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Google Chrome beta for Linux officially available December 8, 2009

Posted by Sayantan in Ubuntu, browser, linux, open source, red hat.
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Google released the beta version of Chrome for Linux and Mac today. The packaged files for major distributions are availabe at http://www.google.com/chrome.
Users who were already using the dev channel version can find the beta packaged seperately in synaptic . Trying to install the beta will prompt you to uninstall the unstable version though. Try out and give your feedbacks. With extensions coming in thick and fast, personally i feel google chrome will shape up to be a great browser for the linux environment.

Along with chrome, chromium,the open source version of google chrome, also enters the beta stage.
Keep up the good work google! And the chromium devs too!

Google Gears in Firefox 3.5 July 7, 2009

Posted by Sayantan in Ubuntu, browser, firefox, linux, open source.
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For those who have been eagerly waiting for a new updated release for google gears to work with firefox 3.5 in windows , linux and macs, i have a good news for u guys.

Geza Kovacs , developer, has developed some custom versions of google gears to work with firefox 3.5. Go here for downloads

For me, the new gears works very well with gmail offline and wordpress. I am using ubuntu 9.04 with ff3.5. See the screenshots below.Screenshot-1

Screenshot-Gears - Create Desktop ShortcutScreenshot-2

Intergrate FF 3.5 into Ubuntu/Debian distros July 4, 2009

Posted by Sayantan in Ubuntu, browser, firefox, open source.
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Firefox 3.5 was released on june 30th but the is no sign of a .deb file for ubuntu/debian distros. All we can get from the daily ppa is a 3.5 prelease version ( updated until  3/07/09) . and in that facebook , yahoomail say its an old browser  and banking sites fail to determine the browser and refuse the users a login.

The commandline method below is a far better , easier and quicker method to install the latest version of firefox 3.5. This version is properly detected by the bank websites, facebook and yahoomail.

Please note: This tutorial will override the existing ff3.1 but will use the same profile and addons. Also some add-ons  esp google gears and some themes does not work with ff3.5 yet (updated 3/7/09)

Open up Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and run the following commands:

  1. cd /tmp
  2. wget "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.5&os=linux&lang=en-US"
    Note: Your download link may be different depending on your country and language. I got the link by clicking the download link, canceling  the automatic download, right-clicking the “Your download should automatically begin in a few seconds, but if not, click here” link, and selecting Copy Link Location.
  3. tar xvf firefox-*.bz2
  4. sudo cp -r firefox /usr/lib/firefox-3.5
  5. sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox.old
  6. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-3.5
  7. sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

Close Firefox and then reopen. You should now be running Firefox 3.5.

Thanks to Chris Jean for the tutorial

OMG! facebook cannot recognize FF 3.5!!!! :O July 3, 2009

Posted by Sayantan in Ubuntu, browser, firefox, linux, open source.
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Facbook terms firefox 3.5 as an old browser! This picture below speaks a thousand words. Whats ur say on this??Screenshot