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Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08 2009, @05:48PM
from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

Mozilla Messaging unveils raindrop 0

Submitted by mhammond on Thursday October 22 2009, @05:13PM

mhammond writes "Mozilla Messaging has just unveiled a mozilla labs project, raindrop, an experiment with Open Messaging on the Open Web. Raindrop, it uses couchdb as a storage engine and to serve the HTML/CSS/Javascript application itself, while the back-end is primarily written in Python. Although it is early days yet, the concept that you own your data may be what sets this apart from Google Wave. http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop"

Hey, Linux Fanboys: Stop Giving Apple a Free Ride-> 3

Submitted by

Death Metal

on Sunday August 30 2009, @10:46AM

Death Metal writes "Yet in important ways, Apple is more closed than Microsoft. Apple controls not just software, like Microsoft does, but its hardware as well. Try to sell a non-Apple computer with Apple's OS on it, and you'll get hauled into court by Apple lawyers. Apple has also taken legal action against bloggers who report on upcoming hardware and software releases. There's a long list of ways in which Apple is far more closed than Microsoft.

Yet the Free Software Foundation, and many other open source proponents, conveniently ignore these facts, and regularly attack Microsoft, while giving Apple a free ride. Apple, after all, has the "coolness" factor in its favor, and it's fashionable and easy to attack Microsoft."
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Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3 402

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 21 2007, @08:39AM
from the i-don't-remember-nothing dept.

DaMan writes "ZDNet picks up on yesterday's Firefox 3 beta 1 review by comparing the memory usage of Firefox 2 against the latest beta. The results from one of the tests is quite interesting, after loading 12 pages and waiting 5 minutes, 2 used 103,180KB and 3 used 62,312KB. IE used 89,756KB.""

Developer calls for boycott of Firefox-> 0

Submitted by

jantman

on Monday September 17 2007, @02:15PM

jantman writes ""Boycott ad-blocking Firefox, urges furious web designer"

This designer feels that "Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of website owners and developers". I've never heard of these rights, but would sure like to find out about them. Apparently this gentleman has not heard of the rights of software users, and users of the Internet. I don't like giving press to such a thing, but you have to give this guy credit for trying to reverse the finally-working trend of web standards.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news/124719/"
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