Open-Source
Windows, Mac, Linux: Firefox 3.6 beta 3 bundles up over 80 bug fixes from the last beta but at the same time it drops some of its marvels like tab preview.
It maintains others like alerting users about out-of-date plugins, and built in support for Personas. This is certainly the fastest of the 3 betas released so far, it is released in 60 different languages and will certainly undergo many more changes before the first release candidate.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 release notes
Posted in Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows | Comments Off on Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 3
Windows: Sumatra, the lightweight, open source PDF reader has reached version 1.0. This free PDF reader for Windows only made its way into the PDF-world back in 2008 and (was mentioned on this blog) immediately became an alternative to the rather bulky Adobe Reader (with its boring updates).
Sumatra focuses mainly on PDF viewing, it takes less than 3 seconds to launch a 20 page PDF document. Version 1.0 is a major landmark, it comes with lots of small bug fixes to complete version 0.9.4 that saw improvements such as; PDF compatibility, SyncTex, and a polished User Interface amongst others.
Sumatra PDF power users will find the keyboard shortcuts very useful. Shift Ctrl + for example is certainly faster to do than View -> Rotate right
Download Sumatra PDF 1.0 for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7.
Posted in Open-Source, Windows | 3 Comments »
The Fedora project is very proud to present their latest innovative work, Fedora 12. This free and open source Linux operating system with its six months release cycle
consider Fedora 12 their greatest release ever.
What’s new in Fedora 12; More»
Posted in Linux Distros, Open-Source | 1 Comment »
Chromium builds for Linux recently got Bookmark Sync, Google Chrome for Linux followed suit by updating to Google Chrome 4.0.249.0 builds with built-in bookmark sync.
Like with Chromium you’ll have to add --enable-sync to your launching command from the command-line to enable “Sync my bookmarks” in the wrench.
Your bookmarks will also be synced to a folder in Google Docs, so get an account if you don’t have one.
Posted in Browsers, Open-Source, Ubuntu | 7 Comments »
For Windows, Mac and Linux: Mozilla made sync that comes in the form of an extension for Firefox and Fennec (Mozilla’s mobile version of Firefox) browsers is now close to version 1.0. Weave Sync add-on v1.0 tries to close the gab between it and more popular Xmarks by adding features already present in the latter. More»
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows | Comments Off on Weave Sync 1.0 Beta 1 now available for Download
