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While Mozilla had been targeting today for the code freeze on the third beta of the much-improved Firefox 3.1 browser, it doesn't look like it will make that milestone. Meanwhile, though, there are quite a few updates from the company. Snowl, the company's experiment focused on delivering an in-browser messaging client for Firefox, is out in a new version, there are also updates on the excellent Firebug Firefox extension, add-ons for Firefox 3.1 and more.

Our sister site WebWorkerDaily has a first look post up about Mozilla's Snowl. It's a prototype Firefox extension that purports to move messaging beyond email and to the types of communication now commonplace across social networks, blogs and services such as Twitter, according to Imran Ali. It aggregates messages from email services, syndicated feeds, forums and social networks, but Imran finds it to fall short of its mark. Check out the reasons.