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Firefox 3 Final
The final version of Firefox 3 has been launched, something a lot of Firefox fans have been waiting for.
Firefox 3.0 is faster, Reliable and more secure then any of the previous versions. The Firefox team has
worked hard to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session, one of the biggest problems in the previous versions.
What's new in Firefox 3
More Security
- One click site info
- Malware Protection
- New Web Forgery Protection page
- New SSL error pages
- Add-ons and Plugin version check
- Secure add-on updates
- Anti-virus integration
Easier to Use
- Easier password management
- Simplified add-on installation
- New Download Manager
- Resumable downloading
- Tab scrolling and quickmenu
- Text selection improvements
- Find toolbar
More Personal
- Star button
- Tags
- Location bar and auto-complete
- Smart Places Folder
- Bookmarks and History Organizer
- Easy to use Download Actions
Download: Firefox 3 (English)
Download: Other Systems and Languages
View: Release Notes
Flock 2.0 Beta 1
Flock is a social Web browser, open source, cross platform and based on Mozilla technologies. Currently, the browser implements support for del.icio.us and Flickr. Users can also install alternative hosted bookmarks or photo sharing services. In the search box and the blog manager, Flock offer users a number of choices and the ability to install other services using open standards. Expect the same, over time, for hosted bookmarks, photo-sharing and other services Flock integrates. Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base.
Flock 2 includes all of the award-winning Flock features that people are raving about, PLUS all of the enhancements introduced by the latest FireFox 3 technology from Mozilla.
* New and improved security features - Better!
* Enhanced performance - Faster!
* Robust favorites and history handling - Stronger!
Download: Flock 2.0 Beta 1
View: Flock Beta Home Page
Snarfer 1.0.2
Snarfer provides a new approach to RSS feed aggregation focusing on speed, efficiency and ease of use. Using Snarfer people can become functional RSS users within seconds of installing it. Snarfer has a strong community of loyal users providing feedback, features requests and enhancements which allows the Snarfware team to bring out an enhanced version about every 45 days. (There's lots of cool stuff coming every cycle!)
Snarfer includes a Search Wizard that enables users to construct complex searches for items or information contained on eBay or Craigslist. The search results are returned to Snarfer utilizing the specific functions supported by these communities. These searches are intelligent and tent automatically returning new results to Snarfer every time the feed is updated.
Changelog:
- Keyword watches can now monitor individual feeds or folders.
- Technical Improvements:
- Added support for more embedded video sites.
- Added support for Google cookie authenticated feeds.
- Cross-feed duplicate detection improved for feeds with no guid.
- The rdf:about attribute is now treated as a unique identifier.
- Search plugins bundled with version 1.0.0 didn't work at all.
- Filters used in keyword watches were always treated as "match all".
- Removed unsupported countries from eBay plugin.
Download: Snarfer 1.0.2 (Freeware)
View: Snarfer Home Page
FileZilla 3.0.11
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more.
Changelog:
+ File list status bars showing number of (selected) files and directories along with total filesize
+ MSW: Installer improvements. The installer now remembers the installation options.
+ The update wizard now shows a list of changes in the new version
- Fix sorting issues of file lists
- Reduce CPU load if deleting or uploading many files
- MSW: Prefix search in file lists did not work with all characters
- OS X: SFTP didn't work if full bundle path contained spaces
- OS X: Fix odd dialog sizes
- MSW: Reduce flicker if resizing main window
- Improve compatibility with Cygwin's SSH server. Use Site Manager to select server type
- Correct position of queue size in statusbar
Download: FileZilla 3.0.11
View: Filezilla Home Page
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC 3
Mozilla developers decided today to spin a third Firefox 3 release candidate to ensure the next major update will meet users’ stability expectations.
This time, the showstopper was identified and reported last week on Mac OS X versions of Firefox 3 RC 2. The bug causes Firefox to hangwhen loading the plugin database in some special conditions on Mac OS X 10.5.3, the latest Mac OS X update released on May 28. I was unlucky enough to hit it so I, for one, appreciate the attention to this bug that is also present in Firefox 2.0.0.14.
The bug has been fixed and is already available in the latest RC3 builds. Windows and Linux users will get the exact same RC 2 build.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback.
Download: Firefox 3.0 RC3 Windows US English
Download: Firefox 3.0 RC3 OS X US English
Download: Firefox 3.0 RC3 Linux US English
View: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC 3 Home Page
Recuva 1.15.327
From the makers of CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Changelog:
- Fixed bizarre crash in filter box (if you press F4 twice).
- Fixed memory leak on FAT32 drives with large numbers of files.
- Fixed rare crash in secure deletion.
- Minor UI tweaks.
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Download: Recuva 1.15.327
View: Recuva Homepage
OpenOffice 2.4.1
OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.
Available in over 65 supported languages with more being constantly added by the community, OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), Windows, Mac OS X (X11), and numerous other platforms. Our porting page lists the platforms (ports) that OpenOffice.org can run on.
OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.
Download: OpenOffice 2.4.1 (Windows)
View: Openoffice.org
FileZilla 3.0.11 RC 1
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more.
Changelog:
+ File list status bars showing number of (selected) files and directories along with total filesize
+ MSW: Installer improvements. The installer now remembers the installation options.
+ The update wizard now shows a list of changes in the new version
- Fix sorting issues of file lists
- Reduce CPU load if deleting or uploading many files
- MSW: Prefix search in file lists did not work with all characters
- OS X: SFTP didn't work if full bundle path contained spaces
- OS X: Fix odd dialog sizes
Download: FileZilla 3.0.11 RC 1
View: Filezilla Home Page