Mozilla
Songbird 1.2 Released
My favourite music player has just been updated and version 1.2 released.
I picked up the story from The H where they’ve done a great job of describing most of the new features in a single paragraph.
Jaunty, Thunderbird 3 and Lightning
First a sort of apology I guess. Things have been really busy recently so I am not finding as much time to blog as I would really like.
Having said that, I took the opportunity yesterday to migrate my main desktop PC from Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid to the soon-to-be-released 9.04 Jaunty Jakalope and I also upgraded my email client from Thunderbird 2 to a recent nightly build of the nearly-ready Thunderbird 3 release along with the excellent calendar extension Lightning.
Did Microsoft make Firefox?
This post by Matt Assay discussing how we got to a competitive browser market got me thinking. (Dangerous I know, but bear with me.)
… I suppose the truly intriguing thing is not that we have a competitive market for Web browsers again, but how it happened. Baker told me recently that Firefox is “an anomaly” because it managed to beat back overwhelming Microsoft market share. Can we do it again?
Migrating from Windows
The last Windows computer in our house is very shortly going to be history 
I have been threatening my wife’s PC for quite some time now, but there has been no real motivation to move until today… Our bank called and told her a credit card has been fraudulently used in the last few days. Fortunately they appear to have correctly and swiftly identified the misuse and are dealing with the problem.
Wolfie get’s his Glorious Day
Fantastic. Mozilla have clearly been listening…
These are just mock-ups but I doubt that they’d be showing something far from what will transpire. It looks nice, requires no consent, and certainly wouldn’t aggravate me.
Power to the People! [on Mozilla's Firefox EULA]
Anyone reading this old enough to remember that line from the BBC TV Sitcom “Citizen Smith“? I think I have just seen it in action.
Are Mozilla losing the plot?
The creators and owners of the Open Source Firefox web browser seem to have ignited a bit of a war in the last few days.
In Ubuntu’s next development version (Intrepid Ibex) due for release next Month, Mozilla have demanded that for Ubuntu to continue to distribute Firefox, they must display an EULA.
This is the ONLY EULA I believe that is currently present in the “main” repository of Ubuntu and certainly the only one that a user would be required to accept in the default Ubuntu Desktop configuration as is currently supplied.
