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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Indicator Netspeed Displays Network Speed On The Unity Panel

Indicator Netspeed is a simple Ubuntu AppIndicator which displays the network speed on the Unity panel.

The indicator displays the total current network traffic on the panel and from its menu, you can check out the current download or upload speed as individual values.

Indicator Netspeed doesn't detect the currently used network interface and by default it selects wlan0. So the first time you run it, select the network interface you're using from the indicator menu!

By default, the Netspeed Indicator is placed as the first indicator on the left, but if you want to change its position, you can do this by using Dconf Editor (firstly, install dconf-tools: "sudo apt-get install dconf-tools"), by going to apps > indicators > netspeed and changing the "ordering-index" value.

Install Indicator Netspeed in Ubuntu

Because it wasn't available in a PPA, I packaged Indicator Netspeed and uploaded it to the main failsdownloads PPA. To add the PPA and install Indicator Netspeed in Ubuntu, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-netspeed

If you don't want to add the PPA, you can download the deb from HERE and install it manually.

Once installed, log out and log back in - Indicator Netspeed should start automatically after you log in.

Report any bugs you may find @ GitHub.

PPA Updates: Tor Browser Bundle 3.5, Sublime Text 3 Beta Build 3059

Quick update for Ubuntu / Linux Mint users: our PPAs were updated today with the latest Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 and Sublime Text 3 beta build 3059.

Tor Browser Bundle 3.5

For those not familiar with Tor Browser Bundle, this is a web browser based on Firefox ESR (Firefox with extended support), configured to protect users' privacy and anonymity by using Tor which comes bundled with it. The bundle also includes some Firefox extensions, like: TorButton, TorLauncher, NoScript and HTTPS-Everywhere.

For more information, see our initial article: Tor Browser Bundle Ubuntu PPA.

Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is a major release and comes with the latest Firefox 24.2 ESR (the previous stable Tor Browser Bundle version was using Firefox 17 ESR), updated extensions and Tor as well as other changes and bug fixes.

With this release, a configuration window is displayed the first time your run Tor Browser Bundle, which allows you to select how to connect to the Tor network:

Also, in the previous releases, launching Tor Browser would also launch Vidalia, resulting in an extra window that you'd had to close to quit Tor Browser Bundle. That's no longer the case with the latest Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 because Vidalia has been replaced with a new Tor Launcher Firefox Addon.

Changes in Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 (compared to the previous stable release):

Update Firefox to 24.2.0esr;
Update Tor to 0.2.4.19;
Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.2;
Update NoScript to 2.6.8.7;
Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 3.4.4tbb (special TBB tag) - Tag includes a patch to handle enabling/disabling Mixed Content Blocking;
Remove Vidalia; Use the new TorLauncher Firefox Addon instead;
Disable health report service;
Disable prompting about health report and Mozilla Sync;
Disable HTTPS-Everywhere first-run tooltips;
Disable Mixed Content Blocker pending backport of Mozilla Bug 878890;
Support running Tor Launcher from InstantBird;
Support browser directory location API changes in Firefox 24;
Clear FF24 Private Browsing Mode data during New Identity;
Update cache isolation for FF24 API changes;
Properly clear crypto tokens during New Identity on FF24;
Support changes to Private Browsing Mode and plugin APIs in FF24;
Linux: use LD_LIBRARY_PATH (fixes launch issues on old Linux distros);
Linux: fix architecture check to work from outside TBB's directory;
Linux: remove libz and firefox-bin, and strip unstripped binaries;
Linux: disable Firefox updater during compile time;
Support multiple Tor socks ports for about:tor status check;
Fix: Tor Launcher hang on TBB exit;
Fix: Adblock Plus interferes w/Tor Launcher dialog;
Fix: make flash objects really be click-to-play if flash is enabled;
Fix: remove polipo and privoxy from the banned ports list;
Fix a potential memory leak in the Image Cache isolation;
Fix a potential crash if OS theme information is ever absent.
More.

The complete changelog for Tor Browse Bundle can be found HERE.

To install Tor Browser Bundle in Ubuntu / Linux Mint, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/tor-browser
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor-browser

Important reminder: any TorBrowser changes you make (bookmarks, addons you install, etc.) are deleted on upgrade due to the way TorBrowser works, but this will change with a future update. Also, because there are separate packages on Tor Browser Bundle's website for the supported languages, the package in our PPA can only support one language (English).

