The first beta of the up coming open source operating system Ubuntu 10.04 has been released. Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 is released one day late, it was supposed to be out yesterday 18th March, but due to some last minute issues its release was pushed to today. Grab it while its hot and enjoy its completely new default “Light” theme, new logo, boot splash and new in-builts like Gwibber – A Fresh Look for Ubuntu
StumbleUpon fans now have an official toolbar for Google Chrome, its more a frame that does not break on frame-breaking web sites. The developers of Chromebar admit that the Chrome extension still has to catch-up feature wise with its Firefox counterpart, but that also depends on the predisposition of the Chrome browser. The blog post that announces the release of the StumbleUpon extension for Chrome, the developers clearly state their wish to bring Chromebar to the level of StumbleUpon add for Firefox. More
CheckPlaces Firefox extension was originally built to clean-up your Firefox bookmarks by detecting and deleting duplicate bookmarks, empty folders and dead or failed (invalid) web pages. CheckPlaces version 2.1 now has the option to compact and optimize your Firefox databases, vacuuming is now part and parcel of this must-have Firefox extension. More
Mozilla has announced the end of the Firefox 3.0.x series, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x, this means Firefox 3.0.19 will be the last the last security and stability update to of that series.
Firefox 3.0 was released 2 years ago, in June 2008. Its time to embrace Firefox 3.5.x and 3.6 branches of the open source web browser. According to the Mozilla developer’s weekly meeting notes Firefox 3.0.19 update is estimated to be released on the 30th of March.
That Google Chrome is sometimes is a memory hog is a well known fact, but what Linux users of Chrome and Chromium might have missed is that Dev Channels of these browsers like their Windows counterpart now have a memory purger that when used in some cases drastically reduces the memory in use by Chrome/Chromium.
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