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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It maintains others like alerting users about out-of-date plugins, and built in support for Personas.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
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Adobe AIR gets a major upgrade as it moves to version 2.0. This is still a beta release, but a beta worth trying given the many improvements this beta has with respect to Adobe AIR 1.0. Despite the many flaws in version 1.0 it still succeeded in pushing to our desktops great applications like the Twitter client TweetDeck. More»
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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.
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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»
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GnoMenu applications menu hits version 2.0. This new version now works on Debian and Suse Linux desktops. It comes with lots of bug fixes, speed improvements, and new features. GnoMenu 2.0 has two kick-ass features. It can now be launched from AWN and, you can access your Firefox, Opera, Chromium bookmarks, and that of other browsers like Epiphany, Mclassori, Konkeror directly from this application. More»
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