Sunday, October 08, 2006

Latest beta releases of most used software

Latest beta releases of most used software

Firefox 2.0rc2 and thunderbird 2.0alpha1 really rock. Speed is pretty impressive. For a release tagged alpha1, thunderbird 2.0 is really stable. I use both at my work and at home :)

Although performance improvement is obvious, I don't really see any significant features in these releases. Much like how KDE releases are these days... Big list of features listed but none that really stand out.

I feel a plateau coming for firefox / thunderbird in terms of significant features offered unless they start to think tangentially...

OTOH, GAIM 2.0 beta3 really rocks. I can really see qualitative improvements in the UI and it feels more fun than the stiff 1.5.x releases.

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