes with a built-in experience that bubbles up what conversations are important to you. You can participate in the experience by writing extensions that use standard open Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Or, use the lower level APIs to make your own experience. You have control over your conversations and how you want to play with them.”
For Windows, Mac and Linux: Enigmail, the Thunderbird extension that makes sending and receiving encrypted email easy now has a nightly build for Thunderbird 3. This security extension for Thunderbird and Seamonkey makes encryption and decryption of sensitive data in emails just a matter of a click – by using the OpenGPG standard provided by GnuPG. More»
[b²] Gmail Notifier is an Adobe AIR based application that alerts you of incoming Gmail messages with cool and funny splash animations. The notifier packs-up four different animations, you’ll find in them in the “Settings” dialog; Right-click on the Gmail icon on your notifications bar and hit “Options” -> Animations tab. It seems more animations will soon be present on the authors website — use the “Get more” and “Install Animation…” buttons to add available extensions. More»
![[b2] Gmail Notifier](/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/b2GM.png "[b2] Gmail Notifier")
