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Thunderbird 3.1 Alpha 1 ‘Lanikai’ now Available for Download

By • Feb 5th, 2010 • Filed under: Email, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

For Windows, Mac, Linux: Thunderbird, the open source desktop e-mail client reaches another important milestone. The first alpha of Thunderbird 3.1 has just been released. The Thunderbird team wants to align its development cycle more closely with that of the Firefox web browser, so that Thunderbird can better leverage the constant stream of improvements that […]

New tab and Tab Tear Off animations for Firefox 4

By • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video, Windows

Mozilla’s Stephen Horlander that showed us some iterations of Windows design mock-ups for Firefox 4 has posted again on his personal blog a couple of animations showing what might be tab-tasks in still-to-come Firefox 4. The goals of these animations as Stephen puts it, is to give a visual clue to the functions of Tabs. […]

Chrome for Linux Dev Channel Updated to 5.0

By • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Google Chrome for Linux Dev Channel has been updated to version 5.0.307.1 with “preliminary” desktop notification support, for GTK builds of Linux only. Chrome desktop notifications in Linux uses D-BUS notifications also known as libnotify. Also, GTK+selection colors when using GTK theme mode gets noticeably better. Other adds and fixes in this update include; – […]

Chrome 4 gets 40,000 Extra Extensions [User Scripts]

By • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Many years back, Aaron Boodma wrote the Greasemonkey extension “exclusively” for Firefox, now working with Google, he has bent and twisted Greasemonkey so well that thousands of user scripts written in JavaScript now natively work in Chrome – just like any regular Chrome extension. Its a big smack to Firefox, if you consider that its […]

Chromium for Linux Daily Builds reach 5.0

By • Feb 1st, 2010 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Ubuntu

While the Dev and Beta channels are still stuck in version 4.0, Chromium for Linux Daily builds make it to version 5.0. The Daily PPA is updated more frequently than the Dev PPA, but it is completely untested, that certainly makes it more unstable and unreliable. It works and loads web pages quickly too.