Sublime Text 3 beta build 3059

Sublime Text is a popular text editor somewhat similar to TextMate, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

After almost 6 months, there's finally a new Sublime Text 3 beta build available: 3059. The latest beta build can be evaluated for an unlimited period of time and it includes the following changes:

Added tab scrolling, controlled by the enable_tab_scrolling setting;
Added image preview when opening images;
Encoding and line endings can be displayed in the status bar with the show_encoding and show_line_endings settings;
Added settings caret_extra_top, caret_extra_bottom and caret_extra_width to control the caret size;
Added index_exclude_patterns setting to control which files get indexed;
Automatically closing windows when the last tab is dragged out;
Changed tab close behavior: the neighboring tab is now always selected;
When the last file is closed, a new transient file is created automatically;
Ctrl+Tab ordering is stored in the session;
Added minimap_scroll_to_clicked_text setting;
Improved error messages when unable to save files;
Auto complete now works as expected in macros;
Minor improvements to Python syntax highlighting;
Vintage: A block caret is now used;
Vintage: Improved behavior of visual line mode with word wrapped lines;
Find in Files will no longer block when FIFOs are encountered;
Linux: Added menu hiding;
Linux: Fixed incorrect handling of double clicks in the Find panel;
Linux: Fixed incorrect underscore display in some menus;
API: Window.open_file now accepts an optional group parameter;
API: Plugins may now call Settings.clear_on_change() within a callback from Settings.add_on_change();
API: Calling Settings.add_on_change() from within a settings change callback won't cause the added callback to be run;

Ubuntu / Linux Mint users who want automated updates for the latest Sublime Text 3 beta builds can install the application by using the failsdownloads Sublime Text 3 PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

For more information, see our initial article: Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA. If you want to use Sublime Text 2 instead of 3 (which uses Python 2), there's a PPA for it too.

Remember, you can see the latest failsdownloads PPA updates @ http://ppa.failsdownloads.blogspot.com/

How To Install Chromium Beta Or Dev Channel In Ubuntu Via PPA

Quick tip for Chromium Browser users: The official Ubuntu Chromium Browser beta and dev channel PPAs are unmaintained for a long time but there are a couple of PPAs you can use to get the latest beta and development Chromium builds in Ubuntu.

Saikrishna Arcot maintains two Chromium PPAs: one for the Chromium Beta channel and one for the Chromium Dev channel builds - both PPAs are updated regularly for all supported Ubuntu versions.

However, there is a downside to using these PPAs: these Chromium builds don't include the Google APIs which means that some features like the browser Sync don't work by default. To get these features back, you need to get a Google API key - the instructions for doing this are included in the PPAs description.

You can use these Chromium builds without the Google API but remember that the Sync, among others, won't work!

Another thing you should note is that using these PPAs, your current Chromium installation will be overwritten by the one in the PPA, so you can't install both Chromium Stable and Chromium Beta or Dev in the same time.

Install Chromium Beta Channel build in Ubuntu

To add the Chromium Beta Channel PPA and install the browser in Ubuntu (and derivatives, like Linux Mint, etc.), use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Install Chromium Development Channel build in Ubuntu

To add the Chromium Dev Channel PPA and install the browser in Ubuntu (and derivatives, like Linux Mint, etc.), use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

The Aura UI was disabled for the latest Chromium development builds but it used to be enabled until yesterday and that caused some rendering bugs. The Aura UI will return in Chromium dev builds and it might get pretty unstable when that happens so use this with care!

How to revert the changes and return to Chromium stable

You can use PPA Purge to purge the two PPAs above and return to the Chromium stable version from the official Ubuntu repositories. To do this, firstly install ppa-purge:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

Then:

- if you've added the Chromium Beta Channel PPA, purge it using the following command:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta

- if you've added the Chromium Dev Channel PPA, purge it using the command below:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-dev

Mozilla Thunderbird 38.0.1 is out, Install on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc

Install / Update Mozilla Thunderbird 38.0.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy", Debian 6 "squeeze", Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora 22, Fedora21, Fedora 20, CentOS 7, CentOS 6, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1, Mageia 5, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc

Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize - and it's loaded with great features!

Sending and receiving emails is like breathing these days, and you will need a reliable and extremely stable application to do it right. Mozilla Thunderbird is one of those rare applications that provides users with a feature-rich, easy to use and extendable email client. Besides begin an email client, the software is also a very good RSS news reader, as well as a newsgroup and chat client. It is supported and installed by default in many Linux operating systems.

