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HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor project have released a beta version of HTTPS Everywhere, a new Firefox extension to encrypts the communication between your browser and the websites. Some of the sites that currently work with this … Continue reading
Contacts from Mozilla Labs
Mozilla Lab has released a new addon called Contacts. The idea of the addon is to integrate your online contacts from different sources with your browser, so you can search and browse your contacts in the browser and also let … Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.04 default search provider is Yahoo – that sucks
Canonical‘s Rick Spencer announced in a mailing list that Yahoo is going to be the default search provider in Firefox starting with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. The change is due to the revenue sharing pact that Canonical has reached with … Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 released
Ubuntu development team has released the 2nd alpha of Ubuntu 10.04, code named Lucid Lynx. It’s still a developmental version, so it’s only for testing purpose. Ubuntu 10.04 contains the following changes: Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 2 includes the latest GNOME … Continue reading
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Tagged alpha2, ATI, Firefox, GNOME, KDE, Kernel, Kubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, NVidia, Plymouth, Ubuntu 10.04
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Integrate Firefox notification with Ubuntu notification system
FirefoxNotify is a Firefox addon which integrates Firefox notifications with Linux notification system, which allows Firefox to integrate better with Linux OSes. The addon needs Galago compatible notification server which can be enabled by installing libnotify (if it’s not installed … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu
Tagged Addon, Firefox, FirefoxNotify, Galago, Linux, Notification, Ubuntu
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10 minutes experience with Kubuntu 9.10
I wanted to give Kubuntu a try in my laptop after I gave it a try and was dissatisfied and removed it when Kubuntu 9.04 was released. There were lots of bugs and for a laptop, using the widget for … Continue reading
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Tagged Arora, Firefox, KDE, Konqueror, Kubuntu 9.10, Plasma, Ubuntu 9.10
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Raindrop from Mozilla Lab
Mozilla Lab has introduced a new tool called Raindrop that integrates different messaging systems like email, Facebook, Twitter, IM etc using a web browser like Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. The project is open source and is led by Thunderbird team. … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, Mozilla Lab, Mozilla Messaging, Raindrop, Safari, Thunderbird, Twitter, Youtube
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Screwing your own products are not enough, screw other products too?
When I opened Firefox today, I saw a pop up from Firefox that informed me that it has disabled the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin and I have to restart Firefox to disable it completely. I wasn’t sure what it was, … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer World, Firefox, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation
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Firefox, Skype, OpenOffice kick Microsoft’s butt
Firefox, Skype and OpenOffice are finally cracking Microsoft‘s monopoly in the browser, instant messaging and Office software suite. According to InfoWorld, exo.preformance.network, which tracks the actual usage and configurations of thousands of PCs around the world, reported that Firefox is … Continue reading