Mozilla’s New Logo Brings Back the Dinosaur Mascot (Kinda)

A new Mozilla logo appears to be on the way, marking the first major update to the company’s word-mark since 2017. Mozilla’s current logo incorporates the internet protocol “://” and was chosen using feedback from […]

18 August 2024
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How to Install Thunderbird DEB on Ubuntu 24.04 (Not Snap)

Do you want to try the latest Thunderbird 128 release but don’t want to use the snap package available in Ubuntu? Your first thought might be to run sudo apt install thunderbird to install the […]

16 August 2024

Ubuntu 24.10 Includes 20th Anniversary Easter Eggs

When Ubuntu 24.10 is released in October it will mark the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu, so it’s only fitting that the ‘Oracular Oriole’ come bearing a few easter eggs in honour if its past. And […]

15 August 2024

Proton VPN Browser Extensions Now Available to Free Plan Users

Proton, the company behind a suite of privacy-focused services, has made its Proton VPN Chrome and Firefox extensions available to non-paying users on the Proton Free plan. Prior to today, only users who subscribed to a […]

14 August 2024
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First Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Point Release Delayed By 2 Weeks

The first Ubuntu 24.04 LTS point release won’t be released this week, as initially planned. Ubuntu developers were aiming to get Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS out of the door on Thursday, August 15th, but have had […]

12 August 2024

Thunderbird 130 Beta Includes a Tray Icon for Linux

The first Thunderbird 130 beta release is out, and when running it on Linux there’s a very obvious new feature: a tray icon! In the Thunderbird 130 beta release notes the ‘what’s new’ section lists […]

11 August 2024
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WebDAV Fixes for Fastmail, Mailbox Coming to Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users experiencing issues setting up Fastmail and mailbox.org providers in GNOME Online Accounts to access cloud files, calendars, and/or contacts will be pleased to hear a fix is inbound. Both aforementioned services […]

11 August 2024

Canonical Announce Major Ubuntu Kernel Change

Ever get miffed reading about a major new Ubuntu release only to learn it doesn’t come with the newest Linux kernel? Well, that’ll soon be a thing of the past. Canonical’s announced a big shift […]

9 August 2024

3-in-1 Linux Convertible Laptop Unveiled by TUXEDO Computers

TUXEDO Computers has unleashed their latest Linux laptop, the InfinityFlex 14 — as you might have guessed from the name, it flips and folds. The company touts this dextrous new device as ‘the first 3-in-1 […]

8 August 2024

Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha with COSMIC Desktop is Available to Download

The wait is over: System76’s new COSMIC desktop environment is ready for its first test flight. You’ve heard the hype about COSMIC. You’ve tracked news on its development. You’ve seen screenshots of formative builds on […]

8 August 2024
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Firefox 129 Adds Tab Hover Preview & Reader View Tweaks

Mozilla Firefox 129 is now available download, and comes with a couple of features customisation fans are sure to enjoy. It’s been 4 weeks since Firefox 128 dished out a unified cookie, cache n’ data clearing experience, […]

6 August 2024
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GNOME Now Has an Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons

As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This is non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to […]

5 August 2024
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Amarok 3.1 Released with Last.FM Tweaks, Qt 6 Prep + More

A new version of Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download. Amarok 3.1 lands three months after Amarok 3.0, which was the first release in nearly 6 years and saw the audio player’s developers […]

3 August 2024

Firefox Nightly Makes Picture-in-Picture Mode MUCH Easier to Use

The latest Firefox Nightly build provides a feature that dramatically improves how its picture-in-picture (PIP) feature works — and I’m totally digging it! In current stable versions of Firefox you pop-out video content from (supported) […]

2 August 2024
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3 New AI Features Rolling out to Chrome Users on Linux

Google has announced a clutch of new AI-powered features have begun rolling out to users of Chrome on Windows, macOS, and —for once!— Linux. Chrome’s Vice President Parisa Tabriz unveiled the trio of AI features, […]

1 August 2024

Use a Lot of AppImage? You Need to Try Gear Lever

AppImages are great: a single runtime contains everything you need to run an app, including dependencies, that you double-click to run from anywhere on your system. But therein lies the rub, my friend. See, if […]

30 July 2024

JetBrains IntelliJ Idea Users Can Test a ‘Pure Wayland’ Build

JetBrains users wondering when Wayland support might land should check out the latest ‘Early Access Program’ (EAP) builds released earlier this month – Wayland preview, ahoy! At present, all of JetBrains’ IntelliJ-based IDEs on Linux […]

29 July 2024

How to Enable Hardware Acceleration in Chromium Snap

Last May, Canonical announced that a hardware-accelerated version of the Chromium snap was available for testing on Intel (7th-gen and later) hardware. And that news was very welcome: hardware acceleration + the modern web = […]

28 July 2024