Features at a glance

Among some of its major highlights, we can mention adaptive junk mail controls, saved search folders, global inbox support, message grouping, privacy protection, and comprehensive mail migration from other email clients.

Mozilla Thunderbird is designed to be very comprehensive. It will help users communicate better in an office space, allowing them to send, received emails, chat with their colleagues, and stay updated with the latest news.

Few know that the application provides users with a built-in web browser functionality, using a tabbed user interface and based on its bigger brother, the powerful Mozilla Firefox web explorer. Another interesting feature is the ability to add extensions, popularly known as add-ons, which will extended the default functionality of the application.

What New in Mozilla Thunderbird 38.0.1 :

GMail supports OAuth2 authentication, removing the need to manually select "allow less secure applications" in Google options for the account.
Ship Lightning calendar addon with Thunderbird and enable with an opt-out dialog
Filter sent messages
Filter messages when archived
Enable search in multiple/all address books
Add support for Yahoo Messenger in Chat
Support Internationalized domain name URLs for RSS feeds
Show expanded columns in folder pane
Allow file-per-message (maildir) local message storage
Add a Learn more link to the support page in feeds subscribe dialog
Add reading position marker line to conversations
The editor for twitter should show inputtable character count

Installation instructions:

Mozilla does not provide a repository for Thunderbird, but the installation steps are quite easy anyway and should not create difficulties on any Linux distribution.

The latest versions of Firefox are available as pre-compiled libraries via the Mozilla FTP, so we need to download the archive (i386 or i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64 or x86_64 for 64 bit systems), extract it and run the thunderbird file. Also, it is advised to remove previous versions of Thunderbird, move Thunderbird to /opt and create a symlink, for an easier usage.

The below instructions should work on all the popular Linux systems, including Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy", Debian 6 "squeeze", Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora 22, Fedora21, Fedora 20, CentOS 7, CentOS 6, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1, Mageia 5, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc

How to install Thunderbird on 32 bit Linux systems:

$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/38.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-38.0.1.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf thunderbird-38.0.1.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird*
$ sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

To start Thunderbird, just open a terminal, type thunderbird and hit enter.

How to install Thunderbird on 64 bit Linux systems:

$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/38.0.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-38.0.1.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf thunderbird-38.0.1.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird*
$ sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

To start Thunderbird, just open a terminal, type thunderbird and hit enter.

How to Install Mozilla Firefox 38.0.5 (Stable) on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other ubuntu derivative system via PPA
The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.

Mozilla Firefox 38.0.5 changelog

Keep track of articles and videos with Pocket
Clean formatting for articles and blog posts with Reader View
Share the active tab or window in a Hello conversation
A race condition that would cause Firefox to stop painting when switching tabs
Fixed graphics performance when using the built-in VGA driver on Windows 7

How to Install Mozilla Firefox 38.0.5 (Stable) on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update Mozilla Firefox 38.0.5 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

to Uninstall, do :

sudo apt-get remove firefox

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Tor Browser 4.5.2 Released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) / Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Tor Browser Bundle is a free and platform-independent application designed to allow users to browser the Web anonymously through the powerful Tor network on the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, without the need to use any third-party software.

Features at a glance

It is a portable software, allowing users to use directly from a USB flash drive, running a pre-configured web browser to protect their anonymity. The Tor software is the key component of Tor Browser Bundle, protecting users by bouncing their communications around a distributed network of relays, which are run by volunteers all around the world.

Tor Browser 4.5.2 provides a fix for the Logjam attack (https://weakdh.org/) and updates a number of Tor Browser components: Tor to version 0.2.6.9, Torbutton to version 1.9.2.6, NoScript to version 2.6.9.26 and HTTPS-Everywhere to version 5.0.5. Moreover, it fixes a possible crash on Linux and avoids breaking the Add-ons page if Torbutton is disabled.

Here is the complete changelog since 4.5.1:

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

How to : Install Tor Browser 4.5.2on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

To install Tor Browser Bundle 4.5.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) / Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor-bundle
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor-browser

Tor Browser Bundle 4.5.2 Removal (Optional)

To uninstall To Browser, run these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:upubuntu-com/tor-bundle
sudo apt-get remove tor-browser
sudo apt-get update

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install/Update Mozilla Firefox 37.0.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.

