Showing posts with label alternate browsers for google chrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alternate browsers for google chrome. Show all posts

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Firefox 46.0 Released with the awaiting GTK 3 integration on Linux , more safe JS execution and much faster experience...

Firefox 46.0 Released
with the awaiting GTK 3 integration on Linux , more safe JS execution and much faster experience...



Mozilla released Firefox 46 with GTK 3 Integration , More Secure JS execution environment and many fixes to screen readers ,web RTC and many other svg fixes... read what things have changed in FF46..

April 26, 2016, saw the official release of Firefox 46.0, the latest stable release of the popular open-source browser. As firefox is a mainstay of many Linux desktop distros, plenty of users will be keen to see how these changes will impact their favorite browser.

As is often the case, a number of the updates apply fixes to edge cases and obscure bugs that most users won't notice. Nevertheless, these fixes are important. But 46.0 isn't just about obscure bugs nobody cares about, it also brings a number of security and UI improvements that will be welcome to many GNU/Linux users.

This version of Firefox brings GTK3 integration, which the Linux world has been awaiting for some time. GTK3 is the widget toolkit that powers several popular desktop environments, including GNOME, Cinnamon, LXDE and Mate. Incorporating the same toolkit into the browser means tighter integration and better support for customization.

The change is not just cosmetic either. Older machines sometimes struggle to run multiple UI libraries at the same time, and browsers already are notorious memory hogs. Upgrading to 46.0 could make your browsing experience smoother and faster.

Security is a vital issue and one that often clashes with feature-rich applications. This is definitely true when it comes to Web sites and Web applications. Modern sites tend to be very JavaScript heavy, with rich interfaces that offer native-like performance. Unfortunately, allowing JavaScript code to execute in the browser opens a number of security weaknesses that clever cyber-criminals can exploit. And, that's one reason why many security-conscious users choose to deactivate JavaScript.

Mozilla has taken a step toward making JavaScript a more secure platform with a significant change to the way memory is allocated by the SpiderMonkey JavaScript compiler. Continue Reading Full Articile @ linux journal

Install FF46 on Windows

Windows users can download Firefox 46 from Official website.

Install Firefox 46 on Ubuntu :

Linux Users Can Install or Update Firefox 46 From Their Distributions Official Repositories(Depends upon the Linux Distribution that It may takes one or two days to land New Firefox on Official Repositories.)

To install or Update Firefox on Debian and Ubuntu based systems : sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox

For Fedora

See.. How to install Firefox 46 on Fedora.

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Fix 'Failed To Fetch' Error With Google Chrome On Ubuntu And It's Derivatives

Fix 'Failed To Fetch' Error With Google Chrome On Ubuntu And It's Derivatives


'Failed To Fetch' Error With Google Chrome

Recently, while updating your Ubuntu or Ubuntu based systems, you might have come across an update error that says:

Fetched 65.9 kB in 5min 48s (188 B/s) W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

error while updating google chrome on ubuntu 14.04

Don't feel alone. This is a common issue faced by many after Google Chrome has ended support for 32 bit Linux system. We already know about it. This change was supposed to impact only 32 bit Linux systems but it seems that even users running Ubuntu 14.04 or higher on a 64 bit systems are also affected by this change.
While this error is tiny, trivial, it is highly annoying. Good news is that it is really easy to get rid of this pain-in-neck error.

Fix Failed to fetch issue :

The problem here is that in the sources list entry, by default, it is expecting the 32 bit package. This sound weird but it's true.What we need to do here is to change the sources.list entry for Google Chrome and explicitly instruct it to get

What we need to do here is to change the sources.list entry for Google Chrome and explicitly instruct it to get 64 bit package. How to modify the sources.list, you may ask.

Well, it's quite easy to do that. It can be done entirely in command line itself, but keeping beginners in mind, I'll show you how to do it with a graphical text editor.


step 1

Open a terminal and use the command below:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

This will open Gedit text editor and you'll see a file like this:



Step 2:

In here, all we need to do is to replace
" deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main " with the following line:

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

It should look like this now:



Step 3:

Save and close the file. Now run the update again using the command below:

sudo apt-get update

That's it.. You won't see the error again. Enjoy error-free updates now ☻



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Friday, March 4, 2016

Some Awesome Opensource Web Browsers... Worth to Try... (part 3)

Some Awesome Opensource Web Browsers... Worth to Try... (part 3)

11  rekonq

rekonq is a lightweight, QtWebKit-based web browser developed inside the free software project KDE. It is the default web browser of Chakra GNU/Linux.
rekonq aims to be a standalone and simple web browser. Its code was initially based on Qt Development Frameworks' QtDemoBrowser and is developed on KDE Projects' Git repository.

