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Windows-only: PortableApps.com has quickly come out with the portable edition of Mozilla Firefox 3.5, so-called Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.5.
The famous duo, Mozilla Firefox browser and PortableApps.com launcher are by now standards in the techie world. Together, they come to your aclass where there is no doctor sorry Firefox.
They come along with your bookmarks, settings and extensions. And when it’s time to go, they (Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition) leave behind no personal information on the machine you ran it on.
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Chritter is a Google Chrome extension that places non-intrusive Twitter updates on your Chrome Status Bar. So whilst navigating with your Chrome Browser, Twitter updates appear down there and keep you informed on what your contacts are up to. More»
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Firefox 3.5 Preview is not a direct download, you can obtain it via an update of Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, from the Help -> Check For Updates menu. Firefox 3.5 preview release aims at fixing stability and JavaScript issues. It also offers better support for Ogg-coded audio and video codecs.
Safari 4 Browser Released: Safari 4 leaves beta and becomes a full release for Pc and Mac. It claims to “The world’s fastest browser”when compare to others like IE8 (Opera also claims to be the fastest browser around). Download
AbiWord v2.7.3 Released: AbiWord, the Microsoft Word open source alternative gradually moves towards the version 2.8 landmark. The changes from v2.7.2 to v2.7.3 include, amongst others: “Make AbiWord work on Maemo again, and improve its interface for the small form factor Make work AbiWord on Maemo again, and improve its interface for the small form factor” – – More
GRUB 2 now default for new installations: The boot loader of existing installations will not be modified, not even when you upgrade to new versions of GRUB Legacy. But if you’re eager to try GRUB 2 then get instructions Here. Read-on
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“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, then hit the direct download link and get the .Deb file.
Download Google Chrome – – for Ubuntu/Debian
via [The Chromium Blog ]
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If you like the Facebook type of chat and want something similar on your website, then this jQuery chat module is exactly what you are looking for. Though it lacks rosters, you can’t see which users are online, it is rather easy to implement.
[update] How it effectively functions, I can’t say. I haven’t tested it (but the comments on the developer’s site are comportable). More»
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