It took a total of 120 bugs fixes, of which 19 are marked critical to get Thunderbird 3.0.2 out into the wild. Users of Thunderbird email client can check for updates at Help -> Check for Updates. Particularly addressed in this release; fixes for Thunderbird 2 users upgrading to Thunderbird 3 and several fixes to Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), More»
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Dragonfly is certainly the first Opera project to go open source, it has always been released under the open source BSD license, with source repositories on Opera servers. On fully open sourcing Dragonfly the source repositories have been moved to the public Mercurial repository BitBucket. More»
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For Windows, Linux and Mac: Now that Facebook chat supports XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) client formerly known as Jabber, it is easy to bring Facebook chat updates to your Ubuntu desktops via Ubuntu notification, libnotify. More»
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For Windows, Mac, Linux: Thunderbird, the open source desktop e-mail client reaches another important milestone. The first alpha of Thunderbird 3.1 has just been released. The Thunderbird team wants to align its development cycle more closely with that of the Firefox web browser, so that Thunderbird can better leverage the constant stream of improvements that the Firefox development community is making to Gecko and other components that are shared between Firefox and Thunderbird. More»
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Mozilla’s Stephen Horlander that showed us some iterations of Windows design mock-ups for Firefox 4 has posted again on his personal blog a couple of animations showing what might be tab-tasks in still-to-come Firefox 4.
The goals of these animations as Stephen puts it, is to give a visual clue to the functions of Tabs. The animation posted here simply shows how adding a new tab is will be an animated task.
For more details and Tab tearing animations with affordance move to Stephen blog.
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