Old browsers have plagued the evolution of the web and cost web designers and developers hours in backwards comptibility work. On top of that there’s the security threat. Anyway, if you run a website or a blog, you may want to join the Push up the web campaign.
“Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users upgrade their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience and make life easier for developers out there by installing Pushup on your domain.”
The results of the “Just for Fun” Poll linux.com community have just been released. You may be wondering what some of those weird names actually mean, so here goes a short guide for those, like myself, who are not up to date with it all.
Best new Kernel Feature
Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today’s data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk. [extracted from https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page ]
Google has announced the release of a beta version of its browser Google Chrome for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuse).Here are a few facts from the Google Chrome team:
60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors
Now you can have a list of your favourite Firefox Add-ons to share. I have always tried to keep a list in my bookmarks of the Add-ons I find most useful and normally recommend to people, now life has become much easier.
Discover more of the best add-ons and organize your favourites in easy-to-manage collections. Subscribe to see how the collections you admire grow, and fans follow when you manage and update your own collections with Mozilla Firefox Add-on Collector.
You can have a look at my small collection at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/itechlog
Bringing Firefox‘s features, security, performance and ease-of-use to mobile phones. Fennec is yet in it’s Beta 1 version, it has been built on the same technology as the world famous Mozilla Firefox and has many of the same features.
The interface is very intuitive, download the emulated version to run on your PC and check out this great browser.
Watch the video overview:
Fennec Beta 1 walkthrough from Madhava Enros on Vimeo.
