This tutorial shows how to install the most recent Chromium web browser as native .deb package in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 22.04. Like Firefox and Thunderbird, the popular Chromium web browser in Ubuntu repository is a Snap package that runs in sandbox environment. For those who don’t like Flatpak and Snap packages, there are few […]
This tutorial shows how to install Brave web browser in Ubuntu in 3 different ways: Snap, Deb, and Flatpak packages. Brave is a free open-source web browser based on Chromium. It is a privacy-focused browser, which automatically blocks most ads and website trackers in the default settings. The web browser is available for Linux in […]
Mozilla announced a new monthly release of its Firefox web browser on March 19. In the new release, the caret browsing mode, keyboard navigating just like in text editor, also works in the built-in PDF viewer. The Qwant search engine has been expanded to all languages in the France region along with Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, […]
This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install the Floorp web browser in Ubuntu Desktop. Floorp is a new free open-source web browser forked from Firefox. It’s promoted as “the most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivative”. The browser is based on Firefox ESR. It’s updated every 4 weeks, with security updates […]
This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install Pale Moon web browser through its official Linux tarball in Ubuntu. Pale Moon is a free open-source web browser that was started as a fork of Firefox, but now completely diverged from Firefox. It retains the highly customizable user interface, continues to support […]
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install the latest version of Nginx web server (either mainline or stable) in Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop or Server. Nginx is a popular free and open-source web server, that can be also used as reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. For a […]
Mozilla announced new 122.0 release for its free open-source Firefox web browser this Tuesday! This is a new monthly release that include minor new features. For Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based systems, Firefox now provides official .deb packages through an apt repository. Meaning now, there are 5 official ways to install Firefox in […]
For Chromium user, the popular web browser is finally to allow VA-API hardware decoding for video playback in Linux Wayland. Chromium so far does NOT officially support VA-API Video Acceleration API on Linux. However, there are experimental flags to enable this feature, which might work on certain configurations, but without guarantees (See the official Docs). […]
Firefox web browser announced the new monthly 121.0 release this Tuesday! For Linux, the release finally default to Wayland session when available, meaning for Ubuntu 22.04 and higher (exclude Snap), Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with recent GNOME Desktop. With Wayland, it has better support for touchscreen & touchpad. User can use 2-finger swipe […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install Firefox Beta, Firefox Developer Edition, or Firefox Nightly in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, using the new official repository. Mozilla announced new official apt repository for Debian and Ubuntu users few months ago, which contains the .deb package for Firefox Nightly build. Now, the repository also contains packages for […]
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install LibreWolf web browser in Ubuntu and its based systems. LibreWolf is a free and open-source web browser fork from Firefox. The browser focuses on privacy and security, and has uBlocker ad blocker out-of-the-box. The browser website has an official guide for installing […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the Waterfox web browser from its official tarball & create app shortcut in Ubuntu Linux. Waterfox is a free open-source fork of Firefox, claims to be ethical and user-centric, emphasizing performance and privacy. The browser provides official Linux package through the portable tarball package, though a community maintained […]
Can’t wait to try out the new Thunderbird 115, but hate Snap and Flatpak packages? Here’s how to install it from Ubuntu PPA! Thunderbird 115 is a new major release series with refined look and feel. It now uses GNOME CSD style header bar instead of the old title-bar. Which has a more compact header […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install brave browser via the new apt source policy in Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04. Due to security issue, Debian changed its policy for adding apt sources. Ubuntu is changing the rules too. Since Ubuntu 22.04, it uses more secure key files with digital signature for system repositories and PPAs. […]
PHP finally released 8.2.0 release after 7 release candidates. Here are the new features and how to install guide for all current Ubuntu LTS. PHP 8.2.0 allows to mark a class as readonly, which will add the readonly modifier to every declared property, and prevent the creation of dynamic properties. Moreover, using the AllowDynamicProperties attribute […]
Remember Midori? The lightweight web browser that was default in Elementary OS and Bodhi Linux revived! Midori was a popular lightweight web browser used the WebKitGTK rendering engine and GTK UI toolkit. The development of the project was however discontinued more than 3 years ago. And, Ubuntu even removed it from system repository since Ubuntu […]
A new monthly release of Firefox web browser to be released soon! Users of Mozilla team PPA should already received the updates. Though it’s not officially announced at the moment of writing, user can however check what’s new in the release via the Github Releases page. And, here are the changes in Firefox 107 according […]
Mozilla Firefox got a new monthly update recently, with minor new features, performance improvements and some bug-fixes. According to the release note, Firefox 104 adds one more video site, Disney+, for displaying subtitles in the pop-out videos (Picture-in-Picture). When the browser is minimized or occluded, and for background tabs, the UI will now be throttled […]
The Chromium browser package (Snap version) in Ubuntu Software is missing VAAPI hardware decoding support. Ubuntu developer team is finally working on get the feature back! As you may know, Ubuntu now includes the chromium web browser in the system repository as Snap package that runs in sandbox. However, the package is missing the graphics […]
Mozilla Firefox 102 is available to download now. See what’s new and how to install the browser package. For Linux users, Firefox 102 now support Geoclue if available for geolocation. The release also added subtitles and captions display in Picture-in-Picture (pop-out video) for more websites, including HBO Max, Funimation, Dailymotion, Tubi, Disney+ Hotstar, and SonyLIV. […]