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Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2
Gentu writes "Along with the new Mozilla-Japan initiative and the release of Mozilla 1.8a3 today, the Mozilla team released the first 'official' beta release of Mozilla Sunbird, version 0.2, a stand-alone calendaring application (similar to Apple's iCal). There are two flavors of this project, one that works as a ~700 KB plugin to Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla (titled Mozilla Calendar) and the ~8 MB stand-alone calendaring application, Mozilla Sunbird (rate the apps over at GnomeFiles.org). These builds are the first to feature a new default theme, a new logo and the customizable toolbar functionality. Note that Sunbird is still an experimental technology preview that contain bugs, but it is pretty stable."
700kb vs 8MB? Now, what shall I choose :)
Gotta love the astroturfing from OSNews (Eugenia?).
/. to post their version of articles (thus providing free advertising)
/. was paid for it. Then it's an Ad. So... which is it? Surely /. is not mixing advertisements with editorial content?
/. sold out big time. Ads are one thing. Editorial changes and comment spam? Thats another thing entirely.
I called them on this last year too. Gentu = Posted by OSNews. So frequently, I wonder if it's paid. Do a search for artices containing Gentu. Actually, I did it for you. Every few days, there is an article linking to OSNews (or a sub site such as gnomefiles.org, or nmcx.com) submitted by Gentu. Either they are gaming the system, or they are paying
In this case, they added a link to gnomefiles.org to the article (which has no value to the story) and it still got posted without editing. I mean.. "rate the apps at gnomefiles.org"? Why not freshmeat.net? Why not just post your thoughts here? It is out of place, unless
To add insult to injury, they post this anonymous astroturf to the comments. "I visit daily to get my dosage of GNOME apps" ? Seriously - if you are going to spam comments, at least try to hide the fact that you are advertising. Marketing drones learned not to be so obvious years ago. Catch up.
I mean.. damn. It's so ridiculous.
Could someone explain how this browser is different from Firefox? I'm pretty happy with Firefox, but should I upgrade to Mozilla Sunbird now? Any new features of note?
On the 0th day, God created C
Atleast it's an actual word that people aren't embarassed saying outloud.
click here: link
I always refer of the Mozilla suite as "gay bullshit", especially when one of my employees suggests to use it sitewide. I mean, Internet Explorer is the standard for all web protocols, so why change it? I credit the efforts of the former Netscape employees who really try to use their time of unemployment to create something useful, but they just keep on missing the needs of their target audience.
Sad, but true.
Duh.... this is STUPID. Why the hek would anyone want to use a half baked open sores clone of iCal rather than the real, far far superior, thing?
Because Apples hardware, at least on their laptops, is both expensive and fault prone. And their UI is just poor.
Thanks for the troll, k' thanks, well played.
And people complain about Microsoft's bloat. That calendar app better suck my dick if it's going to take up 8 MB.