Today the Mozilla Coorporation released the new version of their developed Browser Firefox 3.5. The Browser comes with multiple changes.
Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use. Some of the notable features are:
- Available in more than 70 languages.
- Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.
You can also see the full changelog here!
The Debian project announced the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename “lenny”).
This update fixes some security vulnerabilities and some other bux were fixed.
Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won’t have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.
New CD and DVD images containing updated packages and the regular installation media accompanied with the package archive respectively will be available soon at debian.org.
If you have Debian already installed, simply do a “apt-get update” and a “apt-get upgrade” to get the updated packages.
The Los Angeles Times confirms that the King of Pop, 50-year-old Michael Jackson, has died after a cardiac episode in Los Angeles. Jackson was reportedly rushed to UCLA Medical Center this afternoon; paramedics reported that Jackson was not breathing when he arrived at the hospital. NBC News and other sources have also confirmed the singer’s death.
His death comes just days before the scheduled start of his 50-date tour at London’s O2 Arena. Story developing.
The news comes as Jackson, 50, was attempting a comeback after years of tabloid headlines, most notably his trial and acquittal on child molestation charges.
In May, The Times reported that Jackson had rented the Bel-Air residence and was rehearsing for a series of 50 sold-out shows in London’s O2 Arena. Jackson had won the backing of two billionaires to get the so-called “King of Pop” back on stage.
His backers envision the shows at AEG’s O2 as an audition for a career rebirth that could ultimately encompass a three-year world tour, a new album, movies, a Graceland-like museum, musical revues in Las Vegas and Macau, and even a “Thriller” casino. Such a rebound could wipe out Jackson’s massive debt.
Well, I have heared some news about smuxi – developed by Mirco ‘meebey’ Bauer, a colleque.
This is about his new windows installer for smuxi. Smuxi is a smart and flexible IRC Client. I think I’m the only one who had the ability to get smuxi running on windows. But now the windows installer does anything you need to get that done for everyone!
The installer is a GUI using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). I’ve written the main installer and meebey enhanced it with a full download implementation for the needed software like .NET and GTK# Runtime.
Taste the new installer – available on smuxi.org. There are some screenshots available, too!
- Download Smuxi
- View Screenshots
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