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Mozilla has announced the new thunderbird 3 as Mozilla Messaging

David Ascher, announced today the launch of Mozilla Messaging, Inc., a fully-owned Mozilla Foundation subsidiary (hence, sister of Mozilla Corporation) dedicated to advancing Internet messaging.As announced and discussed before, Mozilla is aiming to develop the Internet messaging area as well as the web browsing side and after years of developing Firefox and Thunderbird as Mozilla Corporation corporation, they found competition of both products for human, time and technological resources was slowing both products’ development.

On July last year, Mitchell Baker, then Mozilla Corporation’s CEO, announced that they would look for other organizational options for Thunderbird. Discussion ensued and a couple of months later it was decided that a subsidiary (nicknamed MailCo) would be created and led by David Ascher, with an initial $3 million in funding.

In the following months, David led the effort to make the subsidiary a reality while catching up with the present status of Thunderbird, now Mozilla Messaging’s base product, exploring ways to attain financial sustainability, and hiring, a critical task especially after Thunderbird’s main developers suddenly leave Mozilla a few weeks after the announcement of the subsidiary.

Mozilla Messaging board is integrated by David Ascher; Christopher Beard, VP and General Manager, Mozilla Labs; and Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database vendor MySQL AB.

In the press release, Marten, is described as an old friend of Mozilla with plenty of high management experience. Sun, which recently acquired MySQL AB, is also an important contributor to the Lightning project, a Thunderbird extension that adds calendaring capabilities, and will be integrated with Thunderbird 3, targeted for later this year.

In a blog post, David Ascher, who will report to Mozilla Messaging board of directors only, provides some details on the spirit of Mozilla Messaging as a project as well as some details of his short and long term vision.

[via-mozillalink.org]

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Organizer Mockup for Mozilla Firefox 3.0

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Fullerscreen: Firefox add-on of the day

You probably already know that Firefox has a “full-screen” mode. If you hit F11, the Windows taskbar will disappear, as will the very top toolbar in Firefox. This lets you squeeze a little bit more text onto your screen.

But you can do better. Nvu lead engineer Daniel Glazman has developed a Firefox add-on called FullerScreen. Once you install it, hitting F11 will make everything but the web page you’re currently looking at disappear.

But wait, you say, I need my tabs and menu bars. Well, you could always just hit F11 to toggle back and forth between fullscreen and windowed mode. But if you move your cursor over the top of the screen, you’ll see your toolbars and tabs. Ditto for the bottom of the screen.

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