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{ Monthly Archives } March 2006

Mozilla newsgroups are now allowing posting through Google Groups

When the mozilla.* newsgroups were originally set up, they were fed to Google Groups for archival purposes. Google allowed read-only access, not allowing posting via Google.
Things have changed (purposely). You can now use Google Groups to post to the mozilla.* newsgroups, and those posts will be fed to news.mozilla.org.
Anyone wishing to use Google Groups to [...]

Firefox 1.5.0.2 has NOT been released

The authors of the following webpages are incorrect:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Mozilla-Firefox-Final.shtml
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/19-mozilla-firefox.html
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_51_7277.html
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=downloadfile&ID=1398
http://www.ddlboard.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=491
http://www.softportal.com/freesoftware/2538/mozilla-firefox
When Firefox 1.5.0.2 is released, it will say so on Mozilla.com.
If you see any websites jumping the gun on a Firefox release, please contact the authors of those websites.

Newsgroups automatically updating in Thunderbird

People using Mozilla Thunderbird to read newsgroups may like this one.
Notice how when you expand the list of subscribed newsgroups in the folder pane, Thunderbird automatically connects to the server, to update the unread/total messages count on each subscribed newsgroup? Then, when you click on a newsgroup, Thunderbird automatically downloads new messages. Both actions can [...]

I’ve discovered SSI

Back in November, I posted about a problem I’ve had with my Mozilla and Netscape help sites. They had become too big to have all FAQs on one page, and were laborious to update. It was obvious that I needed to give each FAQ item its own page, but that presented a different problem. If [...]

Outlook and OE address book support in Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey (and even the Mozilla Suite and Netscape 7) can actually be set up to use your Outlook Express address book, and/or your Outlook Contacts list. It’s just another one of those features that are not in the user interface.
To make Thunderbird use your Outlook Express address book, close Thunderbird, and add [...]