Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Mozilla Calendar revisited

Mozilla Calendar revisited:
When we last spoke with Brendan Eich on the Gillmor Gang show, I mentioned that a version of Mozilla Calendar packaged as a Firefox extension was the lone obstacle standing in the way of my upgrade to Firefox 1.5. So now I've upgraded to the standalone version of Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, and it seems to be working nicely on both Windows and OS X. That enabled me to switch permanently to Firefox 1.5, which in turn enabled me to try out the experimental Sunbird packaged as a Firefox-1.5-compatible extension. Conclusion: although both the standalone and extension versions are in an "alpha" state, the standalone version is better (stabler) for now.

(Via Jon's Radio.)

Mozilla and hypocrisy

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