So, for removing this problem Mozilla brings new extension, Minimize to Tray for thunderbird. Minimize to Tray offers you to minimize Thunderbird to the system tray as a replacement for staying always on the taskbar. After installing it, the tiny Thunderbird icon will always show up at the area of notification taskbar or when you minimize or clicking close button. From now user will be informed consistently when latest message is arrived. Away from its basic functionality, Minimize to Tray option give you the opportunity to run Thunderbird at the same time as Windows start (depends on your settings). There are also quite a few configurable options that will help the Thunderbird users. So download it and enjoy with your Thunderbird from now.

It fixes several security issues for instance,

• URL spoofing with invisible control characters.
• Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards.
• XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect.
• Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability.
• Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7).

The Firefox also fixed several stability issues and the Firefox 3.0.7 official release for the Estonian, Kannada and Telugu languages are available. Another problem was, items in the “File” menu shows inactive after using the “Print” item from that menu - switching to a new tab restores them (bug 425844). This problem is also being fixed. The MAC users of the Flashblock add-on, experienced an problem where sound from the Flash plug-in would continue to play for a short time after closing a tab or window. So, it seems that Firefox 3.0.7 fixed several issues related to accessibility features.

The update Firefox 3.0.7 is free to download, so enjoy it and take pleasure of using the update Firefox.

Mozilla says Firefox 3.0.6 fixes a number of issues found in Firefox 3.0.5, as well as security and stability issues. It fixes security vulnerabilities, improves stability, improves the capability for scripted commands to work properly with plug-ins and resolves a handful of other small bugs. It also fixes a trouble that some users have reported where parts of the screen were not correctly displaying after Firefox was open for long periods of time.

Here we some other important features that are new in Firefox 3.0.6:

• Improved the ability for scripted commands to work properly with plugins.
• Removed the client user ID from crash reports.
• Fixed issues with the display of some Indic scripts.

To get the complete bugs fixed of this version, click here. You also can download the update via Firefox’s automatic update, or from the Firefox website.

Although the guys from the Mozilla is claiming that the intention for Snowl is to be all encompassing, currently its only capabilities are reading feeds and Tweets. The subscriber to an RSS feed or connect to Twitter by feeding Snowl your username and password and your feeds show up right there in your browser in the view of your choice:

The River view
In this view, a slim left hand column will appear in your browser window listing the people you follow and shortcuts to websites. The rest of the browser shows the actual content. If you click on a feed or a user’s Twitter icon to display only their material in the main part of the browser or click on the All icon for a smorgasbord of your favorite content.

The Stream view
This view provides shortcuts to your RSS feeds and entire tweets will appear in a slim left hand column in your browser window. The rest of the browser is left for you to surf as you please. A refresh button is also included at the top of the “stream” in case you have a sneaking suspicion that things are going on in your content-verse.

The List view
This view is more like an e-mail client view. Twitter users and feeds listed in the left hand column, titles of each tweet/article in a horizontal column at the top and the main content viewing window in the remaining. On top of the ability to tweet directly from your browser, Snowl offers up little search fields in each view. You know, in case there’s something you want to revisit but the thought of browsing through tons of content for it makes you crazy.

The Principles of Snowl

• People and conversations are first-class objects.
• One single application can satisfy a broad range of users.
• Feeds are a transport format, not a feature.
• Searching option is better than pre-categorization.
• A messaging application is a platform.
• Browser features are very useful for messaging.

The new version of Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 features 

• Tab interface for mail
• For faster message viewing IMAP is been improved
• New improvement on the message reader view
• New Add-ons Manager
• Address book interface is been improved
• Improved import of a mail from other Mail Clients
• Window Vista search integrated
• Mac OS X Address Book integrated  

As the new Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 is now available for download, user can download Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in 38 different languages.

Here we mention some of the exciting features of Firefox which makes it different from others for the web designer’s.

• Page Source: Firefox has really an ingenious source code viewer with code highlighting. You can easily see the code of one part of a full page by its view selection source option.
• Error Console: It is a great tool of Mozilla Firefox that is used for reporting errors in the application chrome and in web pages user opens. It gives the error and warning reports of JavaScript and CSS related errors.
• Page Info: Firefox has really an exceptional tool which is page information tool that lists detailed information about a page.
• Firebug: This extension put a wealth of development tools into your Firefox. This will provide you live debugging on CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.  You can easily copy the code of nice part of site and can use it into your stylesheet through the extension.
• FireFTP: For the developer FTP application is so much important. And FireFTP is an FTP client that you can launch right in your browser’s window. So you don’t need any separate FTP application, if you are a user of Firefox.
• ColorZilla: With this exciting feature you can get a color reading from any part in your browser and can quickly adjust this color, then can easily use of it into another program. It is obviously much better than searching for a particular color code all over in a stylesheet.
• Web Developer Toolbar: A must have option for any web designer. This extension adds a toolbar that has a long selection of webmaster tools and resources. It has ability of view source of CSS easily in new tab, validation of HTML, CSS, Feeds, and many more access. Other it is included with information and manipulation of forms, images, and cookies.
• JavaScript Debugger: This extension offers feedback for JavaScript errors which provides a lot of detailed information to assist you troubleshoot and fix the problem.
• Codetech: It is web designer’s best code editor, can be opened in a new floating window.
• Measure It: This is a simple but very effective feature. It is mainly a ruler that allows you to discover how much space something is taking up on the page.
• YSlow: It is an extension which is developed by Yahoo. It helps to understand why a web page is slow. Here is report card generated that specify why the web page is performing poorly based on Yahoo’s rules.
• Screengrab: This extension allows you to take full mode screenshots of web pages. With this you can capture the visible portion of web page and able to copy it to clipboard.
• Window Resizer: This a great feature which allows you to change between different resolutions and screen sizes for testing your layout.

This is not the end of the list of Firefox web development extensions and benefits. Here are also lots of extensions and benefits of Firefox for web designers. You can find regularly new addition and update of Firefox web development extensions, you can easily add that to our comments and we will love to know about them.

This objective is paying attention on testing the core functionality and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. The public beta of Mozilla’s first web browser to integrate a private browsing mode is being made obtainable to the normal user, which is the best option of this feature. This beta version has feature to do private browsing mode, in the no frills packaging that developers have assured. In this mode make it is easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or removes all traces of a website of where the user has been, are not recorded for the duration of the session. In this version it is also appear able of the improvements of the Gecko layout engine, including approximate parsing for quicker content rendering. The new Trace Monkey JavaScript engine is invented to speed up web functionality by orders of magnitude. It is one other significant feature that could make v3.1 very important for Mozilla. This beta is now also available in 54 languages and has new support for web worker threads.

So for testing purposes you can download it now and can enjoy the new exciting features.

From now Mozilla will take note to keep track of the amount of money donated to each project and will work with the individual project teams to identify and fund appropriate project. If no suitable program can be identified or a project becomes immobile or otherwise ineligible to receive the money, the Mozilla Foundation will come up with some admirable project-related ideas to fund using those designated donations.

Since the Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit foundation, so in a press release, Mozilla clarify that the directed charitable agenda is planned to open up new opportunities for users to be connected with the Mozilla project.