Available platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux

Features

    rekonq integrates into the KDE desktop, e.g. downloading files through KDE download system, sharing bookmarks with Konqueror, KIO support, etc. rekonq possesses most of the features of a modern web browser, specifically:

official website :

rekonq

12 . Brave 

Brave is an opensource web browser developed by Brendan Eich , Mozilla co-founder and Creator of Java Script Programing language.
It aims to block website trackers and remove intrusive internet advertisements, and replaces them with ads sold by Eich's company. The browser also strives to improve online privacy by sharing less data with advertising customers, targeting web ads through anonymized analysis of their browsing history instead. Brave also intends to pay 15% of the ad revenue to the browser users, which they can in turn donate to bloggers and other providers of web content through micropayments. As of 2016, it is currently in version 0.7(beta).

Available platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • OS X
  • Android
  • iOS

Features

  • Tabbed browsing
  • Content Blocking and Add blocking (by Default)
  • Better Privacy
  • Resource Friendly
  • Faster web page loading

Download links :

You can download Brave for Android ,iOS ,Windows and for OS X on official website of Brave Browser or You can download and test the latest version from git hub page.
official link :   Brave software
Github page : Git repository of Brave Browser

official website :

Brave

13 . Pale Moon 

Pale Moon is a free and open-source web browser based on Mozilla Firefox, available for Linux, Windows, and Android, developed and distributed by Dutch developer M.C. Straver. Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox, retaining the fully customizable user interface as seen in the previous era (4-28) of the Firefox browser, and focusing on the core tasks of web browsing. Pale Moon 26, uses the new web browser engine, Goanna , which is a fork of Gecko, the web browser engine of Firefox.
Because it is a fork of Firefox, Pale Moon is compatible with most (but not all) of the available Firefox extensions and plugins.

Available platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android

Features

  • Adds 64-bit computing support and hardware acceleration
  • Uses a user interface similar to the one Firefox 28 and earlier used
  • Support for firefox extensions(not all)
  • Exposes additional configuration options such as scrolling, status, and new features specific to this browser
  • Functional status bar and more freedom in customization
  • Offers a personalizable start page in cooperation with start.me
  • Supports Pale Moon-exclusive extensions and themes (e.g. Adblock Latitude)
  • Uses the IP-API service instead of Google's for geolocation
  • Uses DuckDuckGo instead of Google or Yahoo! as the default search engine

official website :

Pale Moon

14 

Dooble is a free and open source Web browser. Dooble was created to improve privacy. Dooble uses Qt for its user interface and abstraction from the operating system and processor architecture. As a result, Dooble should be portable to any system that supports OpenSSL, POSIX threads, Qt, SQLite, and other libraries.

Available platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • free BSD
  • OS X

Features

  • Bookmarks
  • Cookie Management
  • Download Manager
  • Distributed Search Engine
  • Encrypted and Authenticated Information
  • File Manager and FTP Browser
  • Gopher
  • Pass phrase
  • Plug-Ins
  • Proxy Configuration
  • Session Restoration
  • Third-Party Content Blocking

official website :

Dooble

15 . Web (Epiphany) 

Web (originally called Epiphany from 2003 to 2012) is a free software web browser for the GNOME desktop environment.

    The browser was forked from Galeon, after developers' disagreements about Galeon's growing complexity. Since then Web has been developed as part of the GNOME project and uses most of GNOME's technology and settings when applicable. It is part of the GNOME Core Applications. As required by the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), Web maintains the clean and simple graphical user interface with only a required minimum number of features exposed to users by default. The browser's functionality and configurability can be extended with official and third-party extensions.

    Web's source code is available under the GNU General Public License from the GNOME project. The binary builds of the browser are available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and BSD releases.

Available platforms

  • BSD
  • Linux
  • Unix & Unix-Like

Features

  • GNOME integration
  • Bookmarks
  • Modularity
  • Web Applications mode

official website :

Web(Epiphany)
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Some Awesome Opensource Web Browsers... Worth to Try... (part 2)

Some Awesome Opensource Web Browsers... Worth to Try... (part 2)

6  K-Meleon

K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox. K-Meleon is Free, Open Source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems.

