Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution. Linux Mint 13 will feature an entirely new user interface, called Cinnamon. Earlier this week, the Linux Mint developers released a version of the shell. Previous editions of Linux Mint used a standard version of the Gnome environment….” Source: Computerworld Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics
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If you are working with multiple profiles in Firefox you have probably your own ingenious way of launching them. Some Firefox users may use shortcuts to launch their profiles, others the built-in profile manager, the command line or an add-on like Switchy If you are new to the concept, I suggest you take a look at the following guides that will get you started…” Source: Ghacks Technology News Firefox Profile Switcher Add-on
Johnathan Nightingale, Sr. Director of Firefox Engineering has posted on the Future of Firefox blog describing what is involved in switching Firefox for Android UI from XML to the new Native UI. While the rapid release process from a features stand point makes sense and works, this is not the case for this change over. However, when we decided to rebuild Firefox for Android using a native UI, we recognized that the first release couldn’t ride the trains. The iterative release model that serves us so well with Firefox works best when most changes are incremental and independent. Building a…
Recently there was post in Go Firefox! in which the user had installed the British English Dictionary add-on but the spellchecker was still using the US English dictionary. There is an additional step once you have installed the new dictionary add-on and restarted Firefox. You need to tell Firefox which dictionary it should be using. While, you can install as many different dictionaries as you like (as seen in the example below), you can only use one at a given time. Right-click in a text-area Select Languages Select the Dictionary you want to use
A while back I mentioned my unhappiness with a change Mozilla made in Firefox 9 with the new ‘Don’t load tabs until selected’ feature introduced in Firefox 8. For those who don’t recall the change, in Firefox 8 when this option was selected, any tab (normal or pinned) would not load until selected. Then in Firefox 9, this option only applied to normal tabs and pinned tabs would always load upon startup. Mozilla’s justification for the change was that the purpose of the pinned or app tabs was for web applications (chat, email, etc.) and therefore it would be desired…
I have added links for Thunderbird, Lighting and Provider for Google Calendar to a new ‘Downloads’ section on the side bar. This sections has links for both the current and developmental versions (note: the same version of Provider for Google Calendar works with both the release and developmental versions of Thunderbird and Lightning).
The ‘List all Tabs’ button is not one I use that often and may be that is why I had not noticed it was MIA in the Firefox 12 nighties. That was until this was brought up in the Firefox Builds forum last week. Turns out this is not a glitch, but a change as per Bug 714281 (Show the all tabs button only when the tab strip overflows). If you can not live without the ‘List all Tabs’ button, you can add these lines to your userChrome.css file [instructions]: /* Show “List all Tabs” Button */ #alltabs-button {visibility: visible…
I run Thunderbird with Lightning both on my desktop and laptop. Now, I had a bit of an oddity. I have two Google Calendars that I use in Thunderbird via Lighting and Provider for Google Calendar add-ons. On my desktop machine the times are correct, however on my laptop all the times are one hour earlier. I thought may be the time zone was wrong on the laptop, but it does show it is set to the Arizona time-zone. Also, when I view my calendars on the web, all the times are correct (even when viewed using the laptop). This…
From the January 9th, 2012 Mozilla Weekly Status meeting was mention that “The biggest piece of Silent Update landed: a Windows service so updates don’t require UAC prompts.” The link takes you to the feature page, but really doesn’t provide much more info. I am not even certain if the entire feature is done yet. If it is then we would likely see this in the Firefox 12 release on July 17th, 2012.
The announcement of the first Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) coming with Firefox 10 on January 31st also means Firefox 3.6 support will finally be ending. Mozilla will end support for Firefox 3.6 on April 24th, 2012 which is 12-weeks after the first Firefox ESR launch on January 31st, 2012. Firefox 3.6 was released in January 2010 and will be the longest running Firefox release at 27 months (followed by Firefox 2.0.0 which was retired after 22 months).