While the awesome bar, download pause and resume, malware protection, the new themes, and serious performance improvements are perhaps the most representative features introduced with Firefox 3, here are some other useful ones you may not be aware:
Duplicate tabs. Press Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) while dragging a tab to create a duplicate of the dragged [...]
For those guitar player, editor, composer who can’t seem to let go of GuitarPro, you now have a great open-source alternative in Linux – TuxGuitar.
TuxGuitar is an open source tab multitrack tablature editor and player that allows you to compose songs with various instruments. After 2 years of testing and development, it has finally reached [...]
Adobe launched its second beta of Flash Player 10, codenamed “Astro,” last Wednesday. Astro adds a bunch of helpful new features including Linux support, 3D animation and embedded photo editing tools (called Pixel Bender).
New features in beta 2 include sound APIs and advanced layering of DOM elements (JavaScript pull-down menus appear on top of Flash [...]
Home Automation is anything that your home does for you automatically to make living there more enjoyable or productive. It covers many areas, including remote and timed control of lights and electrical home appliances, distributed media services, and communication. Over the last 10 years, many hardware manufacturers have presented their own proprietary solutions to these [...]
Mozilla’s chairman explains why mobile devices need an open-source browser.
There’s no doubt that it’s getting easier to access the Web on a mobile device. Thanks to the iPhone and Apple’s Web browser, Safari, millions of people feel as though they finally have the Internet in their pocket. But there’s still a lot of work that [...]
The K Desktop Environment, or KDE, is best known as a user interface and software suite for Linux. But for the past few months a team of developers has been hard at work porting KDE applications to Windows.
A few weeks ago, the developers of KOffice, an open source suit of office applications released KOffice 2.0 [...]
Sometimes it may be necessary to view the hardware information of a server, laptop or desktop without opening it’s cover. In this post, I’ll explain how to use dmidecode Linux command to get the hardware and BIOS information of the server. DMI stands for Desktop Management interface and SMBIOS stands for System Management BIOS. dmidecode [...]
With Firefox 3, you can easily select multiple and non-consecutive pieces of text from a web page as shown in this GIF screencast.
The secret is the Ctrl key. Select a line in Firefox with your mouse and then press the Ctrl key before selecting the second line.
Unlike other browsers like IE or Opera, Firefox will [...]
As for me, I really like the new feature that address bar has to offer, but others may not and even get frustrated. If you like to stop Firefox 3 from displaying bookmarks in the address bar alongside search history, here are the possible options:
Option A: Disable autocomplete drop-down entirely
Use this if you don’t want [...]
Linux is a hacker’s dream computer operating system. It supports tons of tools and utilities for cracking passwords, scanning network vulnerabilities, and detecting possible intrusions. I have here a collection of 10 of the best hacking and security software tools for Linux. Please always keep in mind that these tools are not meant to harm, [...]
Different GNU/Linux distributions provide incompatible systems for package management, and to date no one has quite figured out a foolproof way to get the best of them all. But where the alien utility tries to convert between major package formats, and Smart and Klik try to imagine new, universal forms of software installation, PackageKit has [...]
The recent CPUs have a feature which let them scale their operating frequency (changing a voltage power supply input) according to the system/user needs. This way, when the entire processor resources are not needed, the system can greatly reduces the overall power consumption, lowering temperatures and fan speed)
This post addresses the frequency scaling setup in Linux.
In the last few days I managed to install openSUSE 11.0 on more than 6 desktops, helping my friends on setting up the distribution, and on one of them I encountered a strange problem, running KDE 4.0. The problem occurred with the Audigy 2 ZS card, same as the one I have. From forums I [...]
There has been a whole lot of buzz about Funambol since the WWDC keynote, mostly touting the open-source offering as a wonderful free alternative to MobileMe. MobileMe, in case you’ve just awoken from a coma, is Apple’s sync everything everywhere solution.
Funambol offers open-source mobile syncing software for email, contacts and calendars. It works with Exchange, Domino, [...]
“Mozilla, which makes the Web browser, served up more than 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours, according to CEO John Lilly’s blog. At the height of the Firefox frenzy, Mozilla logged 17,000 downloads per minute, or 283 per second, and people in over 200 countries acquired the new software. The launch, planned for 10 a.m. [...]
“OpenSUSE is powerful, and improvements in usability, performance and stability should attract and win back users from other Linux distributions.”
“OpenSUSE has always been an odd sort of Linux distribution. It’s always been reasonably user friendly, very stable, and quite nicely pulled off the not-so-easy task of being good for new users while offering advanced and [...]
Mozilla Mac developer Josh Aas has written a weblog post discussing some of the under-the-hood improvements specific to the Mac OS X version of Mozilla Firefox 3.
Josh describes how Firefox 3 has largely switched from Apple’s legacy Carbon API (initially created to make it easier for developers to migrate OS 9 applications to OS X) [...]
The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever since. Over the years, ports for other Unixes have been added, along with [...]
Screenie a small tool to allow you to compose a fancy and stylish screenshots. It is cross-platform (for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X) and very easy to use. You will have an impressive screenshot in just one minute! Not much to say here, as I found this cool utility on Google Code which can [...]
If you were waiting for Firefox 3.0, be glad, as the wait is now over! The final release is available for download, and you probably want to help Mozilla set that world record, so start downloading!
Review: Firefox 3 Versus Internet Explorer
Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughts
First Look at Firefox 3.0 for Linux
Firefox 3 launches today; [...]
Just few hours left before 4.0 is officially announced. In the mean time check out the following links:
Will Linux Users Miss Out on Firefox 3?
Mozilla prepares for Firefox 3 release and plans for 3.1
Google to Nix Browser Sync Firefox Extension
Firefox extensions to bring back the dead
Polishing the Firefox 3.0 Download Pledge
Firefox 3 Tip: How To [...]
Aza Raskin, one of the human interface experts hired last year by Mozilla, has released a five minutes video of a very early prototype of what Firefox Mobile’s interface may look like.
As you can see in the video below, the design aims to overcome two of the most common limitations in mobile devices: a small [...]
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