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EL Reg Satirical IT/Media news site.

Mozilla Add-ons Main site repository for Firefox and Thunderbird extensions.

MozDev Hosting for Firefox/Thunderbird extensions.

Sun JRE The Java Runtime Environment, sometimes needed for Java-based applications.

BitTorrent The open-source BitTorrent protocol.

Mozilla Foundation The Home of the Mozilla projects: Firefox and Thunderbird.

As part of Mozilla's commitment to security and stability updates for both the Firefox and Thunderbird platforms, the next releases will update Firefox to 2.0.0.4 and Thunderbird as well to sync up the release cycles. The updates are due sometime this month.

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April 25

Firefox 1.5 Support Extended to mid-May

Mozilla has announced via MDC that it is extending it's support for the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 branch with security and stability upgrades until mid-May this year and is actively encouraging users to upgrade to the Firefox 2.0 branch.

Original post here:

Mozilla Developer Center Firefox 1.5 post

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April 22

Thunderbird 2 Covered on BoingBoing

Thunderbird 2.0 has had it's own coverage on Cory Doctorow's BoingBoing as well. Link available here.

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April 21

ABP now Checked into Mozilla

Wladamir Palant of ABP fame has now checked in part of the content filtering code into Mozilla 1.8.1 branch (Firefox 2.0) and will be included in the future Firefox 2.0.0.4 update due out in May 2007.

Adblock Plus has also been updated to version 0.7.5 and is available via AMO.

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April 20

Thunderbird 2.0 in all it's glory

With an improved visual theme like such? How could you not upgrade?

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	Creating Applications with Mozilla by Brian King, David Boswell, Pete Collins et al. Serves as an introduction to the Mozilla framework and XUL which allows open-source developers to build cross-platform applications using XUL - XML User Language Interface - as well as CSS, JavaScript, Gecko and XPCOM, Mozilla's component module

	Greasemonkey Hacks by Mark Pilgrim Greasemonkey Hack's is written for those who are familer with the popular Firefox extension of the same name that allows users to write custom scripts (often JavaScript based) to fix rendering bugs, add additional functionality to web sites etc...