FireFox is now officially 1.0, with all the goodness you’ve come to expect from this impressive browser. You can get it at the official site, or from their bit torrent link … the most obvious change since the PR release is that some of my extensions need to be updated, and the home page has changed to a customized Google page.
Lots of other important apps have release new versions in the last couple of weeks:
To precede the FireFox release, the Thunderbird email client team released 0.9 a few days ago, and if you’re a Thunderbird user, or aren’t completely satisfied with your current email program (or are using Outlook Express), you should definitely consider switching. Thunderbird now has Saved Search Folders, and Message Grouping, as well as the ability to fetch multiple email accounts into a single global inbox or seperate per-account inboxes, optional integration with an RSS reader and NNTP so all your incoming messages can be in one place, plus really fast searching and the excellent EnigMail GnuPG signing/encryption plugin.
xplorerA? has released version 1.1 which is a free upgrade for registered users. The pro version now features tabs (as in: multiple folders open at once in tabs, and ragging and droping files between tabs) as well as dual panes, and has an impressive multithreaded copy function so you don’t have to stop and wait when you copy lots of file across drives or even networks.
Fedora Core linux distribution has reached the 3.0 milestone
Fedora 3 ( torrent) and includes the latest and best of everything: GCC 3.4, GNOME 2.8, KDE 3.3, Evolution 2.0, and Firefox and SELinux’s security extensions enabled by default!
If you’re still using zome other file-compression program, come over to TugZip, the best free zip utility out there, with awesome right-click support in your filemanager, and full support for the open source 7-zip format that compresses tighter than anything else! Of course, it also extracts rar, iso, nrg, tgz … etc.
If you’re using putty for telnet or ssh, you need to get the latest release which fixes a nasty security bug that was recently discovered. And of course, that means you also need to upgrade the FileZilla FTP client if you’re using it.