“We do not want to ship crap on time. We want to ship good software when it is ready to be shipped.” –Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe.

(on why Mozilla refuses to set a fixed date on the release of Firefox v3)

Is it a blast from the past or the future to come? This is the Mozilla Add-Ons RSS feed as viewed in Thunderbird. Note the date in the subject lines versus the time stamps in the date column.

Of course there are some grumbles and upgrades woes going on in the Mozilla forums, but I made the move this evening and everything is gravy. The upgrade instructions (from the Mozilla site) call for deleting everything in the Thunderbird program folder, but I just uninstalled v1.07 first and did a clean install.

Make sure to switch to the default theme before installing. It also doesn’t hurt to disable extensions either. When TB first launches it will search for upgrades to all installed themes and extensions anyway.

I like the new function for detecting “email scams”. It will be interesting to see how (or how well) that works.

Did Mozilla know it was my birthday today? They released Firefox 1.5 just for me? Actually, I think I’ll hold off upgrading for a few days to give the extension updates a chance to get caught up.

Another important event happened today. This is the last day of hurricane season. After the season we’ve been through, I think this day should be made a new holiday – National Snoopy Dance Day.

Akin to installing new themes for Firefox, you can also select your own background for the toolbars.

The article doesn’t mention which folder to place the background file. The chrome folder (in the profile directory) worked for me.

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