Window, Mac, Linux: The famous Greasemonkey user script Greased Lightbox has been compiled to a Firefox extension for Firefox 2, 3 and higher – but preserves its name and functions. Greased Lightbox Firefox extension like the user script enhances browsing on image web sites like Google Images, Flickr, MySpace, deviantART, and more. To try it, install the add-on, move to Google images and search for “whatever”, click on an image and use the left and right arrow keys to move from one image to another on the same page. More»
Amongst the various fixes for all platforms;
– the “Removal Item” from the download item context menu has been taken-off
– Omnibox, the combined search and address bar now understands Zeroconf .local hosts,
the Linux version gained a fix that makes it possible for Chrome’s extension shelf to use Linux GTK themes.
To set your Chrome for Linux Dev Channel to use GTK Theme Colors, go to Options -> Personal Stuff -> Set to GTK+ theme. Both the text and background should now come from the GTK theme, unlike before.
The “Other bookmarks” link is no longer cut-off in non-English Chromes for Linux, like the German version that saw the “Other bookmarks” being truncated instead of being re-sized.
Lastly, Applications shortcuts now work and use proper icon.
As concerns Chrome for Windows: The Native Client (“Native Client is an open-source technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps”.) is now built into the renderer but disabled by default. To enable it use the switch chrome.exe --internal-nacl. But a warning note says that, for now, using --internal-nacl disables the Google Chrome sandbox. So its recommend to run Google Chrome with this flag only for testing Native Client and not for regular web browsing.
Chrome for Windows also gets the Extensions menu item in the ‘wrench’ menu.
What is Google Wave and why use it? Yes I know, these are two big questions. This two-minute video by Google tries to make things clearer, not every thing, as the video explains only 3.5 percent of Google Wave says TechCrunch. My guess is Google is using the email part of the story as a bait, the rest of wrapped story gradually unfold.
Mozilla Lab has released a new version of the Firefox add-on Personas -- that brings on-the-fly lightweight “Skins”to your Firefox web browser. Personas v1.3 adds a new curious feature: “Random Selection from Favorites” (shown on screenshot) that lets you to randomly wear your favorite skins on your Firefox browser.
To use this feature, you’ll have to get a Personas account, then log-in, select your favorite Personas from a gallery of nearly 30,000 designs, then tell Personas to randomly dress-up your browser with your favorite Personas one at a time or periodically pick one at random! More»
Just a few screenshots of the recently released Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta. Particular interest was paclass on the new features in this release, like the Ubuntu Software Center, the new in-built Wallpapers (backgrounds) and Ubuntu One. This Linux operating system is a free download for Intel x86 and 64-bit AMD64 PCs.
Fast Boot-up – The first surprise, right from the start. Ubuntu 9.10 is a quick boot-up
