The first beta of the up coming open source operating system Ubuntu 10.04 has been released. Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 is released one day late, it was supposed to be out yesterday 18th March, but due to some last minute issues its release was pushed to today. Grab it while its hot and enjoy its completely new default “Light” theme, new logo, boot splash and new in-builts like Gwibber – A Fresh Look for Ubuntu
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CheckPlaces Firefox extension was originally built to clean-up your Firefox bookmarks by detecting and deleting duplicate bookmarks, empty folders and dead or failed (invalid) web pages. CheckPlaces version 2.1 now has the option to compact and optimize your Firefox databases, vacuuming is now part and parcel of this must-have Firefox extension. More»
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Mozilla has announced the end of the Firefox 3.0.x series, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x, this means Firefox 3.0.19 will be the last the last security and stability update to of that series.
Firefox 3.0 was released 2 years ago, in June 2008. Its time to embrace Firefox 3.5.x and 3.6 branches of the open source web browser. According to the Mozilla developer’s weekly meeting notes Firefox 3.0.19 update is estimated to be released on the 30th of March.
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That Google Chrome is sometimes is a memory hog is a well known fact, but what Linux users of Chrome and Chromium might have missed is that Dev Channels of these browsers like their Windows counterpart now have a memory purger that when used in some cases drastically reduces the memory in use by Chrome/Chromium.
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Mozilla has dropped support for the 1.x series of its all-in-one internet application suite, SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey 1.0 was released four years ago and v1.1 came a year later (v.1.1 is three years old). Today, SeaMonkey project hasdecided to discontinue the 1.x series in favor of the more modern and secure SeaMonkey 2.x. More»
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