Install Mozilla Firefox 37.0.2 on Ubuntu OS

to install or update Mozilla Firefox 37.0.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

Remove Firefox

sudo apt-get remove firefox

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install Chrome 45 beta on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana [PPA]

Google Chrome, or Chrome, is a web browser software that tries to compete with major players, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even the Opera web browser. It is available for the Linux, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. But Google Chrome is more than a web browser, as it combines sophisticated open source technology, borrowed from the Chromium application, into a minimal design, all in order to help users surf the web much faster, a lot easier, and safer than ever before.

Features at a glance
A unique functionality of the Google Chrome application is its ability to search the web directly from the address bar. Just type one or more words in the address bar and immediately get suggestions for popular web pages. The application displays thumbnails of your top websites on the new tab page, a function that is popularly called Speed Dial. This functionality is also available on other similar products, and it allows you to easily access your favorite web pages instantly, with lightning speed, from any new tab.

Chrome 45 beta changelog

Service worker improvements: Chrome 40 introduced support for service workers, enabling developers to build high performance sites that work offline. This release includes a number of improvements:

Developers are now able to measure their service worker’s performance using the User Timing and Resource Timing APIs.
Service workers used exclusively to send push notifications are now kept up-to-date correctly and developers can also use the new update method to manually trigger an update check.
Sites can now use getRegistrations() to access all the service workers whose scope matches the current page.

Other updates in this release

Sites can now customize the vibration triggered when showing a notification on Android.
Chrome’s implementation of the Push API has undergone several minor breaking changes to keep up to date with the evolving specification.
Sites using promoted add to home screen can now programmatically control the timing of the banner.
The rotationAngle attribute of Touch objects is no longer prefixed, making it easier for sites to understand the geometry of the user’s touch with cross-browser code.
To improve scroll performance on pages with heavy mouse handlers or :hover styles, Chrome no longer sends mouse position updates when the user is scrolling with a trackpad or scrollwheel.
Chrome now immediately prefetches all HTML imports referenced by a page instead of waiting for scripts included higher in the document to finish executing, improving performance.
Sites can now include 3rd-party resources on their site with reduced security risk by using a hash to ensure the integrity of 3rd-parties resources.
To reduce the risk of certain types of attack, the ‘self’ source defined by Content Security Policy now excludes blob and filesystem URLs.
The logjam attack is fixed in this release by deprecating the use of keys smaller than 1024 bits in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which may require developers to update their server’s TLS configuration.
To improve cross-browser compatibility and specification compliance, CSSUnknownRule and CSSKeyframesRule.insertRule() are now deprecated with the latter now replaced by CSSKeyframesRule.appendRule().
Sites using SMIL will now trigger deprecation warnings in the console, encouraging them to migrate to CSS Animations and Web Animations.
This release deprecates both multiple shadow roots and shadow-piercing deep selectors following a unanimous decision by browser vendors at the Web Components April 2015 meeting.
The MediaStream attributes label and ended are now deprecated in favor of id and active, while the stop() method is deprecated in favor of MediaStreamTrack.stop().

How to Upgrade to Chrome 45 beta on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Elementary OS

To Install/Update and upgrade Chrome 45 beta on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana derivative system, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

Cutegram 2.2.0 Released, Install on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

Cutegram 2.2.0 Released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Cutegram is a completely free and open source graphical software project that has been designed from the offset to act as a Linux client for the Telegram messaging service. It offers an attractive and modern graphical user interface implemented in Qt.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for sending and receiving files, support for the system tray area of many open source desktop environments, native desktop notifications, customizable fonts, Twitter emojis, as well as support for all GNU/Linux operating systems.

Additionally, the software comes with complete drag & drop support for sending files, deleting messages and forwarding messages, an experimental secret chat, and a smooth and beautiful graphical user interface based on the latest QML technologies.

Another interesting features is that the program is independent of a desktop environment, thus supporting GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, Openbox, Fluxbox, and other open source desktop environments/window managers.

What's new in Cutegram 2.2.0:

Link preview (disabled on trusty, because of some problems)
Audio Recorder
Audio Player
Focus on User messages using click on their messages
New messages separator
Mention and Hashtag support
Add new contact dialog on contact list
Better scroll bars
An option to disable badges
Update and Add new translations
Improvement on Secret chat
Non-contact chat bugfix
Many other improvements and bugfixes

Cutegram 2.2.0 Released, Install on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

Because it is available via PPA, installing Cutegram 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the cutegram package. Like this:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aseman/desktop-apps
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cutegram

Optional, to remove cutegram, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove cutegram

to install Cutegram 2.2.0 with single file deb extension on Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Ubuntu 32 bit ;

$ wget http://aseman.co/downloads/cutegram/2/cutegram_2.2.0-1-i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cutegram_2.2.0-1-i386.deb
$ sudo rm -rf cutegram_2.2.0-1-i386.deb

Ubuntu 64 bit ;

$ wget http://aseman.co/downloads/cutegram/2/cutegram_2.2.0-1-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cutegram_2.2.0-1-amd64.deb
$ sudo rm -rf cutegram_2.2.0-1-amd64.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install -f

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX

FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, Available for Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX

FrostWire is an open source and cross-platform application that allow users to share large files and folders at faster download speeds over the Internet, with other people. It is compatible with the BitTorrent network, and allows users to download Magnet links.

