A pair of downloads for the adventurous:
- openSUSE Alpha 5 did get out yesterday (a day late, but that’s not a big deal), but assorted problems forced only two images to be released: the single DVD and Internet mini-ISO. I knew I should have gotten that DVD burner! Download Links for Alpha 5 are on the wiki. Beta 1 is due October 26.
- Mozilla put out Release Candidate 2 of Firefox 2.0, available here. I truly hope it’s in better shape than RC1. I’ve only tested it in WinXP (on my work machine), but had three nasty annoyances: The Download window, when it appeared at all, was empty! While most of my extensions worked, I was genuinely startled to learn that the one that didn’t was the del.icio.us tagger! Almost painful to lose that one, lemme tell ya. A co-worker tossed his RC1 out when his favorite themes died (OK, maybe that was hasty, but to each their own). I did like that practically all the features of Tab Mix Plus in Firefox 1 have been incorporated into the main product, and the feed-subscribe tools are great, too (clicking the RSS icon in the address bar puts up a dialog asking you if you want to subscribe via Bloglines, My Yahoo, Google, or a plain Live Bookmark). So, fingers crossed on this one. No immediate projection on a final release, but RC2 was actually a few days early.
More BarCamp stuff to come. Gotta go do my SUSE install now.
Please ask your friend to chill! There is a Fx extension called “Nightly Tester Tools” install that. Here’s what it’ll do: When you put in an extension that is not yet been bumped say Diggler the install box will have a check box on it.
It’ll read Install Using Nightly tester tools to overide incompatiblity. Check that
box,click install, then you’ll get a box that says something about the extension is installed restart Fx. After you restart Fx, Diggler in this case will be installed.
It’s me again Nightly Tester Tools works on Themes too!