Ubuntu 16.04 gets a codename Xenial Xerus, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed on his personal
blog post.
Xenial Xerus is Long-Term Support (LTS) release. xenial means friendly relations between hosts
and guests and Xerus means the African ground squirrels.
Xenial Xerus is scheduled for release in April 2016.
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Mozilla firefox 41 stable is now available for download.What’s new in this firefox 42 ?
New features:
Enhance IME support on Windows (Vista +) using TSF (Text Services Framework)
Ability to set a profile picture for your Firefox Account
Firefox Hello now includes instant messaging
SVG images can be used as favicons
Improved box-shadow rendering performance
Changed from previous version:
WebRTC now requires perfect forward secrecy
WARP is disabled on Windows 7
Updates to image decoding process
Support for running animations of ‘transform’ and ‘opacity’ on the compositor thread
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Mozilla announced first public preview of Firefox browser for iOS. Now the browser is only available for users in New Zealand. The main goal of this public preview we will be collecting feedback in one country.
Main features:
Intelligent Search – provides suggested search results and the choice of search providers.
Firefox Accounts sync
Visual Tabs – keep track of your open tabs.
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Vivaldi browser Snapshot 1.0.264.3 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this Snapshot?
Private browsing – go to File -> New Private Window.
Web Panel improvements.
decreased the height of the panel title bar and an option to hide it completely.
Web panel Back and reload buttons have been combined into a home button.
removed Ctrl+Q as a shortcut for quick commands.
Added web panel context menu.
Added smooth scrolling option: Adjusted SVG viewbox.
Added Kurdish language support (KU)
Upgraded Chromium to 45.0.2454.86
And lot of fixes
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Google is celebrating 70th Anniversary of La Tomatina with a new animated doodle on its homepage. La Tomatina started the last Wednesday of August in 1945.
La Tomatina (Spanish pronunciation: [la toma?tina]) is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of
Buñol, a town located 30 km / 19 miles from the Mediterranean, in which participants throw tomatoes and
get involved in this tomato fight purely for fun. It is held on the last Wednesday of August, during the week of festivities of Buñol.
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Vivaldi browser Snapshot 1.0.252.3 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this Snapshot?
Typed History- click arrow down in the address-field—before you type anything.
Prettier Preferences- icons for each section.
Web panel reload and back buttons.
Smooth Scrolling now on by default.
Fixed: [Windows] Conflict between Chromium Browser and Vivaldi browser.
Fixed: Quick Commands no longer lists all open tabs.
Fixed: Extension’s popup is cut off if address-bar on bottom.
And lot of fixes:
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WordPress 4.3 Billie is now available for download. What’s new in this final release?
Menus in the Customizer.
Site Icons.
Comments turned off on pages.
Streamlined customizer design provides a mobile-friendly and accessible interface.
formatting shortcuts – Use asterisks to create lists and number signs to make a heading.
Password reset link.
smoother admin experience.
Vivaldi browser Snapshot 1.0.249.12 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this Snapshot?
New Web panels- websites loaded in the panel area.
Extension UI buttons- pageAction and browserAction.
Page actions – icon inside URL field
browser actions – icons to the right of the address bar.
More details in the progress bar.
Performance: tabs and bookmarks.
Chromium- 45.0.2454.43.
[Mac] Add more short-cuts to main menu.
Updating default favicon to have white fill
And lots more bug fix.
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Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 is now available for download. What’s new in this release?
Supports Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems.
Paravirtualization Support for Windows and Linux Guests.
Improved CPU Utilization
Support of USB 3.0 Devices
Bi-Directional Drag and Drop Support for Windows
Disk Image Encryption
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Vivaldi browser Snapshot 1.0.201.2 is now available for download and testing. What’s new in this Snapshot?
clearer search engine editor.
New Mouse gesture customization options.
Improve usability of adding URLs to “startup with specific pages”
Spatial navigation improvements.
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