Firefox 3.6.6 Updates Crash Protection Feature

Newly released Firefox 3.6.6 increases the amount of time Firefox plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated. In recently released Firefox 3.6.4 (now updated to 3.6.6) non-responsive out-of-process Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plug-ins were terminated only after 10 seconds. In Firefox 3.6.6 non-responsive plug-ins are terminated after 40 seconds, so gamers and users with older, slower computers don’t suffer premature termination of out-of-process plug-ins. Read More

Opera 10.60 leaves Beta, a RC is now available

Opera has released a release candidate of its next browser release, 10.60. Almost complete Opera 10.60 features support for royalty-free WebM video, HTML5 offline web apps, and Geolocation. This version is also the next major milestone for Linux users, since Opera is skipped an official 10.50 release for the Linux platform. Read More

Thunderbird 3.1 Final is now available for Download

Mozilla has released a major update of its desktop email client Thunderbird. This new version Thunderbird 3.1 (final) comes with several new features, already covered on this blog, and lots of bug fixes. Read More

Firefox 4 ‘Heads Up Display’ for Web Developers

When I wrote Firefox 4 begins to take shape, Heads Up Display (HUD) — for web developers wasn’t there, it was pushed in days after the post. Read More

VLC Portable 1.1.0 for your Pen Drive

VLC media player 1.1.0 with hard acceleration and WebM support was officially released yesterday for Mac, Linux and Windows OS. The no-install version for Windows platforms, a carbon copy of the original is now available for your portable drives. It takes only 21MB of your drive and can be run on systems with previous versions.

VLC Portable 1.1.0 is a free download released under the Open Source (GPL) license.

uTorrent 3.0 Alpha BitTorrent Client Released

The popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has released a preview of its next major update uTorrent 3.0. Falcon 2.1 (encrypted webUI that doesn’t require port forwarding) and standard 2.1 alphas have now been merged into uTorrent 3.0 Alpha for testing and the uTorrent 2.1 development series has been dropped. Read More

GIMP 2.6.9 Released

While waiting for the official release of Gimp 2.7 that introduces the ‘single window mode’ and other goodies, Gimp has just been updated to version 2.6.9, a regular 2.6 stable branch release with no new features but many bug fixes that handle issues in Gimp 2.6.8 such as; shared memory leaks, issues when importing PDF files with long titles, crashes when using the path tool, and more. For the complete list of changes in this version, have a look at the release notes. Binary packages for various supported platforms will soon be available at Gimp Downloads

Block adult web content with OpenDNS FamilyShield [No Install]

OpenDNS has launched an easy to setup service called FamilyShield that allows parents, administrators, users to filter web content and keep their computers free from adult web sites. This free service that needs no account to configure, no downloads or software to install works much like how OpenDNS Basic does. Read More

Mozilla finally releases Firefox 3.6.4 with Out-Of-Process Plug-ins

Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6.4 that introduces the out-of-process plug-in protection technology code-named “Lorentz”. The out-of-process plug-in protection technology already present in Google Chrome “provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plug-ins.” Read More