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The “little red communist browser” as some call it is without doubts the browser of the moment. Yesterday, in a press release, Opera Software announced that Opera browsers exceed 100 million users – 50 million desktop users and 50 million mobile users. Well, Opera Mini, the mobile version of the Opera web browser has always been a leader in the mobile world, it market share in Africa goes over 70%, the good news for Opera fans it that Opera for Desktop is growing too on Windows, Mac and Linux computers. More»
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Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’ Beta 2 users can now enjoy the Ubuntu One Music Store from within the open source, cross-platform media player Banshee. You simply have to install this plug-in in a Terminal: sudo apt-get install banshee-extension-ubuntuonemusicstore and then launch Banshee. Now go to the Edit -> Preferences -> Extensions and enable ‘Ubuntu One Music Store’ plug-in. Now wait that Banshee be populated with music from the store.
via [Ubuntu One Blog]
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The bottom-line is when the Flash plug-in crashes or hangs, (in Linux it does so often), it won’t bring down your Firefox browser anymore. Firefox 3.6.3 codenamed Lorentz handles Adobe Flash plug-in like Google Chrome browser. YouTube fans, download and try this experimental beta release, you’ll quickly notice the difference – when flash goes down, Firefox stays up and you’ll be asked to reload the page (see screenshot above). More»
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After dropping Linux support, the Songbird team has gone back to work, cause it takes only hard work to change the underlying layout engine, from the Gecko 1.9.0-based platform to Mozilla’s latest platform release, Gecko 1.9.2 a.k.a Namoroka.
As the developers themselves note, “transitioning to a newer version of the Mozilla platform is a complicated process and a huge project in and of itself. ”
Right now Songbird 1.9.2-based builds are available to download, for testing. Nightlies are available here:
http://developer.songbirdnest.com/builds/xr192Integration/latest/
The developers hope to get enough testing and feedback before the release of Songbird version 1.8.0 ‘Orbital’.
via [Songbird Blog]
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The second and final beta of Ubuntu ‘Lucid Lynx’ 10.04 LTS has been released. If you’ve got a partition with Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 installed, then updates will soon be available via the Update Manager.
Whats comes in this new pack: Well easy to verify is the presence of Gnome 2.30 desktop environment that comes with many new exciting features, the new Ubiquity slideshow and with Google as Search Provider and not Yahoo!. Now hit the link below and download the image Ubuntu 10.04 beta 2. Using TestDrive that simply downloads the latest working ISO and turns it into a virtual machine is still a valid method to test this second and final beta. More»
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