How to Set the Default Browser on Ubuntu From the Command-Line
My Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty” will soon explode with the growing number of web browsers I dump into it each day and punctually each newly installed web browser has this message when you run it the very first time run it; “Make me your default browser”. I just ignore the message cause I’m never really sure […]
Official Google Chrome Alpha for Ubuntu/Debian
“DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM!”: Google has made available Chrome browser for Mac and Linux on its Chromium blog, but it does not advise you to download them – – this early version for Linux is said to be incomplete and unpredictable. If you still want to test and try Chrome on your Intel Ubuntu 9.04 box, […]
Opera 10 Beta ‘Turbo’ Released
Opera Software releases the first edition of Opera 10. Opera 10 Beta is to be noted for it’s enhanced speed and performance. Turbo Opera 10 is said to “offer a variety of new features, including compression technology that can cut by a third the time it takes pages to load on slow networks.”
Flock 2.5 comes with More Support for Facebook and Twitter
Windows/Mac/Linux: Flock Social Web Browser loads versions 2.5 with more support for social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube etc. Flock, based on Mozilla, is a social media inclined browser – – the ideal browser for Facebook and Twitter users.
Flock – The ideal Browser for Facebook Users
In the browser war, the trio Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer try to sort out which one amongst them is “the good”, which one is “the bad” or which one is “the ugly”. For Open Source lovers and web designers, it is rather easy to say which one is “the bad” one. In some cases […]
Lobo Browser – An extensible all-Java web browser and RIA platform
The guys at the Lobo Project should be really heady, with all the excellent browsers around they aim at building an extensible browser, written completely in Java. The Lobo browser should be the first ever browser written in Java. It is developed to completely support HTML4, CSS2, Javascript(AJAX), JavaFX and Java Swing. The browser uses […]
MozSwing – A smart browser built on XUL and Java Swing
The MozSwing project seeks to integrate Mozilla’s XUL framework with Sun’s Java Swing GUI framework, the result is a prism-like browser called MozSwing that can be download as a JNLP(Java Network Launching Protocol) file.
Google Chrome – The Open Source Webapp launcher and Browser
In an effort to build a better browser or webapp launcher Google picked-up pieces of Apple’s Webkit and Mozilla Firefox to build-up Chrome. What could be the idea behind Chrome? The answer lies in this statement;
Browse a Web Site offline with HTTrack – the Web Site copier
HTTrack – Web Site copier is a free, Open Source, cross-platform(Linux, Mac and Windows) offline browser utility that permits you to download an entire website to local folder on your computer. This way you can go through the website while offline or not connected. After downloading the website; including images, it reconstructs internal links for […]
