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Mozilla Links – English Edition
Issue # 4 – October 14, 2003
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Welcome back to Mozilla Links!
Mozilla Links is now being translated into Italian, German and Dutch,
making Mozilla Links available in five different languages. If you would
like to help with translating the newsletter into your own language,
check for the Mozilla Links Translation Guidelines, at:
http://newsletter.mozdev.org/trans_guide.html
We are sorry to announce that the design contest for the Mozilla Links
logo and HTML layout has been canceled, due to low response. We are
currently working on a much requested new HTML format that will allow
a better presentation and functionality. Hopefully, you will be receiving
the newsletter in the new format within two issues.
We would like to thank David Boswell for his contribution to the Mozilla
Links newsletter. David, as an administrator or mozdev.org, the central
location for Mozilla applications and projects, was the regular reporter
on these project status reports. Due to time constraints, he is handing
this responsibility to Brian King, contributor of the Project of
the Week. Thanks to you both.
As always, your comments are very much appreciated. Please send them to
newsletter-feedback@mozilla.org.
Percy Cabello
Mozilla Links
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In this issue:
1. BETTER MOZILLA
- Googlebar
- Let Mozilla Check your Bookmarks for New Pages
- Creating Applications With Mozilla
2. THE NEWS
- Mozilla 1.4.1 Released
- Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 Release Candidate 3
- Mozilla Gains Support for Adding and Editing vCards
- AOL Lays Off Netscape/Mozilla Transition Team
3. MOZILLA INSIDER
4. MOZILLA PROJECTS: QuickManager and Independent Status Reports
5. MOZILLA LINKS POLL: Extensions Anyone?
6. CONTACT INFO
1. BETTER MOZILLA
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Featured Extension: Googlebar
You may know that among other great features, Mozilla browsers let you
perform searches using your favorite search engine, and that Google (TM)
comes as one of the defaults.
But if you want the whole power of Google and to be able to easily perform
searches using the specialized Google engines like Google Groups,
Google News, Froogle (shopping) and others, highlight searched terms or
translate into English, then you need Googlebar.
It is not affiliated in any way with Google, but does an outstanding
job bringing the original Googlebar functionality to Mozilla browsers.
Try it at:
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/releases.html
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Mozilla Links Tip: Let Mozilla Check your Bookmarks for Updates
(contributed by mozillatips.com, edited by Percy Cabello)
Mozilla’s Bookmark Manager can automatically check any bookmark for you
to see if it has changed. Follow these steps to set an automatic
web page monitor and alert:
- Open the Bookmark Manager (Bookmarks/Manage Bookmarks).
- Right-click on the desired bookmark and select Properties.
- Change to the Schedule tab and enter what days you want Mozilla to
check for updates, range of hours and frequency of the checks.
- Open the Notify tab to set how do you want Mozilla to alert you when an
update is found: change the bookmark’s icon, play a sound, open the
webpage in a new window or display an alert message.
Check the full text of this tip at:
http://www.mozillatips.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=63&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Mozilla Links PowerTip: Creating Applications With Mozilla
(contributed by Percy Cabello)
If you are ready to create your dream Mozilla extension or the next
killer application, you should be aware of this book. Co-authored by
David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins and Eric Murphy,
it explains in detail all the technologies that are at play in Mozilla
and are available for extending it. It is published under the Open
Publication License. You can read the entire book at:
http://books.mozdev.org/chapters/index.html
For the best experience, grab a printed copy from O’Reilly at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mozilla/
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Need more tips? Try the TipBar Extension to get the Tip of the Day in
Mozilla Firebird. Grab it at http://tipbar.mozdev.org
You can also visit http://www.mozillatips.com for more fun tips for
your favorite browser.
Have a Tip or a PowerTip? Let other users know about it by sending it
to newsletter-feedback@mozilla.org .
2. THE NEWS
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(contributed by MozillaZine, your source for Mozilla news and
advocacy. http://www.mozillazine.org )
Mozilla 1.4.1 Released
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A minor update to Mozilla 1.4 has been released. Mozilla 1.4.1 contains
around 100 additional bug fixes and also includes a spellchecker, a
feature not present in 1.4. Windows users who had installer problems
with Mozilla 1.4 or experienced display resource issues will be
especially interested in this build, which is available for all platforms.
Mozilla 1.4.1 Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4.1/
Download Mozilla 1.4:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.4.1
Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3804
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 Release Candidate 3
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A third release candidate of Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 is now available
for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The final version of Thunderbird 0.3 is
expected to be released simultaneously with Mozilla 1.5.
Download Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 Release Candidate 3:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/2003-10-08-1.5/
Scott MacGregor’s related post to the MozillaZine Thunderbird Builds
forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=221246#221246
Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3799
Mozilla Gains Support for Adding and Editing vCards
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Front-end support for vCard was added to Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups on
October 5th. A vCard is like a business card attached to your message as
a .vcf file. To create your vCard, in Messenger go to Edit > Mail &
Newsgroups Accounts Settings. Click on your account. You will see an
‘Attach my vCard to messages’ check box and an ‘Edit Card…’ button.
