Leslie Franke

David Bienvenu has announced that tab support has been added to the Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0a1 pre-nightly. This feature appears to be what many Thunderbird users have been calling for. If you want to try it out remember that this is still not even an official alpha release and Thunderbird 3 is very unstable at the moment.

PicLens is a newly released plug-in for the Mozilla Firefox browser (Windows only), by Cooliris, that lets the user launch a full-screen slideshow while browsing photos on sites such as Flickr. It was first released last year for the Safari browser and can best be described as something similar to the slideshow feature in Picasa. Support for PicLens is currently provided for Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Picasa, and image search results from Google and Yahoo. In addition, web sites can add support for PicLens to their site by including support for Media RSS.

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While attempting to implement a Suckerfish dropdown recently I ran across a problem that causes the menu do not function properly in IE 7. Basically, if you change focus within the browser then move back across the dropdowns, the menus stick in place on the screen. Fortunately, ‘Built from Source’ has posted a simple solution to this problem.

Recently Apple released a version of their Safari browser for Windows. The Safari 3 public beta comes in both a Windows and Mac version. To many this was a surprise as at one time Apple would not have considered releasing a product for Windows. The success of iTunes has had an effect on this thinking, though, as it has given Apple a leading position in the music sales market and introduced Windows users to the Mac platform. For this reason some have postulated that Apple is hoping there are Windows users who love their iPods and iTunes that they will also download Safari and eventually make a move to the Mac platform. A second reason that is being suggested is that Apple is trying to take a piece of the search marketplace by launching a Windows version of the Safari browser so that users can use the Safari Google powered search field. While Safari is a free download it is one of Apple’s most profitable software products as the integrated search bar is a revenue generator.
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Before Internet Explorer the most dominant browser on the market was Netscape Navigator. After losing the browser war to Microsoft, some serious missteps, and dropping the Navigator portion of their name Netscape became nothing more that a minor player in the browser scene. A fews days ago, Netscape released the latest version of their browser (Netscape Navigator 9), bringing back the “Navigator” name and changing the user interface to match the one used in Mozilla Firefox 2. In addition, with this new version, several new features have been introduced which are designed to make Netscape Navigator a more viable browser alternative.
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