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Mozilla has released their 2nd alpha of Firefox 3.1. This version includes the following changes:

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Zimbra has announced a partnership with Canonical and will be avaialable in the Ubuntu partner repository providing easy access to Zimbra suite both offline and online. Zimbra provides access to your Yahoo Mail, GMail, AOL Mail and any IMAP or POP email accounts in a single place. It also offers spreadsheet and document functions as well as mashup features with services like Flickr, Yahoo Maps etc.

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I use GMail Manager add-on for Firefox to access my 5 emails I have under Google's hosted accounts. For some reason, GMail Manager stopped working with hosted accounts for the past couple of weeks. GMail Manager team has released a new version couple of days back with a fix. The GMail Manager 0.5.5 includes the following fixes.

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I had problem accessing my GMail yesterday for a brief time. I was getting an error saying imap.gmail.com could not be found. I thought there was some problem with my account, but after I read the news today, I realized that I wasn't the only one who had that issue.

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You can now color code your GMail labels. You can select from 24 different colors. This helps in identifying the labels faster and easier than the way it worked before. You need to have the new GMail version along with Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2 to make use of this feature and also the group chat and emoticons features I blogged earlier.

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Google has introduced group chat in it's GMail chat tool (Google Talk via GMail). It lets you chat with more than one buddy at a time. There's no limit to the number of people you can chat with, and any participant can invite others to join. To get started:

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Close on the heels of launching Prism for Windows, Mozilla lab has released it for Mac and Linux. According to Mozilla lab, Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. With Prism, you can add your favorite web apps like GMail, Google Calendar etc to the desktop environment and run them as a normal desktop. Each application will be opened in it's own window. For more information, refer to Mozilla Lab.

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My GMail was updated to the new version yesterday. You won't see a big difference when you login. If your GMail is updated, you will see an option on top right saying Older Version, as shown in the picture below. If you don't see that option, you are still using the older version. I didn't notice the older version option first. When I logged in yesterday, the inbox first appeared shrunk and then expanded, once GMail completed loading the inbox. I was wondering why it was acting weird. I then found out that my GMail Manager addon is not showing the new message alert. I then noticed the older version option on top. GMail is working fine today. I hope the developer will update GMail Manager addon soon to make it compatible with the new GMail version.

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