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.
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Posted on September 1st, 2010 by kate.p in Applications | 32 commentsFirefox 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).
Linux Portable Apps
Posted on July 21st, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 1 comment
Linux portable applications run from removable media like USB drives, CD or similar without installation. Just imagine you copy pidgin IM client to USB flash drive and can use it on any Linux distribution including Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva whatever: no need to find pidgin package for specific distribution, no need to install it as binary .deb or .rpm or compile it from sources (yes, I know people who still compile pidgin from tag.gz sources), no need to gain root rights for installation. Just download one of Linux portable apps, copy it to USB and run it anywhere!
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.
Instantbird 0.2: Mozilla Powered IM Client for your Ubuntu
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by kate.p in News | 2 comments
Instantbird is one more multi-platform instant messenger for your Ubuntu but powered and supported by Mozilla. This IM client is based on Firefox and Pidgin code so it makes it possible to chat using multiple protocols including MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, GTalk and others, open Firefox-like tabs while chatting with friends and install various extensions. After three years (!!!) of development Instantbird is now available as latest 0.2 version. See below how to install it in Ubuntu.
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 2 comments
Java is a programming language that was developed by Sun Microsystems (it was acquired by Oracle Corporation). The major characteristics of Java is the portability meaning that the applications written in Java are cross-platform by default so can be run seamlessly on Windows, MAC OS X and Linux including Ubuntu. It is required to have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your Ubuntu system to run Java programs or visit web sites with Java applets. See below how to get JRE installed and also how to test Java/JRE in Ubuntu.
Try Firefox 4 in Ubuntu
Posted on July 5th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 5 commentsCurrently Firefox 4 (codename Minefield) is available only in testing branch of Mozilla’s software (today is 5 July 2010). This is because the fact Firefox 4 isn’t officially released yet. At the same time it is possible to try it out using one of Mozilla’s nightly builds available at nightly.mozilla.org without breaking stable Firefox you have as primary in your Ubuntu. Below in this post you can see how to do it.
Update: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 was released on 6th July 2010 so you can download it also from Mozilla’s all beta page and also look through Firefox 4.0b1 release notes. There is still no deb packages available.
Next Update: Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 was released including Firefox Panorama feature and you can download it also from Mozilla’s all beta page, release notes are here.
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.
