Microsoft Office 2010 reaches Release Candidate stage
Microsoft Office 2010 has been shaping up very good. It’s public beta release was mentioned earlier.
Officials at Microsoft have confirmed to Neowin that Office 2010 has reached the Release Candidate stage. This coming in just a few days after Office 2010 RTM escrow build 14.0.4734.1000 leaked through torrents.
Keep it coming MS!
How to disable “open new tab next to current active tab” in Firefox 3.6
A reader, Mukesh sent an email saying that he just upgraded to Firefox 3.6 and now the tabs are opening next to each other instead of old Firefox behaviour i.e. tabs opening from links via middle click etc. at very end of the tab bar/at right in Firefox. This can be a bit confusing for old Firefox users, although it’s a good change since one will know which group of tabs is it, i.e. of a particular website.
Anyhow, the reader wants to know if there is any way of changing this behavior, there sure is when you mention Firefox. Given below is the method to change the new behavior of Firefox so it opens new tab at far end/right side of tab bar instead of opening it next to current active tab.
1. Open Firefox, type about:config in address bar.
2. Don’t worry, that’s a standard warning, just click I’ll be careful, I promise! button.
3. Paste browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent in Filter area, so its filtered out for you. The default value for this will be true. You just have to change the value to false, simply by right clicking browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent and selecting Toggle, so the value is changed to false.
4. Close the tab and restart Firefox, you are done!
Hope this helps you Mukesh (and of course other readers too).
Fasterfox for Firefox 3.6
Fasterfox 3.1.2 & Fasterfox Lite 3.8.2 for Firefox 3.5.4/3.5.5/3.5.6/3.5.7/3.6
Fasterfox Lite: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148
Fasterfox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14833
The last one was mentioned by Markoi in comments here, with thanks to him. Simply visit any of the above, click “Let me install the experimental add-on” and let it do the magic for you =). Its not experiment per se, I have been using it since a long time without any problem.
Firefox 3.6 Downloaded 17 Million Times in the First Week
Firefox 3.6 has been out for almost a week now, but the latest major release is proving less popular than its predecessors, at least it terms of downloads, if only slightly so. This isn’t completely surprising as 3.6 is more of an evolutionary build which, while coming with quite a few new features and updates, is still a much smaller release than either 3.0 or even 3.5. By now, according to Mozilla’s own numbers, over 17 million people grabbed the latest and greatest Firefox. Technically, it’s not necessarily 17 million people as the same guy could have downloaded it 10 times. On the other hand, another guy could have downloaded it once and installed it for his entire family.
Of course, the bulk of it came in the first couple of days when eager enthusiasts grabbed the final version of Firefox’s latest iteration. In its first day of availability it, Firefox 3.6 was downloaded 4.5 million times, 66 percent of them by downloading the installer from the Mozilla page and 33 percent by using the “Check for Updates” feature inside the browser.
That sounds like a decent number of people, but considering that when Firefox 3.5 came out it managed to snatch 5 million downloads in just the first day, it doesn’t really sound that impressive. To put things in further perspective, Firefox 3.0 got 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours, setting a Guiness World Record in the process.
In the first two days, Firefox 3.6 was downloaded more than 6 million times. Things wined down a bit after that, but it’s still spreading at a healthy pace adding 2 million downloads just from last night, during daytime in the US, from where Firefox 3.6 got the most downloads, almost 3.5 million so far. Expectantly, the runner up in the country rankings is Germany with a little over 2 million downloads. Firefox is extremely popular in Germany and is already the majority browser. After the latest IE security scare numbers picked up even more in the country, so it looks like Firefox still has room to grow.
How to Install Chrome OS in Windows 7
Guide by Redmond Pie via ChromeandChromeOS.com
Step 1: Download and install the latest version of VirtualBox for Windows 7. (download link)
Step 2: Download .vmdk file for Google Chrome OS. (from gdgt)
Step 3: Start VirtualBox and click on “New” button. This will start a wizard that will help you create a new VM in VirtualBox.
Step 4: Name your VM “Chrome OS” and select “Linux” from Operating System dropdown menu, and “Other Linux” from Version dropdown menu.
Step 5: Assign your VM some Ram in megabytes. For this tutorial, I have allotted Chrome OS VM 512 MB of Ram.
Step 6: Now Select “use existing hard disk” option and select the .vmdk file of Chrome OS that you downloaded in Step 2.
Step 7: Click Next and finish the wizard.
Now simply click on the green colored “Start” button as seen in the screenshot above and wait for about 7 seconds for Chrome OS to boot up. You will need a valid Google ID to login into the operating system.
