Planet Ubuntu NewsPosted by Peng on 30 April 2008
A post on the Mozilla WebDev blog this morning reports an update coming to Addons.Mozilla.org this Thursday. It looks like they’re fixing several of the bugs that made me detest the site so much when version 3.4 was rolled out. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 23 April 2008
[Updated to correct the version of Firefox included in Hardy. My bad. - Peng]
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS “Hardy Heron” will be released tomorrow, and there are a lot of reasons to rejoice (DesktopLinux.com has a nice article on the new release). But before you accept that distribution upgrade there are some things you need to do. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 22 April 2008
While catching up on the posts on Planet Ubuntu I came across an interesting link from Nick Ali, “An Apple User Tries Ubuntu.” What I wasn’t prepared for is how happy this Mac guy was with Ubuntu, and I’d be willing to bet he doesn’t even know about Mac4Lin yet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 17 April 2008
There’s a new security and stability upgrade for Firefox 2. The biggest change is that a JavaScript scurity issue has been fixed, but you should definitely take the update if you’re running Firefox 2. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 28 March 2008
Mozilla unveiled a new version of their add-ons site the other day, and yet neither Peng nor I have written anything about it. Is it an inadvertent slip due to the demands of Real Life or so we have something against the update? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 26 March 2008
No, it’s not news that Firefox 3 has a release date, or that Firefox 3 Beta 5 is out (although that’s coming soon). No, this is the news that Firefox 2.0.0.13 is now out with security and stability updates for users on the Linux, Mac OSX and Windows platforms. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 13 March 2008
Many people around the Wide Wide World of Web have commented on how much faster Firefox 3 is than Firefox 2. What you may be interested in finding out is why it’s so much faster. And it’s not just because so many add-ons still have to be updated to be Firefox 3 compatible. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 2 March 2008
Two pieces of software got updates in the past few days or so and I wanted to make sure our readers knew about them. The first is an upgrade for the Pidgin instant messaging client, and the second is more if a release announcement than an update as EnvyNG is now available for people testing Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 28 February 2008
Sunday I blogged about the upcoming EnvyNG for Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”, and the developer has rolled out an update to Envy Legacy to get things ready for the release of EnvyNG. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Peng on 28 February 2008
While most of us have no use for the DOM Inspector for Mozilla Firefox, web designers and other programmers have come to love it. Unfortunately Mozilla decided that they would stop including it beginning with the upcoming beta four for Firefox 3. Read the rest of this entry »
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