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Firefox 3.7 nightly ‘Tabs on top’ option

  • on Mon Apr 12, 2010
Firefox 3.7 Minefield

The unsettled toddler at Mozilla that keeps playing with Firefox 3.7 interface has pushed a ‘Tabs on top’ option into FF 3.7 nightly – and that’s all for now. Right-click on the ‘Navigation Toolbar’ and enable ‘Tabs on top’ to move the tabs toolbar above the navigation toolbar, as shown in the screenshot above. To test drive this nightly, download it from Mozilla! Firefox 3.7 is still at its early stages of development, its advisable to install on non-productive systems.

Ubuntu One Music Store for Banshee

  • on Sat Apr 10, 2010
Ubuntu One Music Store for Banshee

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]

Firefox 3.6.3 ‘Lorentz’ Runs Plug-ins in Separate Processes

  • on Fri Apr 9, 2010
Firefox 3.6.4 'Lorentz'

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

Songbird 1.8 ‘Orbital’ moves to Gecko 1.9.2, Namoroka

  • on Thu Apr 8, 2010
Songbird 1.8 'Orbital'

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As the developers themselves note, “transitioning to a newer version of the Mozilla platform is a complicated process and a huge project in and of itself.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]

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 packs GNOME 2.30

  • on Thu Apr 8, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2

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