Firefox 155 is out, the first to arrive as part of the browser’s new twice-monthly release schedule. This update brings Firefox’s AI-powered Smart Window browsing mode to users in the USA, Canada and France. It’s still opt-in (for now), and is powered by your choice of AI model from Alibaba, OpenAI and Google. Mozilla’s also added changes to entice you to chat more (“personalised resume conversation starters”), made the assistant faster at responding with Exa web search citations and made the Smart Window Organise Tabs better at grouping related tabs. If none of that floats your boat, you can remove […]
Firefox 156 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images scaled down to fit a page.
Getting is planning to ‘sunset’ IRC as an official support method, and some long-time users aren’t happy. The recently Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS release announcement didn’t include a link to the Ubuntu Support IRC channel under its “if you have a question” section – though, from looking, the last announcement to list IRC was the one for Ubuntu 24.10). Even so: it led some to ask what the status of the #ubuntu-support channel on IRC Aaron Rainbolt, an Ubuntu Community Council member, said the omission was likely “accidental” in a reply posted to a followup discussion on Ubuntu’s Discourse, titled “Keep […]
Hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today is a new kernel scheduler patch series to enable preferred SMT siblings for NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores...
Mozilla Firefox 15 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for Happy Eyeballs v3 for faster page loading and many other changes.
Boycotting Google is easier to announce than to do. After the company’s Lake America move, this editor is going to find out what it takes. The post Poll: Google Goes “Lake America” — Are You Ready to Boycott Yet? appeared first on FOSS Force.
Rust Coreutils 0.11 was just released as this alternative to the GNU Coreutils. Besides the long-running task of catching up the GNU Coreutils compatibility with the GNU test suite and never-ending work on optimizing the performance, Rust Coreutils 0.11 is quite a nice release for its improved error messages...
The Mozilla Firefox 155 release binaries are now available ahead of the formal announcement on Tuesday for this latest web browser release. With Firefox 155 it's heavier on new features than we have seen in some time...
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