Features at a glance

Key features include user-friendly online chat rooms, support for Internet radio stations, skins, Apple iTunes support, as well as a media library and audio player. Being an open source software, FrostWire includes no spyware and no adware. Guaranteed!

It is inspired by the well known LimeWire application and has been designed from the ground up to support search inside cloud and .torrent files, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) service, playback of audio and video files using the MPlayer software, as well as local file sharing and streaming via Wi-Fi/HTTP.

In addition, the program allows users to send downloaded audio files to the iTunes music player application in order to play them. Also, the integrated video player component will let you to playback downloaded video files.

What's new in FrostWire 6.0.8:

Significant improvements in search result availability.
Faster Bitsnoop, Extratorrent and KAT individual file search results.
Reduced use of DHT network for search.
Faster torrent download start time.
Fixes download error on some Archive.org search results.
Fixes Yify search.
Misc fixes in Library functionality.
Crash fixes.

$ wget -c http://dl9.frostwire.com/frostwire/6.0.8/frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb
$ sudo rm -rf frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb

Download RPM File and DMG (Mac OSX)

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Tor Browser 4.5.1 released, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Tor Browser 4.5.1 released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn / Linux Mint via PPA

Tor Browser Bundle is a free and platform-independent application designed to allow users to browser the Web anonymously through the powerful Tor network on the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, without the need to use any third-party software.

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

The Tor Browser lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained.

Features at a glance

It is a portable software, allowing users to use directly from a USB flash drive, running a pre-configured web browser to protect their anonymity. The Tor software is the key component of Tor Browser Bundle, protecting users by bouncing their communications around a distributed network of relays, which are run by volunteers all around the world.

What's new in Tor Browser 4.5.1:

All Platforms:
Update Firefox to 31.7.0esr
Update meek to 0.18
Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.5
Translation updates only
Update Torbutton to 1.9.2.3
Bug 15837: Show descriptions if unchecking custom mode
Bug 15927: Force update of the NoScript UI when changing security level
Bug 15915: Hide circuit display if it is disabled.
Translation updates
Bug 15945: Disable NoScript's ClearClick protection for now
Bug 15933: Isolate by base (top-level) domain name instead of FQDN
Bug 15857: Fix file descriptor leak in updater that caused update failures
Bug 15899: Fix errors with downloading and displaying PDFs
Windows:
Bug 15872: Fix meek pluggable transport startup issue with Windows 7
Build System:
Bug 15947: Support Ubuntu 14.04 LXC hosts via LXC_EXECUTE=lxc-execute env var
Bugs 15921+15922: Fix build errors during Mozilla Tryserver builds

Tor Browser 4.5.1 released, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

To Install Tor Browser 4.5.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn / Linux Mint via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor-bundle
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor-browser

to remove Tor Browser 4.5.1 :

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:upubuntu-com/tor-bundle
sudo apt-get remove tor-browser
sudo apt-get update

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Install Google Chrome 42.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Google Chrome, or Chrome, is a web browser software that tries to compete with major players, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even the Opera web browser. It is available for the Linux, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. But Google Chrome is more than a web browser, as it combines sophisticated open source technology, borrowed from the Chromium application, into a minimal design, all in order to help users surf the web much faster, a lot easier, and safer than ever before.

Features at a glance

A unique functionality of the Google Chrome application is its ability to search the web directly from the address bar. Just type one or more words in the address bar and immediately get suggestions for popular web pages. The application displays thumbnails of your top websites on the new tab page, a function that is popularly called Speed Dial. This functionality is also available on other similar products, and it allows you to easily access your favorite web pages instantly, with lightning speed, from any new tab.

