p7zip is the Unix port of 7-zip, the open source file archiver that archives with a very high compression ratio. p7zip provides 7z with LZMA high-compression format and 7za. More»
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Mozilla has finallydecided to deliver a 64-bit version of Firefox to users with 64-bit operating systems. Formerly these users were restricted to Firefox 64-bit builds for Linux distributions, or untested and unoffical Windows builds at the Mozilla x86-64 web site. More»
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Desktop notifications are deployed to notify users that something important has happened in the “background”. Desktop notifications are now available to extensions in Chrome 5, which means developers can start using the notifications API in their extensions to deliver non-modal messages from web sites. Notifications from an extension have no permission prompts or infobar warnings. More»
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Mozilla has just released the first release candidate of Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. If you’re currently testing Thunderbird 3.1 then check for updates at Help -> Check for updates or download Thunderbird 3.1 RC 1 directly from the Mozilla web site. Thunderbird 3.1 RC 1 comes with improved performance to stability, memory usage, and password handling, web compatibility and sustainability. More»
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Rather than trying to create a carbon copy of the Firefox browser on the iPhone and really hope it gets accepted in the App Store, (being third-party browser that isn’t based on Apple’s Webkit browser platform), Mozilla is building an application for the iPhone, based on Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology.
Firefox Home, the new app, will give iPhone users access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. Firefox Home also incorporates Firefox’s “Awesome Bar” and its capability to remember your previous and automatically saved searches. More»
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