Web Development News and Articles

Among the changes to Ubuntu 10.04 is that Google will lose its place to Yahoo as the Firefox standard search engine. Canonical attributes it to financial reasons.

With version 3.3.0, the free spam filter SpamAssassin has its first big release since May, 2007.

The Mozilla Firefox 3.6 browser is now available and provides performance improvements and numerous technical enhancements.

The OpenOffice project and the Mozilla Foundation have each put out a subsequent RC for the upcoming OpenOffice 3.2 and Firefox 3.6 versions.

Formerly kernel and file system developer at the Linux Foundation, Theodore Ts'o has been working at Google since January. His first project: The migration of the file system ext4.

Google has added Web storage to its Google Docs service.

Stuart Parmenter, responsible for Mozilla's mobile realm, has announced at the start of the new year in the Mozilla blog the first release candidate for the mobile Firefox.

The carrier pigeon has arrived. After almost two and a half years in development, the new version 3 of the popular Thunderbird e-mail program is now available.

The Californian Software company Appjet has been added to Google’s Wave team. Appjet’s collaborative Web editor Etherpad was initially supposed to be scrapped, but is now planned for Open Source release.