Browsers

Firefox 48.0 released with Multi-Process support (Electrolysis)

<li class="bbli"> WebRTC embetterments: <ul> <li> Delay-agnostic AEC enabled </li> <li> Full duplex for GNU/Linux enabled </li> <li> ICE Restart & Update is supported </li> <li> Cloning of MediaStream and MediaStreamTrack is now supported </li> <li> Searching for something already in your bookmarks or open tabs? We added super smart icons to let you know </li> <li> Windows folks: Tab (move buttons) and Shift+F10 (pop-up menus) now behave as they should in Firefox customization mode </li> <li> The media parser has been redeveloped using the Rust programming language </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed: <ul> <li> Heyo, Jabra & Logitech C920 webcam users.

Vivaldi Snapshot 1.2.479.8 released with more keyboard shortcuts

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/snapshot/vivaldi-snapshot-1.2.479.8-1.i386.rpm -O vivaldi-snapshot.i386.rpm sudo rpm -i vivaldi-snapshot.i386.rpm</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/snapshot/vivaldi-snapshot-1.2.479.8-1.x86_64.rpm -O vivaldi-snapshot.x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -i vivaldi-snapshot.

Tor Browser 5.5.5 released

<li> Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.1.6 </li> <li> Update NoScript to 2.9.0.11 </li> <li> Bug 18726: Add new default obfs4 bridge (GreenBelt) </li> </ul>

Firefox 45.0.2 released with fix to video playback crash

Mozilla Firefox 45.0.2 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release is purely in relation to some important bug fixes, which Mozilla have deemed necessary to bring the browser to a new client version which requires a physical update. These include a fix for Firefox crashing in relation to video playback with Media Source Extension and also a fix an issue impacting the cookie header, when third-party cookies are blocked.

Opera 38 Browser Integrates Free VPN for better online privacy

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Mac</strong> users just need to click the Opera menu, select “Preferences” and toggle the feature VPN on, while <strong>Windows and Linux</strong> users need to go to the “Privacy and Security” section in “Settings” and enable VPN there. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> A button will appear in the browser address field, from which the user can see and change location (more locations will appear later), check whether their IP is exposed and review statistics for their data used.

Vivaldi 1.0 Stable version released

<li> Speed Dial Folders <ul> <li> Organize your Speed Dials into folders for convenient access. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Quick Commands <ul> <li> Control everything in Vivaldi with simple text commands </li> </ul> </li> <li> Fast Forward <ul> <li> Jump to the next page in a sequence. Great for search results. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Rewind <ul> <li> Return to the first page you’ve visited at a site. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <li> Web Panels <ul> <li> View any site in your Vivaldi side panel.

Vivaldi Beta 3 is here – Download Now

<li dir="ltr"> Tab specific zoom allows you to set zoom level for each tab, rather than for each website domain. It avoids having all the tabs zoomed when visiting the same website in different tabs and allows you to keep one zoom level while browsing in a tab. </li> <li dir="ltr"> New Tab Hibernation Options <ul> <li dir="ltr"> This new option gives you more control on your resources. If you are like us and want to have many tabs open, simply right click on the active tab and choose &#8216;Hibernation Background tabs&#8217;.

Firefox 44.0.2 released with bugfix

Mozilla Firefox 44.0.2 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release primarily focuses on bugfix. A notable update to this release is it fixes an issue where Firefox hangs or crashes on startup. Mozilla Firefox 44.0.2 changelog Same-origin-policy violation using Service Workers with plugins Lightweight themes on Firefox for Android do not verify a secure connection Application Reputation service disabled in Firefox 43 Unsafe memory manipulation found through code inspection Addressbar spoofing attacks Delay following click events in file download dialog too short on OS X Errors in mp_div and mp_exptmod cryptographic functions in NSS Missing delay following user click events in protocol handler dialog Addressbar spoofing through stored data url shortcuts on Firefox for Android Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cookie names Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:44.

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 Released

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfix. A notable new feature is an improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections. Mozilla Firefox 44.0 changelogNew Improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections Enable H.264 if system decoder is available Enable WebM/VP9 video support on systems that don’t support MP4/H.264 In the animation-inspector timeline, lightning bolt icon next to animations running on the compositor thread Support the brotli compression format via HTTPS content-encoding Screenshot commands allow user choice of pixel ratio in Developer Tools Fixed

Mozilla Stops Ads on Firefox, Now focused on Advancing Content

One of the many benefits of the Web is the ability to create unique, personalized experiences for individual users. We believe that this personalization needs to be done with respect for the user – with transparency, choice and control. When the user is at the center of product experiences everyone benefits. Our learnings show that users want content that is relevant, exciting and engaging. We want to deliver that type of content experience to our users, and we know that it will take focus and effort to do that right.

Google Chrome 47 update released

Google Chrome 47 update (47.0.2526.73 ) recently released, comes with a 41 security fixes, very tiny UI changes (except for the built-in PDF viewer, which was redone entirely), and the removal of the desktop notification center. The iOS version has added new keyboard shortcuts and support for 3D touch. Google Chrome 47 Highlights: Use-after-free in AppCache Cross-origin bypass in core Cross-origin bypass in DOM Out of bounds access in v8 Out of bounds access in Skia Use-after-free in Extensions Type confusion in PDFium Out of bounds access in PDFium.

