Topic: Web Browsers

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Rekonq to support Chrome extensions

QT web browser Rekonq is to add support for Chrome extensions – allowing thousands of already-made extensions to run out-of-the-box — all thanks to the work of KDE developer Nikhil Marathe. Rekonq, tentatively marked as […]

25 May 2010
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Midori 0.2.6 Released – Now allows custom number of speed-dials

Webkit based browser Midori hit version 0.2.6 in a new release today, coming just over a week since version 0.2.5 was made available. Notable improvements & fixes in this new version include: – Dialogue prompt […]

24 May 2010
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Just How Popular is Chrome/ium on Linux? Answer: Very

Google Chrome for Linux will be one year old on Friday 4th June. Crazy non? To mark this relatively minor milestone I've decided to take a look at how Google Chrome's growth on Linux has, well, grown in that time. I can only base my findings on my blog as a whole with some outside context provided by net statistic providers.

23 May 2010
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Midori 0.2.4: The good & the Bad

At some point, nearly unnoticed, Midori 0.2.4 slipped through to repositories everywhere. I know what you’re thinking, “Who cares about a 6 week old partial release? Lucid Lynx comes out in less than two days!” […]

28 April 2010
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Opera 10.52 gets initial KDE integration, PPC Linux support

The Opera desktop team have made available a new snapshot of their popular browser, this time with “…initial work on KDE 4 integration.” Also available is the first Linux PPC build for 10.52. Linux users […]

14 April 2010
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Midori 0.2.3 Released

Midori 0.2.3 has been released to the wilds and a jam-packed release it is too! Midori?! What the frell is that? It’s a GTK+ based Webkit browser that is extremely fast and extremely awesome. It […]

20 February 2010
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Midori 0.2.0 Released

The Midori team today announced the release of version 0.2.0 of the webkit based web browser. This latest release see’s a ton of improvements made to the once notoriously crash-happy browser. These include: – Improved […]

16 October 2009
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Opera 10 Finally Fits in Flawlessly on GNOME Desktops

The new beta of Opera 10 web browser comes in a Qt version, meaning it can now “use†the GTK theme when running in the GNOME desktop environment. Here’s a screenshot of Opera 10 on […]

13 July 2009
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Google Release First Chrome Developer Preview for Linux

Google has just released the first official testing build of its new web browser, Google Chrome for Linux! In all honesty, there is little in this developer preview to distinguish the official build from the […]

5 June 2009

Installing the Flock (Web Browser) on Ubuntu is Easy

Social-networking fiends and web 2.0-a-holics will likely have heard of Flock, the Firefox-based fork describing itself as a ‘social browser’ — which some say will change browsing as we know it. Flock makes using social […]

28 April 2009
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Small Chrome Updates Include Exclusive New Feature

The Chrome browser continues to take steps forward to an official Google-sanctioned release. Although the latest Linux updates for Chromium are not as drastic as the previous major update, small incremental steps are being implemented […]

19 April 2009
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Dust Firefox Theme works with SwiftWeasel!

If you prefer your Firefox a bit speedier, you might already be using the custom Linux build called ‘Swiftweasel‘. (You can find it in Add/Remove) It is no suprise then that the DUST firefox theme […]

9 March 2009