The latest stable version of the most inspirational music player for Ubuntu has been finally released. Banshee 1.8 comes with dramatical list of improvements, changes and bugfixes including official support of Amazon MP3 store, Miro Podcasts, reworked Apple devices support and much more. See below for more details.
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Posted on September 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, News | 0 commentsFirefox 4 vs. Firefox 3 — Visible Differences
Posted on September 1st, 2010 by kate.p in Applications | 32 comments
There is rather lively buzz around Mozilla Firefox 4 future release that should happen soon and of course meet all the expectations of the community and millions of Firefox users. But what do they all expect to see in the latest version and why its long-awaited final release should be a great deal? Let’s take a look at visible differences between future Firefox 4 and usual Firefox 3 to understand if Mozilla is going to beat upcoming Internet Explorer 9 finally by ease of use and functionality or still stay at the second stage of web browsers Olympus.
Firefox Panorama — New Firefox 4 Beta Feature
Posted on August 25th, 2010 by kate.p in News | 2 commentsIf you look through features list of the latest Firefox 4 Beta you will definitely notice that Mozilla reworked tabs in Firefox dramatically. First of all it concerns new tabs location (now they are shown above address bar just like in Google Chrome). But the latest announced and long-awaited feature is Firefox Panorama (formerly known as Tabs Candy) — this is a new approach for tab management in Firefox for organizing tabs when browsing websites.
In a few words it makes it possible to open multiple organized groups of tabs to prevent tabs chaos when you open more and more websites. Anyways it’s better to see it in action:
As before you can try the latest Firefox 4 Beta in your Ubuntu by downloading and unpacking firefox-4.0b4.tar.bz2 into, say, /usr/lib/firefox-4-testing directory (follow the post named “Try Firefox 4 in Ubuntu” to see more details on this approach).
Install Firefox 4 Beta 2 via PPA
Posted on July 19th, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 3 commentsCurrently Firefox 4.0b2 is the latest beta version of long awaited browser that is going beat Opera, Google Chrome as well as previous versions of Firefox in safety, speed and performance. There is a bunch of improvements which are already available for testing in Firefox 4 Beta 2 on Ubuntu: tabs on the top, crash protection, full webgl support, html5 video native support and many-many more. Now it is possible to install Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 in Ubuntu using PPA repository.
Make Google Chrome default browser in Ubuntu
Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 2 comments
By default Ubuntu comes with Mozilla Firefox browser that is default one so once you click web links in any Ubuntu application they are opened in Firefox. It is still brilliant browser but Google Chrome proved to be more stable, faster and smarter so it could be reasonable idea to make it default browser instead of Firefox. In order to make Google Chrome default browser in Ubuntu preform the following steps.