Clicking on the button brings you to the Edit Card dialog which looks
like an address book card dialog. (Note: the card is not saved to your
address book; rather, the information is saved to your preferences file
as identity.id#.escapedVCard.) Each account has its own card. You can
check the ‘Attach my vCard to messages’ option to automatically add your
card to your messages. You can also add your card in the mail Compose
window via the Options menu.
Note that a vCard is an attachment, not a text snip added to end of your
message like a signature. Also note some mail clients may not recognize
vCard. You can put both a signature and a vCard in one message.
Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3789
AOL Lays Off Netscape/Mozilla Transition Team
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In an expected move, America Online laid off the last remaining Netscape
employees paid to contribute to Mozilla on September 30th. Although AOL
sacked or reassigned most of the Netscape browser division back in July,
they agreed to continue employing Asa Dotzler, Brendan Eich and David
Baron for a couple of months as part of a transition team to keep things
running smoothly as mozilla.org reduces its dependence on AOL. This
transition has involved moves such as setting up the non-profit Mozilla
Foundation and migrating mozilla.org servers from Netscape hosting to
services provided by meer.net.
AOL has not completely ended its involvement with the Mozilla project
yet – the transition is not entirely complete and the online giant has
promised to give the Mozilla Foundation $1 million in addition to the $1
million donated so far. All the members of the transition team are
expected to be hired by the Mozilla Foundation in the next few weeks.
Full story: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3762
3. MOZILLA INSIDER
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(contributed by Alex Bishop)
Mozilla Firebird 0.7 is getting even closer, with more release
candidates now available for testing:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/nightly/latest-0.7/
An official installer for Firebird is also in the works, though it is
not likely to be included in 0.7.
The lead developer of the Camino browser for Mac OS X has proposed a new
review code process for approving changes to the program, with the aim
of kickstarting development and attracting more contributors. Some new
flags have been set up in Bugzilla to facilitate the introduction of
this new process.
Details about the new review process:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/004144.html
Information about the new Bugzilla flags:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/004177.html
As part of the Mozilla Foundation’s continued server migration, the
mozilla.org download site (ftp.mozilla.org) has moved to a new server.
In addition, the directory structure of the FTP version of the site has
changed (for example, it’s now
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/ to download the
latest nightly). The URLs for the HTTP version remain the same (for
example, http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/). Myk Melez’s
newsgroup posting about the server move, posted before the change took
place, has more information:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3F7B7262.2000506%40mozilla.org
A new version of the ChatZilla IRC client is now included in the latest
Mozilla Application Suite builds. Version 0.9.40 fixes bugs 221068,
220839, 217358, 207182 and 213782.
Full status update: http://www.mozilla.org/status/2003-10-12.html
4. MOZILLA PROJECTS
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Project of the Week: QuickManager
(contributed by Brian King)
The QuickManager project aims to develop a tool to easily install and
manage Extensions and Themes. It lists all popular Extensions and Themes
with a description, update time, version and preview if available. The
user may also manually enter the URL or file name to install an extension.
Presently, QuickManager is available for Thunderbird only, but future
versions will be available for Mozilla and Firebird, along with more
features.
http://quickmanager.mozdev.org/
Check this and other Projects of the Week at:
http://www.mozdev.org/featured/index.html
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Independent Status Reports
(contributed by David Boswell)
The independent status reports include news and updates from
Mozilla application and extension projects hosted on mozdev.org
and elsewhere in the Mozilla community.
The latest report was posted on October 9 and includes:
- QuickManger, allows you to install and manage extensions and themes,
has just been announced.
http://quickmanager.mozdev.org
- Quote Colors, a quote level colors extension for Thunderbird, has
just
been announced.
http://quotecolors.mozdev.org
- Sardine, an active content customization agent, is under new
management and is under development again.
http://sardine.mozdev.org
- Jazilla, a Java based version of Mozilla, has just released two new
builds with greatly improved CSS support.
http://jazilla.sourceforge.net
- HONcode, a collection of Mozilla/Netscape plugins for HON, has just
released HONcode Status v1.0 and HONlookup v1.0.
http://hon.mozdev.org
- Mozedit, an advanced text editor with web development features,
announces that version 1.1 will be available at the end of October.
http://mozedit.mozdev.org
- Camino, a Cocoa/Mac OS X Mozilla browser project, has fully restored
service to the mailing list via the web.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino
Read more about each of these projects in the full report at
http://mozillazine.org/articles/article3800.html
5. MOZILLA LINKS POLL
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On last issue we asked which operating system you regularly run
Mozilla products on. The results show, a really big share of Linux
users among the Mozilla community. Complete results:
41% Linux
39% Windows 2000/XP
13% Windows 95/98/ME
2% Windows NT
2% MacOS
2% Other OS
1% Solaris
(*) Results may not sum up to 100% due to rounding.
This week, we would like to ask you about Mozilla extensions. Do you
regularly use Mozilla Extensions with your Mozilla browser?
- Yes, 5 or more.
- Yes, 4
- Yes, 3
- Yes, 2
- Yes, 1
- No, Mozilla does everything I need
- No, for other reasons
Let your voice be counted at http://newsletter.mozdev.org
6. CONTACT INFO
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