Thunderbird 5.0 beta was released few days ago, and it has the following changes: New Addons Manager and extension management API (user interface will be changed before final release) Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows Revised account creation wizard, offering improved set-up Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments New troubleshooting […]

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The Firefox 4 stable is coming with a new interface, HTML5 support, 3D on the web, faster startup times and graphics rendering, and other goodness. Although the official site has not yet announced this final release, ftp downloads has come out. See what’s new in Firefox 4: Download Firefox4 via ftp: Firefox4.tar.bz2 for Linux 32-bit […]

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Google Chrome browser’s built-in auto-updated adobe flash is more recent than can be downloaded individually due to the partnership between Google and Adobe. If you prefer Ubuntu default Firefox web browser, it is easy to use the Chrome browser’s built-in flash in Firefox although it requires Google Chrome installed. Just go to www.google.com/chrome and download […]

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Flashget for Linux 1.0.2 has released with BT/7.23 and 64-bit system support.If you used to be a Windows user,you might would like to install and configure Flashget in your Ubuntu machine. Install Flashget: Ubuntu user can download the deb package and double-click to install,then there should be a launcher “FlashGet” in Applications->Internet menu. Source Package:http://bbs.flashget.com/download/flashget-1.0.2-0_en.tar.gz […]

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I have written a tutorial about how to install Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 pre in Ubuntu few days ago.I think here is a permanent way to upgrade or install the most recent Firefox release or beta release,and it is Ubuntuzilla. Ubuntuzilla is a python script for Ubuntu user to easy-download and install the latest stable […]

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Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 Pre has been released.If you want to test the latest Mozilla Firefox beta release in Ubuntu,you can add ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa into your repository.It should add the latest packages as quickly as possible. Open up a terminal window from Applications->Accessories menu and run this command to add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository […]

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If you have been using Firefox for a while then you might encounter this frequently asked problem.Turn off the address bar drop-down list in Firefox to prevent your browsing history being known by others.Here is an easy way that just set the number of the addresses in drop-down list to 0 and it won’t show […]

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Lightspark is another open-source Flash Player for Linux.Compared to Adobe Flash Player,Gnash and swfdec,Light also has following features: * JIT compilation of ActionScript to native x86 bytecode using LLVM * Hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shaders (GLSL) * Very good and robust support for current-generation ActionScript 3 * A new, clean, codebase exploiting multithreading and […]

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You may want to note something useful with Tomboy when you’re browsing the web,it is inconvenient to copy and paste again and again. Tomfox is a firefox addon that adds a “Create Tomboy Note” option to the right click menu. Users can send a selected piece of text to a Tomboy note directly from within […]

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If your Firefox insists on doing huge amounts of I/O when closing, as well as acts slow when using the awesomebar,you can try this great tip original from:http://weblog.savanne.be/153-performance-tip-of-the-day First,close down your Firefox completely and try following in Applications->Accessories->Terminal: for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f ‘VACUUM;’; done this command just compacts your SQLite databases and […]

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