Gmail progress bar

Gmail login box

Gmail Inbox

Impressed? If yes than you might want to try it out, install GoogleRedesigned extension from the extension’s homepage.

[via: globexdesigns.com. Thanks to Sash for the link.]

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The noticeable features include Ctrl+Tab 3D navigation browser, faster JavaScript performance, and Open a New Tab button just like Internet Explorer 7.

Ctrl+Tab 3D navigation browser is a welcome feature

If you want to give a try, here is how to install it in Linux:

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.1b1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.1b1.tar.bz2Update: From the official What’s New page:

Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine

Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties

A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to

Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search

Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Don’t forget to backup your profile so that you can restore if something goes wrong.

Open a new tab button

$ tar -xvf firefox-3.1b1.tar.bz2

$ cd firefox

$ ./firefox

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A friend of mine writes “…when I open some heavy sites with Firefox, my Ubuntu desktop gets freeze. I can’t close the Firefox so I find no other way than to restart my system. Aren’t there any other ways to unfreeze the system without restarting?”
Yes there are!


The most efficient way to unfreeze your system is to be patience. Don’t try to open other applications, when your system is not responding. Don’t press unnecessary keys. Go have a cup of coffee, get fresh and get back. You system might have already been unfrozen or a dialog box might be waiting for you to click on that Force Quit button. (I promise you won’t be greeted by BSOD!)

If you don’t have much patience or your system just can’t unfreeze automatically, then follow these steps:

1. Hit Caps Lock or Num Lock keys to see if your keyboard is responding, if it isn’t than you’re out of luck.
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+F2, you will be taken to a black&white terminal window. It will ask you for your username and password.
3. Type the following command to get the PID (process ID) of the program that is not responding (in this example Firefox)
   ps -A | grep firefox
4. It will display you the PID of firefox. You should get at least two PIDs something similar to:
   5961 ? 00:00:00 firefox-2
   5977 ? 00:01:12 firefox-2-bin
5. Now issue the following command to kill the non-responding firefox (its PID is 5977 in this example)
   kill 5977
   [update: If you hate working with numbers you can also kill the non-responding program by issuing: killall firefox-2-bin]
6. Re-check that you have successfully killed the non-responding program:
   ps -A | grep firefox
7. If it doesn’t show you anything, then you are done. To exit and get back to your Graphical System, press Ctrl+Alt+F7

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