Install Google Chrome 42.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana :

To Install/Update Google Chrome 42.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu 32 bit :

$ wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
$ sudo rm -rf google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit :

$ wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo rm -rf google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install -f

Note: Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date. If you don’t want Google's repository, do “sudo touch /etc/default/google-chrome” before installing the package.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3 Released, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, Mac OSX

Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3 Released, You can install and update on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, CentOS 6, CentOS 7 and Mac OSX

Vivaldi is a feature-rich, next-generation web browser application based on the powerful and open source Chromium project, from which the popular Google Chrome web browser is derived. The application is freely distributed and cross-platform, created by the former CEO of Opera Software, built using modern Web technologies like React, JavaScript, Node.js, and Browserify.

A web browser designed for you
The main goal of the Vivaldi project is to make a highly flexible, low on resources and extremely fast web browser software that works across all mainstream computer operating systems, a web browser that is rich in functionality and designed for you, the user.

What's new in Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3:

VB-5668 - “Close other tabs” closes active tab as well
VB-5645 - Wrong tab gets closed when closing tab stack
VB-4987 - f5 doesn’t refresh the page while page is loading
VB-4183 - Fast forward sometimes not working correctly with dynamically created DOM
VB-5540 - Setting to disable single key shortcuts
VB-5659 - Vivaldi opens new tabs on the left instead of on the right
VB-5654 - vivaldi:about page background issue
VB-5599 - Multiselection of tabs not properly recognized
VB-3197 - Make “startup” option

Install Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, Mac OSX

Windows: 32-bit | 64-bit (experimental)
Mac: Intel
Linux Ubuntu DEB: 64-bit | 32-bit
Linux Fedora & CentOS RPM: 64-bit | 32-bit

Install on Ubuntu via Terminal :

$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-snapshot_1.0.178.2-1_*.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install -f

Install on Fedora and CentOS via Terminal :

$ sudo yum install vivaldi-snapshot-1.0.178.2-1.*.rpm

Release Announce | Home Vivaldi

Mozilla Firefox 38.0 released, available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

Mozilla Firefox 38.0 released, available for Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.

What's new in Mozilla Firefox 38.0:

New tab-based preferences
Ruby annotation support
Share the active tab or window in a Hello conversation - enabled for first half of the beta cycle
Keep track of articles and blog posts with the Reading List - enabled for the first half of the beta cycle
Base for the next ESR release.
autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields
RegExp.prototype.source now returns "(?:)" instead of the empty string for empty regular expressions
Page load times improved by speculative connection warmup
WebSocket now available in Web Workers
Implemented srcset attribute and element for responsive images
Implemented DOM3 Events KeyboardEvent.code
Mac OS X: Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube
BroadcastChannel API implemented
Implemented Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API to support encrypted HTML5 video/audio playback (Windows Vista or later only)
Automatically download Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module (CDM) for DRM playback through EME (Windows Vista or later only)
Optimized-out variables are now visible in Debugger UI
XMLHttpRequest logs in the web console are now visually labelled and can be filtered separately from regular network requests
WebRTC now has multistream and renegotiation support
copy command added to console

Installation instructions:

Mozilla does not provide a repository for its Firefox browser, but the installation steps are quite easy anyway and should not create difficulties on any Linux distribution.

The latest versions of Firefox are available as pre-compiled libraries via the Mozilla FTP, so we need to download the archive (i386 or i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64 or x86_64 for 64 bit systems), extract it and run the firefox file. Also, it is advised to remove previous versions of Firefox, move Firefox to /opt and create a symlink, for an easier usage.

The below instructions should work on all the popular Linux systems, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.
How to install Firefox 38 on 32 bit Linux systems:

$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

To start Firefox, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.
How to install Firefox 38 on 64 bit Linux systems:

$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

For update on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

To start Firefox, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.

Install Telegram Desktop 0.8.24 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA

Install Telegram Desktop 0.8.24 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, CentOS 6, CentOS 5, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1, Mageia 5, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA

Telegram Desktop is an open source, multiplatform, modern and free graphical application that allows any Linux user to easily and quickly talk with friends, co-workers and family members who use the Telegram messenger, from the comfort of their GNU/Linux desktops.

Telegram is a revolutionary messaging system that can be easily described as fast, highly secure, cloud-based, distributed, free, open source, encrypted, powerful, and cross-platform, available on all the important mobile devices (Android, iOS (iPhone/iPad), Windows Phone) and operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows).

With Telegram you will be able to connect from remote locations, synchronize your conversations on all of your devices, create groups of up to 200 members, send documents of any type, send encrypted information that cannot be intercepted by government agencies, store media files in the cloud, as well as to choose to destruct certain messages.

