Mozilla has launched Mozilla Marketplace,an early version of an app store for web-based apps which can be installed on a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. You will need to install the latest Firefox 16 Nightly build in order to try the Marketplace. There are fewer than 200 apps now.
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Mozilla Firefox 15 Aurora is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this aurora?
Preliminary native PDF support
Support for SPDY networking protocol v3
Improvements around memory leaks caused by some add-ons
JavaScript debugger integrated into developer tools
New layout view added to Inspector
The CSS word-break property has been implemented.
New responsive design tool allows web developers to switch between desktop and mobile views of sites
Native support for the Opus audio codec added
The source element now supports the media attribute
The audio and video elements now support the played attribute
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Mozilla Firefox 14 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing.What’s new in
this beta version?
Google searches now utilize HTTPS
Full screen support for Mac OS X Lion implemented
Plugins can now be configured to only load on click (requires an about:config change)
The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
Improved site identity manager, to prevent spoofing of an SSL connection with favicons
Pointer Lock API implemented
New API to prevent your display from sleeping
New text-transform and font-variant CSS improvements for Turkic languages and Greek
Fixed:OS X – nsCocoaWindow::ConstrainPosition uses wrong screen in multi-display setup
Fixed:CSS – hover regression when an element’s class name is set by Javascript
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Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.2 is now available for download.Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier.
what’s new in this version?
Fixes:
Integration with Ubuntu’s System Settings app
Invalid values for resetting fonts
Ubuntu Tweak reported a negative number of bytes for removing old kernels
Pressed the file manager, an error message appears
crash while searching for old kernels to clean
ubuntu tweack “miscellaneous” crash
Recently Used should not display the items doesn’t work for current desktop
Janitor tab is empty
Crash while trying to add a custom command in File Type Manager
Click on Sessing module generates this module encountered an error while loading
Houve erro ao carregar o modulo.
NameError in utils.walk_directories
Font settings are not displayed in gnome-fallback session
launching desktop icond from within ubuntu tweak
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KDE 4.8.4 is now available for download.This is a bug fix release.
kdeui:
Do not show email icon in the About dialog if the author has no email associated.
khtml:
Various rendering fixes for select elements (combobox + listview).
Fix a segmentation fault caused by duplicated mouse move events.
KAlarm:
Fix crash when saving new alarm.
Kmail:
Save size of message/mime splitter on size change.
KGpg:
Do not refresh keys that are unchanged after download from keyserver.
Prevent that a key shows up twice after reloading it from keyserver.
And Kwin,dolphin fixes.
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Wine 1.5.6 is now available for download. Wine is a free software that allows users to install and run Windows software on other operating systems.
What’s new in this version?
Automatic installation of the Mono add-on package.
Control panel applet for joysticks.
Device bitmap rendering now done through the DIB engine.
Support for video rendering through DirectX (VMR-9).
First steps towards a D3D shader compiler.
Build fixes for DragonFly BSD.
Various bug fixes
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Opera 12.00 RC is now available for download and testing.
Some new features in Opera 12.00
Quick startup with a smarter tab-loading sequence
Faster page loading, even for secure webpages
64-bit support for Windows and Mac
Smooth and stable browsing, thanks to support for out-of-process plug-ins
New lightweight themes
Redesigned security badges
Right-to-left scripts support
Experimental hardware acceleration WebGL support
New web standards support
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Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this release.
Linux Kernel 3.4
Firefox 14 beta
GCC 4.7
Python 3.0
single 800MB image usable on a USB disk or a DVD
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XAMPP 1.8.0 Beta 7 is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this beta?
Windows:
Apache (2.4.2)
MySQL (5.5.25)
PHP (5.4.3)
phpMyAdmin (3.5.1)
OpenSSL (1.0.1c)
XAMPP Control Panel (3.0.11)
Strawberry Perl (5.16.0.1 portable)
Added msvcr100.dll
Linux:
Apache (2.4.2)
MySQL (5.5.25)
PHP (5.4.3)
phpMyAdmin (3.5.1)
OpenSSL (1.0.1c)
Perl (5.14.2)
ProFTPD (1.3.4a)
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Bing has announced a partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica to integrate Britannica Online answers directly in the Bing results page.The answer from Britannica Encyclopedia provides a quick overview of the subject, a thumbnail image, and useful facts and figures making it easier than ever to get trusted content in search.