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Tweet Will IE8 Be Microsoft’s Last Explorer? Could the eighth edition of Microsoft Internet Explorer really be the last of its breed? That’s the rumor, anyway. The prospect has some in the FOSS community excited and eager to bid the browser a fond good riddance, though others see it as just another ploy to get [...]

Tweet Updating software in Linux: four strikes and you’re out Since a couple Computerworld bloggers have been discussing installing software in Linux, I’d thought I’d chime in. Preston Gralla lived with Linux for a couple weeks and complained about the software update process. This was a small part of his story but it generated enough [...]

Tweet Friendbar Makes Twitter and Facebook Updates Easy in Firefox Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Friendbar is a toolbar add-on for Firefox that can rapidly update your Facebook or Twitter statuses, and show a ticker-style stream of your friends’ own text and photos. Friendbar continuously updates you on the status of people in your Facebook and Twitter [...]

Tweet Firefox 3.1 beta cycle pushed back to pack in more features Mozilla has decided to extend development time of Firefox 3.1 by four weeks to expand the scope of features in the point release. With that, the team expects the code for beta 1 to freeze September 30 and the code freeze for beta [...]

Tweet Firefox Suffers Chrome’s Bite Launched last week, Google’s Chrome web browser is already making inroads into Firefox’s popularity, something that we feared A comparison of the past two weeks of traffic on Tectonic.co.za – a period that covers Chrome’s launch – shows that in the week of September 1 to 8 Chrome jumped from [...]