Some of you may be aware of my webpage that compares the differences between Mozilla Suite versus Firefox and Thunderbird. With the impending release of SeaMonkey 1.0, I decided to create an equivalent page comparing SeaMonkey against Firefox and Thunderbird. Because SeaMonkey uses the Mozilla 1.8 codebase, I figured the list of differences would shrink; [...]
In case anyone has trouble explaining how to subscribe to newsgroups on the new Mozilla server, I’ve created a few instructional pages. They need some proofreading; so if anyone sees any mistakes, please comment. Mozilla Thunderbird SeaMonkey Mozilla Application Suite Outlook Express Xnews Agent Netscape Communicator 4 Opera
news.mozilla.org has now been switched over to Giganews. Just a quick reminder: The article sequence numbers won’t match between the old news server at AOL and the Giganews server. This means that you will have a wrong count of which messages are read. (Most likely, all messages will be marked as read, as well as [...]
In a previous blog entry, I mentioned that on January 4th, the webtools newsgroups/lists would be the ‘guinea pig’. There are some last minute issues, that will require some testing, before the switch is turned, to point news.mozilla.org to the Giganews server. The switchover date has been pushed back to Monday January 9th.