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Google has released the beta version of Google Chorme - a new open source browser. Google Chrome is based on the open source web engine called Webkit, which also powers Safari browser. Some other features of Google Chrome are:

• Tabs are independent. Each tab has it's own location bar, navigation buttons etc. If one tab crashes, it won't take the entire browser down.
• Tabs can be detached and move around.
• A task manager that shows memory used, bandwidth etc for each tab.
• Opening a new tab will launch a dynamic dashboard instead of the usual
  blank page, presenting a search box, the nine most recently visited
  pages, and links to the sites you frequently search.
• Location bar (called Omnibox) searches most visited pages, history etc. similar to Firefox.
• Privacy mode, which leaves no traces of your browsing, similar to IE8.
• All popups are blocked by default. All of them are sent to the bottom right area where you can drag them out from to restore.
• Supports Prism, Google Gears.

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Mozilla Lab introduced yesterday a addon for Mozilla called Snowl. The purpose of Snowl is to integrate different messaging into the browser. It doesn't matter where messages originate. It could be RSS feed or forum or social networks or email etc. It allows a search based interface for message retrieval and browser functionality for navigating messages similar to navigating bookmarks, history etc.

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Below are the steps to use and sync Google calendar with your Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird email client.

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I use GMail Manager add-on for Firefox to access my 5 emails I have under Google's hosted accounts. For some reason, GMail Manager stopped working with hosted accounts for the past couple of weeks. GMail Manager team has released a new version couple of days back with a fix. The GMail Manager 0.5.5 includes the following fixes.

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ScribeFire is the blogging addon I use to post my blog post from my browser. This is an addon for Firefox. I'm using it for a long time. It used to be called Performancing and later changed to ScribeFire. The initial versions missed some of the features that would have been quite useful while posting, but they kept improving and have added lots of those missing features. ScribeFire 2.0 takes it to the next level with the following changes:

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IDABC reports that the European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications. The test proved that the open source configuration meets the Parliament's office requirements, but it doesn't mean they'll immediately replace the currently used system. Most of the European institutions use Microsoft product. This makes them dependent on a single supplier in a dominant position creating problems such as the accessibility of documents produced in proprietary formats and of interoperability. Using open source software will help them get rid of those issues.

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Mozilla released another version of Firefox 2.0.0.11 within 4-5 days after releasing Firefox 2.0.0.10. This release fixes some compatibility issues with some websites and extensions.

Netscape has released the first alpha version of Netscape Messenger 9. Netscape Messenger 9 is an email client based on Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 similar to Netscape browser which is based on Firefox source. Netscape Messenger 9 is available for all 3 platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). It's an alpha version, so use it with caution. Netscape Messenger is compatible with all Thunderbird 2.x addons. You can launch AOL IM directly from the messenger.

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I have subscribed to Propeller (Netscape) news feeds for sometime now. Some of those news items are spammed, I believe. When you click on the news item, it'll open a new tab or window and ask you install activex and then it tries to run activexsomething.exe file. I luckily don't use Internet Explorer. I use Firefox and Firefox won't allow you to run exe files. I forgot to take the screenshot of the spam window. I'll do it next time I hit it. One of the news item, that I believe, was spammed is shown in the screenshot below. Netscape has removed that link now (2nd screenshot). If you are reading news from Propeller, beware!!! Do not use Internet Explorer and if possible, do not use Windows.

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AOL officially released Netscape Navigator 9 yesterday. It's based on Firefox 2.0.0.7. It's available for Mac and Linux too. I'm not sure if the Windows version still carry the bloated Internet Explorer also, but the Linux version was a 9 MB download. I downloaded the file and extracted it. It created a folder called Navigator. I used Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

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