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Firefox 3.7 nightly ‘Tabs on top’ option

By • Apr 12th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source

The unsettled toddler at Mozilla that keeps playing with Firefox 3.7 interface has pushed a ‘Tabs on top’ option into FF 3.7 nightly – and that’s all for now. Right-click on the ‘Navigation Toolbar’ and enable ‘Tabs on top’ to move the tabs toolbar above the navigation toolbar, as shown in the screenshot above. To […]

Ubuntu One Music Store for Banshee

By • Apr 10th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’ Beta 2 users can now enjoy the Ubuntu One Music Store from within the open source, cross-platform media player Banshee. You simply have to install this plug-in in a Terminal: sudo apt-get install banshee-extension-ubuntuonemusicstore and then launch Banshee. Now go to the Edit -> Preferences -> Extensions and enable ‘Ubuntu One […]

Firefox 3.6.3 ‘Lorentz’ Runs Plug-ins in Separate Processes

By • Apr 9th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

The bottom-line is when the Flash plug-in crashes or hangs, (in Linux it does so often), it won’t bring down your Firefox browser anymore. Firefox 3.6.3 codenamed Lorentz handles Adobe Flash plug-in like Google Chrome browser. YouTube fans, download and try this experimental beta release, you’ll quickly notice the difference – when flash goes down, […]

Songbird 1.8 ‘Orbital’ moves to Gecko 1.9.2, Namoroka

By • Apr 8th, 2010 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

After dropping Linux support, the Songbird team has gone back to work, cause it takes only hard work to change the underlying layout engine, from the Gecko 1.9.0-based platform to Mozilla’s latest platform release, Gecko 1.9.2 a.k.a Namoroka. As the developers themselves note, “transitioning to a newer version of the Mozilla platform is a complicated […]

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 packs GNOME 2.30

By • Apr 8th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

The second and final beta of Ubuntu ‘Lucid Lynx’ 10.04 LTS has been released. If you’ve got a partition with Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 installed, then updates will soon be available via the Update Manager. Whats comes in this new pack: Well easy to verify is the presence of Gnome 2.30 desktop environment that comes […]