about:mozilla is a weekly round-up of news and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week:

Firebug Alive And Well
Kevin Dangoor from the Mozilla Developer Tools group writes that Jan (Honza) Odvarko is the new leader of Firebug after John J. Barton stepped down from the role. The next Firebug release is coming soon and future releases are being planned, so now is a great time to get involved with Firebug.

Tilt

Tilt is a fun new Firefox extension focused on creating a 3D visualization of a webpage. Check out the Tilt blog to find out how to install it and get involved.

Zombie Compartments
Sometimes Firefox holds on to memory when it shouldn’t and you end up with a Zombie Compartment. Help us hunt down these zombies and improve Firefox’s memory use. Nicholas Nethercote shows you how to find and report these memory bugs.

Ask MDN
Rob Hawkes has information about Ask MDN, a new project to get a panel of experts together on Twitter for an hour to answer your questions about Web development. The first topic will be HTML5 gaming and creative JavaScript. Follow @AskMDN on Twitter to take part.

Thunderbird Beta
A beta version of the next version of Thunderbird is now available for testing. The new version includes improvements to Microsoft Outlook importing, user interface enhancements and other bug fixes.

Enterprise User Working Group
Stormy Peters has announced the relaunch of the Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group as a place for enterprise developers, IT staff and Firefox developers to discuss the challenges, ideas and best practices for deploying Firefox in the enterprise.

Upcoming events
* August 12 – 13, online or at local meetups organized by you, Mozilla Developer Network Doc Sprint
* August 16, London, England, Selenium users meetup
* November 4 – 6, London, England, Mozilla Festival — Media, Freedom and the Web
* See more on the Mozilla Community Calendar

Get Involved
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about:mozilla is a weekly round-up of news and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week:

Every Six Weeks
Johnathan Nightingale explains how new releases of Firefox are able to come out every 6 weeks. The transition from Firefox 4 to Firefox 5 took 3 months since the Aurora and Beta channels started out empty, but now that each channel is full a new stable release is ready to go in just 6 weeks. More details (and some nice charts) are in his blog post.

Local Communities Around The World

There are over 50 local Mozilla community sites around the world that you can now easily find on new maps. Discover what’s going on with Mozilla in Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the South Pacific, Europe and Latin America.

Introducing BrowserID
Mozilla is excited to announce BrowserID, an experimental new way of signing into websites. Our goal is to design something safe and easy for users and developers. Try out the quick tutorial and demo site and let us know what you think.

Mozilla in the New Internet Era
Mitchell Baker posts her thoughts about how to continue Mozilla’s mission of building user sovereignty into the fabric of the Internet as the nature of people’s lives online is undergoing immense changes. Please share your thoughts and ideas to help us determine how the community should move forward.

Firefox and 64-bit Windows
Armen Zambrano provides the latest about new testing versions of Firefox for 64-bit Windows. Give the builds a try and let us know how it works for you. Your testing now will help get this ready to release as an official build.

3D World in the Browser
Robert Kaiser writes from the “State of the Map – Europe” conference about the cool new OpenWebGlobe for WebGL. This is an open source 3D environment in the browser written fully in web technologies with no plug-ins needed. Try out the Alpha version and help make this work even better.

Upcoming events
* July 22 – 23, Mountain View, California, World Series of Hack
* August 16, London, England, Selenium users meetup
* November 4 – 6, London, England, Mozilla Festival — Media, Freedom and the Web
* See more on the Mozilla Community Calendar

Get Involved
These are just some of the available contribution opportunities. Learn more about other ways to get involved!

About about:mozilla
The newsletter is written by Mozilla’s contributor engagement team and is published every Tuesday.

If you have anything you would like to include in our next issue, please contact: about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.

You can also subscribe to the email version.