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Firefox 3.0’s memory consumption is “dramatically improved,” claimed Mozilla Corp.’s chief engineer yesterday, because developers have aggressively attacked the open-source browser’s notorious memory “leaks.”
“We’ve been working on memory [leaks] for years,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering. “But it really started to come together in the last six months.”
Another milestone, however, […]

Mozilla Foundation just launched Firefox 3 Beta 2, the second beta candidate of the third iteration of its popular web browser. It will likely release the final version of Firefox 3 within a month.
On the other side of the field stands browser industry leader Microsoft, whose current offering is Internet Explorer 7, […]

Mozilla has unveiled new details of its schedule for Firefox 3, the next major upgrade to the popular open-source browser.
Alpha editions of Firefox 3 will be released monthly, said Mike Schroepfer, the company’s vice president of engineering, in a posting to the mozilla.dev.planning forum. “We will do date-driven alpha releases on a one-month cadence,” said […]

Mozilla will release the Thunderbird 2.0 e-mail Email Marketing Software - Free Demo program on Thursday at the primary download site. The new version adds message tagging, message history navigation, new search features and more. Thunderbird 2 has these new features, according to the Mozilla Foundation:
* Message Tagging — Organize e-mails by assigning tags like […]