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Mozilla calendar team has released version 0.9 of Lightning and Sunbird. This brings the calendar project close to their 1.0 release. Here are some changes/new functionalities included in 0.9. Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the
Thunderbird 2 series. The future plan is to integrate
Lightning fully into the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release.

• Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as connected events
• When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown
• The so-called «minimonth» (small calendar month in the upper left) has been given a visual overhaul
• The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a visual overhaul
• The today pane can now be displayed in calendar mode and task mode as well [Lightning-only]
• CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved
• iMip/iTip support (support for email invitations) has been greatly improved [Lightning-only]
• The application stability and memory consumption has been greatly improved

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

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Mozilla Messaging team has released Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 2 code named Shredder. Shredder Alpha 2 is a developer preview release that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla's layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Shredder Alpha 2 is being made available for testing purposes only and is intended for developers and testing community.

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Mozilla has released the first incremental update after releasing the Firefox 3.0 browser a month back. Firefox 3.0.1 has the following fixes:

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Mozilla updated it's Firefox web browser to fix a problem with Javascript engine. Some users experienced crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. This could introduce security problem and successful exploitation creates a means to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. You are safer if you are using Firefox 2.0.0.14.

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Mozilla Calendar team has released version 0.8 of Lightning and Sunbird. This release includes numerous bug fixes and some new features. I updated my Lightning addon today and it's working well so far. I like the new interface change and added Task icon.

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Mozilla released another version of Firefox 2.0.0.11 within 4-5 days after releasing Firefox 2.0.0.10. This release fixes some compatibility issues with some websites and extensions.

Mozilla has released the first beta of their next generation web browser Firefox 3.0. There are lots of minor improvements and new features in Firefox 3.0 including the new Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform. Here are some of the new and improved functionality in Firefox 3.0:

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Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.9 today. This is a stability update. This release fixed bugs created by Firefox 2.0.0.8. Here are some of the bugs fixed, according to Mozilla.

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