Mozilla Firefox announced new 135.0 release on Tuesday. See what’s new in this monthly release. The new release enhanced some features to make them work for all users. AI Chatbot, the experimental feature that’s introduced since Firefox 130, now is available to all users. Just go to Settings -> Firefox Labs, then select AI between […]
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to configure Nginx to block certain IPs or IP range from accessing your website, and block all others while only you (and specified IPs) can access the wordpress login pages. This site was under attack a few days ago. Someone made tens of thousands of […]
Midori web browser announced new 11.5 release recently with some exciting new features. Midori was a popular lightweight web browser that was default in elementary OS and Bodhi Linux. It’s now a free open-source Firefox derived browser developed by Astian Foundation, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The browser released new 11.5 recently, […]
A new monthly release of Mozilla Firefox web browser, version 134.0, is out today! Though, it’s not yet officially announced at the moment of writing. According to the Mozilla Github releases page, the new Firefox release added support for touchpad hold gestures for Linux. Meaning kinetic scrolling (aka momentum scrolling or inertia scrolling), the continuous […]
PHP, the popular scripting language for web development, announced new 8.4 release last week. Here’s how to install or upgrade to Php 8.4 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 to work with Apache2 or Nginx web server. PHP 8.4 introduced a number of new features such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, lazy objects, an object […]
This tutorial shows how to configure Ubuntu or other Linux to redirect certain URLs or domains to specific web browser, while leaving all others open in the default browser. When clicking an URL in email reader, chat app, and other apps, it by default opens the linked page in system default web browser. However, some […]
Firefox web browser announced new 128.0 release one day ago on Tuesday. This is a new monthly release that introduces some handy new features. They include context menu option to translate a selection of text. Rather than translate full web page, user can now highlight single or a selection of text, then use right-click and […]
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 […]