What New in Telegram Desktop 0.8.24 ;

Improved sticker panel
New autoupdate check
OpenAL updated to a new version
Autoupdating improved
Bugfixes
Added sending voice messages
Fixed disappearing stickers
Translations improved
Fixed disappearing stickers
Voice messages recording and sending

Installation instructions:

The latest versions of Telegram are available as pre-compiled libraries via the project’s website, so we need to download the archive (i386 or i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64 or x86_64 for 64 bit systems), extract it, cd into the needed folder and run the telegram file. Also, it is advised to remove previous versions of telegram, move telegram to /opt and create a symlink, for an easier usage.

The below instructions should work on all the popular Linux systems, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

How to install Telegram Desktop on 32 bit Linux s ystems:

$ wget https://tdesktop.com/linux32
$ tar -xJvf tsetup32.0.8.24.tar.xz
$ sudo mv Telegram /opt/telegram
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/telegram /usr/bin/telegram

To start Telegram Destkop, open the terminal, type telegram and hit enter.

How to install Telegram Desktop on 64 bit Linux s ystems:

$ wget https://tdesktop.com/linux
$ tar -xJvf tsetup32.0.8.24.tar.xz
$ sudo mv Telegram /opt/telegram
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/telegram /usr/bin/telegram

To start Telegram Destkop, open the terminal, type telegram and hit enter.

After you have installed Telegram Desktop, start the app, type in your mobile phone number, write the confirmation code you have received on your phone and you’re done.

The source for Mac OS X is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Firefox 39.0 (Stable) is released, How to Install Mozilla on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS)or Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela", Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.

What New in Mozilla Firefox 39.0:

Share Hello URLs with social networks
Project Silk: Smoother animation and scrolling (Mac OS X)
Support for 'switch' role in ARIA 1.1 (web accessibility)
SafeBrowsing malware detection lookups enabled for downloads (Mac OS X and Linux)
Support for new Unicode 8.0 skin tone emoji
Removed support for insecure SSLv3 for network communications
Disable use of RC4 except for temporarily whitelisted hosts
The malware detection service for downloads now covers common Mac file types (Bug 1138721)
Performance of displaying dashed lines is improved (Mac OS X) (Bug 1123019)
List-style-type now accepts a string value
Enable the Fetch API for network requests from dedicated, shared and service workers
Cascading of CSS transitions and animations now matches the current spec
Implement allowing anticipation of a future connection without revealing any information
Added support for CSS Scroll Snap Points
Drag and drop enabled for nodes in Inspector markup view
Webconsole input history persists even after closing the toolbox
Cubic bezier tooltip now shows a gallery of timing-function presets for use with CSS animations
localhost is now available offline for WebSocket connections
Improve performance for IPv6 fallback to IPv4
Fix incomplete downloads being marked as complete by detecting broken HTTP1.1 transfers
The Security state indicator on a page now correctly ignores loads caused by previous pages
Fixed an issue where a Hello conversation window would sometimes fail to open
A regression that could lead to Flash not displaying has been fixed
Update to NSS 3.19.2
Various security fixes

How to Install Mozilla Firefox 39.0 (Stable) on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update Mozilla Firefox 39.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela", Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

to Uninstall, do :

sudo apt-get remove firefox

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

How to Install Mozilla Firefox 38.0.6 (Stable) on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other ubuntu derivative system via PPA

The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.

What’s New:

FIXED 33.0.1: Firefox displays a black screen at start-up with certain graphics drivers
NEW OpenH264 support (sandboxed)
NEW Improved search experience through the location bar
NEW Windows: OMTC enabled by default
NEW Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings
NEW Search suggestions on the Firefox Start (about:home) and new tab (about:newtab) pages
NEW Support for connecting to HTTP proxy over HTTPS
NEW New CSP (Content Security Policy) backend
NEW Improved reliability of the session restoration
NEW Azerbaijani [az] locale added
CHANGED JSD (JavaScript Debugger Service) removed in favor of the Debugger interface
CHANGED Proprietary window.crypto properties/functions removed
HTML5 DOMMatrix interface implemented
HTML5 @counter-style rule from CSS3 Counter Styles specification implemented
DEVELOPER Cubic-bezier curves editor
DEVELOPER Paint flashing for browser content repaints
DEVELOPER Display which elements have listeners attached
DEVELOPER New sidebar which displays a list of shortcuts to every @media rule in the current stylesheet
DEVELOPER Editable @keyframes rules in the Rules section of the Inspector
DEVELOPER CSS transform highlighter in the style-inspector
FIXED Various security fixes

