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about:mozilla: Fashion Your Firefox, Firefox China Edition, about:labs and more…Fashion Your Firefox
With several thousand add-ons available for Firefox, sometimes it can be hard to find the right one. Today Mozilla is announcing Fashion Your Firefox which lets you select a set of add-ons based on how you use the web. Profiles include Shutterbug, News Junkie, Social Butterfly and others. See the Fashion Your Firefox post on the Official Mozilla Blog, the FAQ or David Rolnitzky’s blog post about it.
Firefox China Edition Released
Today Mozilla is announcing the availability of Firefox China Edition. Li Gong writes “Today we released Firefox China Edition, which can be downloaded at g-fox.cn and other popular download sites. Based on the tremendously successful Firefox 3, the China Edition is a super-charged version that provides a whole range of benefits to Internet users in China.” Mike Beltzner has an excellent write up of some of his observations of how people use the Internet in China and how the China Edition tries to create a localized experience for users in China. You can download Firefox China Edition from g-fox.cn.
about:labs - A New Weekly Newsletter About Mozilla Labs
The Mozilla Labs team has started a weekly newsletter to cover the exciting things that are going on in Mozilla Labs. The first edition of about:labs covers Weave, Ubiquity, Snowl and the Concepts of the Week. Right now you can follow the newsletter on the Mozilla Labs Blog. In the future you will be able to get the newsletter in an email format, just like about:mozilla.
Bugzilla at NASA
CNet has a story about a tool that’s being used inside of NASA to track issues and communicate more effectively. The Problem Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (PRACA) system is based on Mozilla’s own open source bug tracking system, called Bugzilla. The article says “According to Alonso Vera, the lead of the Ames Human-Computer Interaction Group, the single, universally accessible PRACA package is replacing a set of more than 40 different database systems that had been used over the past 30 years by the many different parts of that Shuttle ecosystem.” You can read more about it in an article on mozillalinks.org and in a post by Max Kanat-Alexander.
Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.18 Released
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.18 as part of its ongoing support for existing products. These updates contain stability and security fixes and it is recommended that all users update to these versions of the browser. See the post in the Mozilla Blog for more details.
Spread Thunderbird
Mozilla Messaging has launched Spread Thunderbird, a site that lets people who love Thunderbird come together and work to promote it. See the announcement by Mary on the Mozilla Blog for more information.
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