Mozilla Firefox 64-Bit Scheduled to Support Microsoft Silverlight

At least for a while as Mozilla still plans on deprecating Silverlight support sometime in the future (much as Google and Microsoft already have). Bug 1225293 which was made public today indicates Mozilla’s short term plans to support Silverlight in the Win64 builds. When exactly Silverlight will return to the Firefox 64-Bit builds is not exactly known. It could (but not likely) be with Firefox 43 already in Beta and due out December 15th, 2015 or (more likely) Firefox 44 still in Developer’s Edition (Aurora) and due out in late January 2016 or Firefox 45 currently in Nightly builds and due out early March 2016.

Pale Moon 25.8.0 – Firefox Based Browser released

Fixes/changes: Updated LibVPX to 1.4.x to be able to play more kinds of VP9-encoded videos. Updated the JPEG decoder library to 1.4.0. Fixed and cleaned up XPCOM timer thread code to avoid intermittent issues with events not firing (especially after stand-by). Updated overrides to work around issues with Facebook and Netflix. Fixed an issue where too-old system-supplied NSPR and/or NSS libraries would be accepted for use. Security fixes:

Mozilla to discontinue support for Firefox Heavyweight Theme

As part of Firefox great-or-dead, we’ve decided to stop support for “heavyweight” themes which can do arbitrary styling and replace chrome packages. We may simply remove that support completely, or we may extend lightweight themes with some additional features such as changing colors or icons.

Tor Browser 5.0.4 is released with important security updates

<li> Bug 16937: Remove the en-US dictionary from non en-US Tor Browser bundles </li> <li> Bug 17318: Remove dead ScrambleSuit bridge </li> <li> Bug 17473: Update meek-amazon fingerprint </li> <li> Bug 16983: Isolate favicon requests caused by the tab list dropdown </li> <li> Bug 17102: Don&#8217;t crash while opening a second Tor Browser </li> </ul> <ul> <li> Windows <ul> <li> Bug 16906: Don&#8217;t depend on Windows crypto DLLs </li> </ul> </li> <li> Linux <ul> <li> Bug 17329: Ensure that non-ASCII characters can be typed </li> </ul> </li> </ul>

Tor Browser 4.5.2 released with Latest Tor Anonymity Network Software

Tor Browser 4.5.2 changelog All Platforms Update Tor to 0.2.6.9 Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1n Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.0.5 Update NoScript to 2.6.9.26 Update Torbutton to 1.9.2.6 Bug 15984: Disabling Torbutton breaks the Add-ons Manager Bug 14429: Make sure the automatic resizing is disabled Translation updates Bug 16130: Defend against logjam attack Bug 15984: Disabling Torbutton breaks the Add-ons Manager Linux Bug 16026: Fix crash in GStreamer Bug 16083: Update comment in start-tor-browser

Pale Moon Browser 25.5.0 released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">wget sourceforge.net/projects/pm4linux/files/25.5.0/palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon* sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">wget sourceforge.net/projects/pm4linux/files/25.5.0/palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon* sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon<p style="text-align: justify;"> Import Firefox profile like bookmarks, history, extensions, etc </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">cp -R ~/.

Mozilla Firefox 36.0.1 released

Mozilla Firefox 36.0.1for desktop had been released and available for download and install. This latest release comes with additional issues been fixed, one of which is the “Hello may become inactive until restart”. Other issues fixed in this release includes: Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type Fixed a startup crash with EMET Hello may become inactive until restart Print preferences may not be preserved Hello contact tabs may not be visible Accept hostnames that include an underscore character (“_”) WebGL may use significant memory with Canvas2d Option -remote has been restored Fix a top crash See releasenotesfor full details Install Mozilla Firefox 36.

Google Chrome 36.0 Beta Out

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Pipelight an alternative to Silverlight for Ubuntu

Update Silverlight to 5.1.30214.0 Add ViewRight for Caiway plugin Update Flash to 12.0.0.77 Update Shockwave Player to 12.1.0.150 Update Roblox plugin Added Vizzed RGR plugin Add pipelight-plugin commandline switch –list-enabled-all Silverlight now works even with less strict user agent settings Made pluginloader 64-bit compatible and added experimental 64-bit version of Flash Add implementation for NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall Fixed compilation of 32bit pluginloader with wineg++

Install Latest Google Chrome in Ubuntu 13.10

Integrated capabilities audio and video playback. View google Voice Flash plugin (Pepper flash) Automatic Update System Projector image processor (only Chrome OS) File Manager (File manager) (only Chrome OS) Wallpaper and applications on windows (only Chrome OS) audio test tools, network, battery, etc. (only Chrome OS) Installing latest version of Google Chrome is quite easy and I will be installing it on a x64 Ubuntu OS.

Create a Chrome App for your Website

[code lang=”js”] { “manifest_version”: 2, “name”: “Sysadmin Blog App”, “short_name”: “Max of 12 characters”, “description”: “Your website description in 132 characters or less.”, “version”: “1.1”, “icons”: { “128”: “icon.png” }, “app”: { “urls”: [ “http://www.sysads.co.uk/" ], “launch”: { “web_url”: “http://www.sysads.co.uk/" } }, “permissions”: [ “unlimitedStorage”, “notifications” ] } [/code]

Install latest Firefox on CentOS 6.5

[code language=”js”]# yum list firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# wget Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm[/code] [code language=”js”]# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm # rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm[/code] [code language=”js”]# yum –enablerepo=remi list firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# yum –enablerepo=remi install firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# yum –enablerepo=remi update firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# firefox[/code]

Installing Google Chrome 32 on CentOS 6.5

[code language=”js”]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo[/code] [code language=”js”] [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [/code] [code language=”js”]# yum update -y[/code] [code language=”js”]# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh # chmod u+x install_chrome.sh[/code] [code language=”js”]# ./install_chrome.sh[/code]