Known Issues

UNRESOLVED Fix incomplete downloads being marked as complete by detecting broken HTTP1.1 transfers (237623) Resolved in v33.0
UNRESOLVED PDF.js: With some images, wrong colors could show up. Affects a very small number of PDF
UNRESOLVED Some certificate errors cannot be overridden (1042889)
UNRESOLVED Windows: On some combination of hardware and drivers, the main window could be black. In this case, update your graphics drivers (1083071)

How to Install Mozilla Firefox 38.0.6 (Stable) on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update Mozilla Firefox 38.0.6 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

to Uninstall, do :

sudo apt-get remove firefox

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install / Update Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Google Chrome, or Chrome, is a web browser software that tries to compete with major players, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even the Opera web browser. It is available for the Linux, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. But Google Chrome is more than a web browser, as it combines sophisticated open source technology, borrowed from the Chromium application, into a minimal design, all in order to help users surf the web much faster, a lot easier, and safer than ever before.

Features at a glance

A unique functionality of the Google Chrome application is its ability to search the web directly from the address bar. Just type one or more words in the address bar and immediately get suggestions for popular web pages. The application displays thumbnails of your top websites on the new tab page, a function that is popularly called Speed Dial. This functionality is also available on other similar products, and it allows you to easily access your favorite web pages instantly, with lightning speed, from any new tab.

While the first iteration of Chrome 43 (the first version promoted from the Beta to the Stable channel) brought 37 bug-fixes, Chrome 43 has been updated yet again (Chrome 43.0.2357.124 being promoted), updating the Flash Player to version 18.0.0.160 and bringing security fixes.
Installation instructions:

Google Chrome is available via the Google repositories for all the popular Linux systems, so installing and keeping Chrome up to date will be easy.

How to : Install Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update Google Chrome 43.0 (Stable) on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Instructions for Install 32 bith and 64 bit systems:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

How To Test Internet Speed Via Command Line

If you want to test the Internet speed on a server or you simply want to avoid the speedtest.net Flash interface, you can use speedtest-cli, a command line tool for testing Internet bandwidth.

speedtest-cli tests your Internet speed using the popular speedtest.net website and it supports listing servers sorted by distance, testing against a specific server, you can use it with a Speedtest Mini server and it can even generate and provide a URL to the speedtest.net share results image.

Install speedtest-cli

speedtest-cli can be installed using Python Pip. To install Pip in Ubuntu, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Then, install speedtest-cli:

sudo pip install speedtest-cli

Later on, when you want to upgrade speedtest-cli, use the following command:

sudo pip install speedtest-cli --upgrade

For other ways of installing speedtest-cli, see its GitHub page.

How to use speedtest-cli

To test your Internet connection speed from the command line using the best server based on ping, all you have to do is run the following command:

speedtest-cli

"speedtest" also works for the command instead of "speedtest-cli" (if you've installed the tool using Python Pip). So below I'll use the shorter command, "speedtest".

To test the Internet speed and get a share results image URL (here's an example), use:

speedtest --share

For advanced usage, like displaying the speedtest.net servers, test against a given server and so on, run:

speedtest -h

Here are all the available arguments:

usage: speedtest [-h] [--share] [--simple] [--list]
                     [--server SERVER] [--mini MINI] [--source SOURCE]
                     [--version]
Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using
speedtest.net.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --share          Generate and provide a URL to the speedtest.net
                   share results image
  --simple         Suppress verbose output, only show basic
                   information
  --list           Display a list of speedtest.net servers sorted by
                   distance
  --server SERVER  Specify a server ID to test against
  --mini MINI      URL of the Speedtest Mini server
  --source SOURCE  Source IP address to bind to
  --version        Show the version number and exit

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Install / update Mozilla Firefox 41.0.1 on Ubuntu 15.04, 14.10, 14.04 and Linux Mint 17, 17.1 rebecca via PPA

The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.

To Install / Update / Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 40.0.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

To Update / Upgrade Mozilla Firefox 41.0.1 vailable on PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

if you already install mozilla old version, you just update :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Install Indicator Netspeed in Ubuntu

Monday, October 19, 2015

Tor Browser Bundle 3.5

Sublime Text 3 beta build 3059

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Install Chromium Beta Channel build in Ubuntu

Install Chromium Development Channel build in Ubuntu

How to revert the changes and return to Chromium stable

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

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