Windows, Mac, Linux: No more bush-hunting, it is there, where its supposed to be, on Mozilla’s home page, I’m mean Firefox 3.6. Stop thinking and go get the worlds safest browser, not the IE sort of thing.
The release notes;
– Its Available in more than 70 languages – yours is certainly included,
– Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes. – Flash stops crushing my browser. More
As announced yesterday Firefox 3.6 Final has punctually been released. You can now download this new version of Firefox for your Mac, Linux or Windows platforms. The release notes are not yet available, but hey who needs it after closely following its development from the very first alpha.
Linux users (x86) can use this line of code to download and extract it into their Home folder:
wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~ | tar xj -C ~
Others;
Download Firefox 3.6 for Windows
Download Firefox 3.6 for Mac OS X
[Update] Windows download link updated.
Whats new in Firefox 3.6 – Watch this video by Mike Beltzner director of Firefox Development.
GNOME Activity Journal is a nascent but promising tool for the Gnome desktop environment (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva etc ) that provides a simple User Interface to browse and find files on your computer. More
First came the warning from the German, Australian, and French governments respectively against Internet Explorer, then came the rush to get safer web browsers like Opera and Firefox.
The graph above (from The Register) is very explicit, in Germany alone, Firefox got 300,000 extra downloads in just four days. More
A port of Google’s Android platform is now available for your x86 (32-bit) architecture PC. It is called Android-x86, and has a download-able ISO file you can grab and burn into a Live CD Linux distribution, this means you don’t have to install – with the ISO file you can run it via VirtualBox – you can as well stuck it into a USB stick. This distribution is meant mostly for Eee PC netbooks, but as already said, it also runs on other 32-bit (x86) platforms. The current stable version of Android-x86 has the Linux Kernel 2.6.29 . it is based on Android 1.6 “Donut” and supports EXT3, EXT2, NTFS and FAT32 filesystems.
Android-x86 Project – Run Android on Your PC via [Softpedia]