Available platforms

  • Windows

Features

  • K-Meleon uses the native Windows API for user interface instead of Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language (XUL) layer, and as a result, is tightly integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop.
  • Simple and Highely costomizeable
  • Light weight
  • Better Privacy
  • Resource Friendly

official website :

K-Meleon

7  Konqueror

Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides file viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote FTP server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE Software Compilation. Konqueror is developed by volunteers and can run on most Unix-like operating systems and on Windows systems. Konqueror is licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

Available platforms

  • windows
  • Linux

Features

  • Webbrowsing using KHTML or KDEWebKit as rendering engines
  • File management using most of Dolphin's features (including version-control, service menus and the basic UI)
  • File management on ftp and sftp servers
  • Full featured FTP-client (you can split views to display local and remote folders and previews in the same window)
  • Embedded applications to preview files (e.g. Okular and Calligra for documents, Gwenview for pictures, KTextEditor for text-files)
  • Different kinds of plugins: Service-menus, KParts (embedded applications), KIO (accessing files using special protocols like http or ftp) and KPart-plugins (like AdBlocker...)
  • Customizable application

official website :

Konqueror

8 QupZilla

QupZilla is a new and very fast QtWebEngine browser. It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms. This project has been originally started only for educational purposes. But from its start, QupZilla has grown into a feature-rich browser. QupZilla has all standard functions you expect from a web browser. It includes bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar) and tabs. Above that, it has by default enabled blocking ads with a built-in AdBlock plugin.

Available platforms

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • BSD
  • OS X

Features

  • Native look & feel
  • Unified Library
  • Integrated AdBlock
  • Opera-like Speed Dial
  • Light weight & Fast

official website :

QupZilla

9 lynx

Lynx is a highly configurable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2015, it is the oldest web browser currently in general use and development, having started in 1992.

Available platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux (Unix-like)
  • DOS

Features

official website :

Lynx

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Some Awesome Opensource Web Browsers... Worth to Try...

Some Awesome Opensource Web Browsers... Worth to Try...

we all know that , how important world wide web is and how it integrated into our day to day life. One of the key component of word wide web is, web browser. And , In general , an open source browser are always(at least for most cases..) richer and awesome than proprietary one. here , i am going to list ,some of open source browsers i knew... and worth trying... Share Opensource Love ♥

1   Firefox

Firefox is a free, open-source web browser from Mozilla. It offers numerous features and customization options. Its performance is excellent, and it's designed to protect your privacy. and it is one of the most trusted web browser for security and privacy.

Available platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • OS X
  • Android
  • iOS

Features

  • Tabbed browsing
  • off line browsing
  • In built support for tracking protection
  • Live bookmarks
  • sync across devices
  • Private Browsing
  • In-line spell checker
  • Smart Location Bar
  • Built In PDF viewer

official website :

Firefox

2  Chromium

Chromium is the open-source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. The browsers share the majority of code and features, though there are some minor differences in features and they have different licensing.

Available platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • OS X
  • BSD
  • Android
  • iOS

Features

  • Tabbed browsing
  • Provides better privacy than Google chrome
  • Built-in Google store
  • Light weight
  • sync across devices(using Google account)
  • Private Browsing
  • Built In PDF viewer(from 47 th build)

official website :

Chromium Browser

3  GNU IceCat

GNU IceCat, formerly known as GNU IceWeasel, is a free software rebranding of the Mozilla Firefox web browser distributed by the GNU Project. It is compatible with Linux, Windows, Android and OS X. The GNU Project attempts to keep IceCat in synchronization with upstream development of Firefox while removing all trademarked artwork. It also maintains a large list of free software plugins. In addition, it features a few security features not found in the mainline Firefox browser.

Available platforms

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Android

Features

IceCat includes additional security features,
  • LibreJS
  • Https-Everywhere
  • SpyBlock
  • AboutIceCat
  • Fingerprinting countermeasures

official website :

GNU IceCat

4  Midori

Midori is a lightweight web browser. It uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK+ 2 or GTK+ 3 interface. Midori is part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies component and was developed to follow the Xfce principle of "making the most out of available resources". written in vala and C.

Available platforms

  • Linux
  • Windows

Features

  • DuckDuckGo as a default search engine
  • Internationalized domain names support
  • Smart Bookmarks
  • Light weight , lightning fast
  • Simple ,Customizable and extensible interface
  • Extension modules can be written in C and Vala
  • built-in privacy tools
  • Saves tab for the next session by default

official website :

Midori

5  Sea Monkey

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users. Under the hood, SeaMonkey uses much of the same Mozilla source code which powers such successful siblings as Firefox and Thunderbird. Legal backing is provided by the Mozilla Foundation.

Available platforms

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • OS X

Features

  • IRC Chat ("ChatZilla")
  • Data Manager
  • Sync Service
  • Native mail client
  • Lightweight themes (Personas)
  • Feed detection
  • Safe Mode
  • Multiple accounts

official website :

Sea Monkey
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