Mozilla has a new project called Test Pilot, which it uses to test usability of its products. It collects data from users on a strictly voluntary basis, and shares that data with the public anonymously so others can use it too. In fact, the testing platform itself will be available to the public as well.

This is one of two Google rumors that surfaced over the weekend. The other one is here.

ActiveState’s CTO and VP of engineering, David Ascher, will helm Mozilla’s new effort to build upon their Thunderbird email client.

Yes, we know Alexa isn’t accurate, in fact it has a number of blindspots, but it’s a easily accessed public web metric. But for checking out the Web2.0-ness of your site, you might like to check out URLFan.com.

While Firefox has had a version 2 available for some time, the email client Thunderbird has only just matched that version number with its latest release.

Well, the FTP link was seen everywhere and almost everybody in the little-ahead – techno-sphere were already playing with the Release Version of Firefox 2.0 from Mozilla even before the official announcement was made.

Anyone out there using Mozilla thunderbird as an email client?

Mozilla needs a little help with testing aspects of its upcoming versions of Firefox and Thunderbird and they have asked for volunteers.

While the desktop search craze (if there really was one) may have subsided some, that doesn’t mean developers are going to stop improving their product.

I don’t really remember why I decided to do this, but roughly a month and a half ago I began automatically forwarding copies of all my email to my GMail account.

This has been a quiet week at work: no big projects, few meetings, several coworkers gone.

A coworker pointed out the Mozilla Web-Mail project: “The Web-Mail extension creates a platform which other extensions use to integrate web based email accounts into Mozilla Thunderbird.

Mozilla has decided to focus less on its “Seamonkey” software suite and concentrate on Firefox and Thunderbird.

Mozilla has decided to concentrate less on its “Seamonkey” software suite and stay focused on Firefox and Thunderbird.

Finally there’s a desktop search product that’s actually useful to me: Google Desktop. I had tried the previous version of GDS a bit …

Complete with a boast of “reclaim your inbox”, Mozilla’s next Internet technology-based software, Thunderbird, has been officially launched. This marks the second major release of a Mozilla product that looks to compete with, and perhaps overtake, Microsoft’s Internet-based programs like Internet Explorer and Outlook.

The Mozilla Foundation today officially launched the Thunderbird email program – a companion to the Firefox Web browser.