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The good news is that the Calendar Project has finally delivered the standalone cross-platform calendar application Sunbird 1.0 beta 1, the bad news is that its going to be the last release of Sunbird from the Calendar Project – the team will focus its development efforts entirely on the Lightning extension that tightly integrates Mozilla’s Sunbird calendar into the cross-platform desktop email client Thunderbird. It took the team 18 months and nearly 500 bug fixes to get Sunbird 1.0 beta 1 out.
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Mozilla has released a Firefox update that patches a security vulnerability in Firefox 3.6.2 web browser. This vulnerability was discovered and exploited during the Pwn2Own competition that challenges hackers to break the latest versions of the most popular web browsers – Firefox and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7, and Safari on Mac OS X, were hacked. More»
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Open source desktop email client, Thunderbird has been update to version 3.0.4 for all platforms. This update focuses on security and stability, a total of 82 bugs have been fixed – 19 were considered critical. Several fixes were also to the user interface.
Thunderbird 3.0.4 is now available for download at Mozilla Messaging, with release notes. If you are using Thunderbird 3.x.x then check for updates.
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Google Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.360.4 for Windows and Mac and 5.0.360.5 for Linux. Google in this update has taken many by surprise by integrating Flash to the Chrome browser. For now you need this command-line switch to enable the Flash plug-in; --enable-internal-flash, but not long from now all Chrome versions will have flash by default. More»
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Opera 10.51 (and 10.52) for Linux has been completely rewritten from scratch, with the hope of resolving long time outstanding issues says Ruari, one of Opera’s developers in this blog post. Apart the code overhaul (the .rpm and .deb packages have cleaner post-install and pre-uninstall scripts and the tarball install script is entirely replaced, added uninstall script for tarballs, multiple installations made easy and more), some changes have been made as to how Opera handles its widgets. More»
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