Version 6.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Linux.

Ubuntu users who want to try can now do so by installing Chromium, an open source project based on the Chrome code. has all the details, which will install the browser and also add the nightly build to your repositories. Some things don’t work yet like flash (although they are getting closer in nightly builds) and the ability to print.

Nevertheless, the browser itself is very nice and extremely fast. I find it is as fast, if not more, than Firefox. That said, this is before it gets boggled down with plugins, themes, and extensions like Firefox can become if you aren’t careful. I look forward to what comes next for Chromium and appreciate an open source port of another web browser.

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I like the new visual notifications in Ubuntu 9.04′s panel. However, this only works for selected processes and programs.  An Ubuntu user has created an extension to add Firefox notifications to Jaunty’s panel. This is very useful and will hopefully lead to other programs adapting similar extensions.

(Or do they already? Is there an easier way to get my programs to use Jaunty’s notifications in the panel?)

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A nice productivity tool I have been using lately in Firefox is the Greasemonkey script which adds a del.icio.us button to Google Reader. This allows me to quickly bookmark items to read later when I have more time. Using Greasemonkey I have been able to make all of Google products I use much better for my daily use.

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I don’t know what other users of Ubuntu do, but I know I prefer to have no windows sitting open on my desktop. Most programs I use on a daily basis allow, by default, moving programs to the system tray. Firefox, however, does not in either Windows or Ubuntu. The solution for this is the same in Ubuntu as it is in Windows: the Firetray extension. Make sure you are downloading the version for Linux (which I linked).

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If you don’t use the Forecast Fox plugin for Firefox (which I did up until a few years ago) a simple tweak to your Ubuntu desktop can get the weather posted in your tray. Ubuntu Tutorials has the quick and easy details for doing this. The only problem I can see is that it doesn’t localize very well. The closest I can get is Atlantic City, which as anyone who lives in south Jersey knows probably won’t have exactly the same weather as we do in Manahawkin. Otherwise, this is a good option for the Ubuntu desktop.

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• Scott Esposito reviews Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention Of Morel over at Boldtype.

• The New Yorker profiled Harold Pinter last winter.

Meanwhile…

• Jacket Copy covers Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, which just had a new book come out recently. I didn’t even know this series existed until recently but a lot of people seem to think it will be the heir to the Harry Potter series. But, seriously, a seventeen year old girl moves to a new town and falls in love with a vampire? I think I have seen this before. Hmm…

• Delicious (minus the dots) 2.0 has finally launched in the past few days. Ever since Firefox added tagging to their bookmarks I haven’t had a lot of use for it anymore, but I will check it out.

• George Orwell’s diaries are going to be blogged starting this week.

• Pinter’s Nobel lecture from 2005 is pretty righteous.

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Over the past few months I have been trying out a bunch of different browsers in Ubuntu. I liked how simple Epiphany is and Galeon seems to be basically Firefox with a toolbar of Google links. The main browsers I enjoyed, and still use, are, speaking of, Firefox, Opera, and Flock.

A quick overview:

Firefox 3.0 is a pretty massive upgrade from the previous versions. It is quicker, doesn’t crash as much, and uses a lot less memory in both Ubuntu and Windows. This is my day to day browser in both environments.

The newest version of Opera is very impressive. It is quicker than Firefox, arguably, and, according to Security Now, has a lot of new security features to keep up with scammers and criminals. The one main thing that keeps me on Firefox is the lack of plugins in Opera. Opera does offer widgets, but browsing with without the plugins I use in Firefox becomes tedious and annoying quickly.

Flock was a pleasant surprise. I have been hearing a lot of people discussing it positively and I think it is a nice “social” browser. Bringing all of my social networks and web based applications together in one interface is an interesting idea. I try to use almost everything via RSS, but it is still interesting to play with from time to time.

Other Ubuntu and Linux news:

• Gnome 3.0 was recently announced. Read more about it on Ars Technica.

• Ubuntu Tutorials has a good tutorial on removing programs from the main menu. I like keeping my menu tidy and this will make it really easy.

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