Independent Status Reports

The independent status reports include news and updates from 
Mozilla application and extension projects hosted on mozdev.org 
and elsewhere in the Mozilla community.

The latest report was posted on January 4, 2004 and includes:

Firebird Help - v1.0, a Help Extension/Viewer for Mozilla Firebird,
has reached version 1.0! It has been checked into the Trunk and is now available in 
recent Firebird nightly builds! An alpha release of the Help Viewer for Thunderbird is available.
And make sure to check out the Firebird Content Packs specification.
http://firebirdhelp.mozdev.org
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/help-viewer/content_packs.html

MacroTracker - v0.1a, a local Bugzilla App (without server) in Java,
has been launched. This application will allow local Bugzilla-like installations that do not require 
a web server. This will make it easier for smaller programming projects that might not have enough 
resources for a local intranet server.
http://macrotracker.mozdev.org/

Search Sidebar - v0.1.2, bringing advanced search capability back to life for Firebird users,
unfriendly and buggy plugins have been removed from the installer, and 
some popular plugins have been added The site now has uninstall instructions available.
http://searchsidebar.mozdev.org/

xHermes - 0.3 : pre3, one click web access,
After some pretty long time xHermes is back and can be added and run from Sidebar again.
However, few service files have been updated and work is in progress.
http://hermes.mozdev.org/

Forumzilla v0.4.3, an extension to Mozilla and Thunderbird for reading RSS feeds,
a new pre-alpha version is available with bug fixes including the bug that caused the download 
of feed entries multiple times, and the bug that caused some feed entries to display an incorrect timestamp.
http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/

wmlbrowser - v0.5, display of WML content in Mozilla browsers,
this release gives much better integration with the browser - WML content appears in the main content area, 
and functionality such as Back/Forward, Reload, View Page Source now work. Additionally a couple more 
reported bugs were fixed: the browser now sends "text/vnd.wap.wml" as an accepted content type.
http://wmlbrowser.mozdev.org/

MozManual - Final 1.0, an Introduction to Mozilla : A Manual for First Time Users; a brief overview and feature guide,
The final version 1.0 is now available. Translations into Dutch, French, German,
and Spanish are in progress. See the project Notes page for details, and requests for
translation help.
http://mozmanual.mozdev.org/

MozEdit 0.1.1, advanced text editing for Firebird/Mozilla with a web development emphasis,
some minor bugs were fixed to increase stability. Work has begun for version 0.1.2 to fix localization issues.
It now works in Mozilla suite and Firebirde edit in Tab, Window, or Sidebar options added and 
enhancements to Emacs editing mode option added.
http://mozedit.mozdev.org/

Read more about each of these projects in the full report at
http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article4146.html