Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection Now Available for Download

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Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6.4, the latest security and stability release for Firefox. This release provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users by isolating third-party plugins when they crash. The feature is like that in Google Chrome as it runs plugins in their own process to increase browser stability and security.

Out-of-process plugins are enabled by default and make sure that a crashing plugin will not crash the browser itself as well. Firefox can now prevents Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight crashes from bringing down your entire browser on Windows and Linux computers just like Google Chrome does. Read the Crash Protection FAQ for more detailed information about this new feature. [Read more...]

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VLC Media Player 1.1.0 “The Luggage”: Features Plugins, Extensions, GPU Acceleration and More

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VLC Media Player is one of the best media player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platform and its new avatar is even better. VLC Media Player is updated to version 1.1.0, adding many new features like extensions, new user interface, support for GPU acceleration among others. If you are still living under the rock and is unaware of what VLC Media Player is, well:

VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. It is one of the most platform-independent media players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, and BSD.

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Mozilla Firefox 64-bit Builds, Linux, Mac, Windows, Download

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Users of 64-bit operating system who always wanted to use a 64-bit edition of the popular web browser Firefox were previously restricted to using only the builds provided by their operating systems or, the ones available through the Mozilla-x86-64 project. Mozilla Firefox 64-bit builds for Linux, Mac and Windows is now available on the official Firefox Nightly FTP server. Mozilla plans to distribute the final version of Firefox 64-bit editions with the release of Firefox 4 later this year.

If you install the experimental version of Firefox 64-bit you will notice that most of the browser plugins are not compatible and only Java and a non-final Flash version are being supported. [Read more...]

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Google Chrome Stable Version for Mac & Linux Released, Download

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Google today has released the stable version of Google Chrome for Apple Mac OS and Linux users. This stable versions came after almost 6 months since the beta version of Google Chrome were released for Apple Mac OS and Linux platforms. Google, in their official announcement, has claimed that this stable version of Google Chrome web browser will be the fastest ever browser on Apple Mac OS and Linux platforms.

Today, we’re bringing all this beta goodness to the stable channel so that it’s available to all Chrome users. We’re particularly excited to bring Chrome for Mac and Linux out of beta, and introduce Chrome’s first stable release for Mac and Linux users.

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Released, Download Links

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Ubuntu Linux users eagerly waiting for the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS), and especially the different flavors of Ubuntu, viz, Xubuntu, or Kubuntu, here’s the news you have been waiting to hear. Sometime today Canonical is going to has released Ubuntu LTS 10.04.

Ubuntu’s first release was on October 20, 2004, and has been updated regularly twice a year, once in April sometime, and once in October. The releases are often timed to be released at the end of the month that it is due to come out for. I guess you didn’t knew this but FYI, Ubuntu release numbers are done taking the year and month it is released in. :) [Read more...]

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How To Create a Linux Live Bootable USB Stick using UNetbootin

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Have you ever wanted to have a portable operating system, that can live inside a small USB flash drive and you can carry it around with you? Although, this is possible and have been around for some time. It was possible for a geek to run a Linux distribution from a USB stick just like you would have run it from a Compact Disc, but this task was quite hard to do. Why? Because the process was very geeky! You had to type a lot of geeky commands in a terminal and if, somehow, you forgot one or typed something wrong, the process had to be started all over again. Well, the process is now not at all geeky with so many simple applications available that makes it possible for anyone to create a bootable USB flash drive with any of his favourite Linux Distro in it. [Read more...]

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Songbird: Open-Source, Multilingual, Cross-Platform Music Player

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Songbird is a very good alternative to media players like Windows Media Player, WinAmp, iTunes, etc. It is completely multilingual and cross-platform supported media player with loads of features and is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. The unique thing about this player is you can add add-ons to enhance the player’s functionality, just like you do in Firefox or Google Chrome. It also supports customized themes known as “Feathers“. Below, I’ll show you how to get Songbird in Windows operating system. [Read more...]

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Email Client Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 alpha (Lanikai Alpha 1) Released

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a very popular desktop email client. Thunderbird email software was recently updated by its developers, Mozilla, to version 3. The update brought many new features and notable changes like better email account integration and configuration options, global search option, etc.

The next version of Thunderbird will be version 3.1 and the first alpha release, codenamed “Lanikai Alpha 1” confirms this. Mozilla has asked interested users to test the new alpha release version of the email client and give their opinion. The developer has also warned anyone from installing the email client in a productive environment as it is an alpha version that can contain bugs and other performance issues. [Read more...]

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