Category: News
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Firefox 130: Exciting Overscroll Animations for Linux Users and Innovations from Firefox Labs
With Firefox 129 rolling out today to users worldwide on all supported platforms, Mozilla has promoted the upcoming release, Firefox 130, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to look at the new features and improvements. Firefox 130 looks to be another small summer update that promises to enable overscroll animations on…
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What’s New in Firefox 129: Tab Wallpapers and Enhanced Reader View
Mozilla Firefox 129 is now available for download, and it comes with a couple of features that customization fans are sure to enjoy. It’s been 4 weeks since Firefox 128 introduced a unified cookie, cache, and data clearing experience, the ability to translate portions of text on a web page, and a new privacy-respecting ‘alternative…
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Mozilla Firefox 129 Released: New Features and Improvements You Need to Know
The Mozilla Firefox 129 open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on August 6th, 2024, so it’s time to look at the new features and improvements. Mozilla Firefox 129 is a minor update that only improves the Reader View with a “Text and layout” menu that…
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GNOME Introduces Official Extension to Support Legacy Tray Icons
As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell” that are developed and maintained by GNOME developers. Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions that use GNOME Shell, doesn’t…
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: Key Highlights for August 4th, 2024
The 199th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 4th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here. Thank you! I want to thank all the people who sent us…
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Amarok 3.1 Released: Enhanced Last.FM Integration, Qt 6 Preparation, and More Exciting Updates
A new version of the Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download. Amarok 3.1 arrives three months after Amarok 3.0, which was the first release in nearly 6 years and saw the developers complete their port to Qt 5 (which receives further polish here, in 3.1). With Qt 6 now out, work to port…
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PeaZip 9.9: New Internal Drag and Drop Features Enhance the Open-Source Archive Manager
PeaZip 9.9 has been released today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform file compression and encryption software featuring both GTK and Qt graphical user interfaces. Highlights of PeaZip 9.9 include support for performing internal drag-and-drop extraction from the file browser/archive browser to the sidebar that shows the Bookmarks, History, and filesystem tree views. Users will…
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Linux Kernel 6.9 EOL: Mandatory Upgrade to Kernel 6.10 for Continued Support
This is your friendly reminder that the Linux 6.9 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life and that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 6.10 as soon as possible. “This branch is now end-of-life and everyone should move to the 6.10.y branch now – Greg Kroah-Hartman.” Linux kernel 6.9 was released…
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Firefox Nightly Enhances Usability with Improved Picture-in-Picture Mode
The latest Firefox Nightly build introduces a feature that significantly enhances its picture-in-picture (PIP) functionality — and I’m absolutely loving it! In the current stable versions of Firefox, you can pop out video content from supported websites like YouTube and Amazon Prime manually by clicking a button. This allows you to continue watching content in…
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Chrome on Linux: 3 Exciting New AI Features You Need to Know About
Google has announced a clutch of new AI-powered features have begun rolling out to users of Chrome on Windows, macOS, and —for once!— Linux. Chrome’s Vice President Parisa Tabriz unveiled the trio of AI features, which are all powered by the latest Google Gemini AI models, on The Keyword blog today, saying: – We’re making…