Mozilla Firefox web browser 77.0 was released today with some new features and various security fixes.
Firefox 77.0 features:
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WebRender available by default on Windows 10 laptop with Nvidia GPUs (all screen sizes).
manage web certificates on about:certificate page.
There are also a number of bug-fixes and other changes, see the release note for details.
Download / Install Firefox 77 in Ubuntu:
For those prefer upgrading the pre-installed Firefox package, v77 package will be available in a few days for all current Ubuntu releases. At that time, upgrade Firefox via Software Updater (Update Manager):
Restart your machine and select boot with the previous kernel in boot menu ‘Grub2 -> Advanced Option for Ubuntu’. Then run command to remove Linux Kernel 5.7:
Need an indicator applet to display internet download and upload speed in the top panel of Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Shell?
NetSpeed used to be an old Gnome applet, then an indicator for Unity desktop. Now it’s a Gnome Shell extension that displays real time internet speed for all network interfaces.
For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, please scroll down and see the update method to install the net speed indicator.
Looking for a desktop weather application for Ubuntu desktop? My Weather Indicator is one of the great choices.
My Weather Indicator is an application especially designed for Ubuntu. It’s written in Python 3 and works on Plasma, GNOME, MATE, Xfce, etc.
The software displays current weather and the weather forecast via system tray indicator applet and desktop widget. Supported weather services include: OpenWeatherMap, Yahoo, wunderground.com, and World Weather Online.
To install the weather application, open terminal from your system application menu and run following commands one by one.
3.) The first launching My Weather Indicator will bring up the settings dialog. There you can setup your location, widget theme, weather services, auto-start, refresh frequency, etc.
Note: after clicking OK button, it can take a few seconds to show the desktop widget.
Uninstall:
To remove the PPA, either open Software & Update > Other Software or run command:
Modern GTK3 eBook reader Foliate 2.2.0 was released today with many great new features. Here’s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04.
Foliate 2.2.0 is a new major release that features:
Important security fix. Recommend to “Allow Unsafe Content” for old version.
Support for StarDict dictionaries.
And many other features, see release note for more details.
How to Install Foliate 2.2.0 in Ubuntu:
The software is available to install either via Snap package (in Ubuntu Software) or Flatpak package, both run in sandbox.
For those prefer Ubuntu .deb package, run following commands one by one to install it via the PPA repository.
1.) Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/foliate
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2.) Then refresh package cache and install the eBook reader:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install foliate
NOTE if you’ve installed an old version via the .deb package downloaded from github release page, remove it first due to different package name by running command:
sudo apt remove com.github.johnfactotum.foliate
Uninstall:
To remove the PPA repository, open Software & Updates utility and navigate to Other Software tab.
To remove Foliate ebook reader, simply run command:
Android Studio 4.0 was released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 20.04.
Android Studio 4.0 features a new Motion Editor, improved Layout Inspector, Clangd support for C++, smart editor features, enhancements to the CPU Profiler, Java 8 language library desugaring in D8 and R8, and much more other changes. See the release note for more.
How to Install Android Studio 4.0 in Ubuntu:
The containerized Snap package is available to install in Ubuntu Software for Ubuntu 18.04 and higher:
Don’t like Snap application? You can also install Android Studio 4.0 easily via Ubuntu Make.
1.) Install the latest Ubuntu Make:
Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA which contains the latest Ubuntu Make packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04.
It automatically downloads the software package and dependencies from Google and installs on your system for single use by default.
3.) Once installed, launch the IDE from ‘Show Applications’ menu. Restart you machine if you don’t see the icon, or run sh ~/.local/share/umake/android/android-studio/bin/studio.sh command to launch it from terminal.
Uninstall:
You may remove Ubuntu Make PPA by running command:
This quick tip shows how to enable Secure Shell (SSH) service in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, both desktop and server, to allow secure remote login and other network communications.
Ubuntu includes OpenSSH, a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol, in its main repositories. While OpenSSH client is installed out-of-the-box, you can do following steps to install and setup OpenSSH server in Ubuntu 20.04.
1. First open terminal and run command to install the packages:
sudo apt install ssh
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompt and hit Enter.
2. Once installed, SSH services start in background silently. You can check its status by running command:
systemctl status ssh.service
You may replace status in the code with stop, reload, restart to stop, reload, or restart the service.
3. The SSH service should be working good now for basic use! If you want to change the listening port, root login permission, or other authentications, run command to edit the configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
replace nano with gedit if you’re on Ubuntu Desktop.
Save changes by pressing Ctrl+X, then Y, and finally hit Enter. And remember to restart the SSH service via sudo systemctl restart ssh.service command.
Folder Color is a file browser extension allows to change the color and add emblem for selected folder.
Folder Color is available in Ubuntu universe repositories. However, it does not work very well in Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Yaru icon theme, since changing the color of folders will also change the icons.
The original developer has made the Yaru theme integration with Folder Color for Ubuntu 20.04, which can be installed via this PPA repository.
1.) Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, then run command to add the PPA:
Small and highly customizable twin-panel Sunflower file manager released version 0.4 after many years of development.
Sunflower 0.4 brings new interface based on GTK3. The code is ported to Python3. As a result of this rewrite performance has gone up as well.
There are still many issues in the new release. Emblems are completely missing, drag and drop is broken and keyboard shortcuts are broken due to some upstream problems. And these will be fixed in upcoming weeks.
How to Install Sunflower 0.4 in Ubuntu:
The file manager offers official .deb package that works on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04.
Grab the Ubuntu package and click install either via Software Install or Gdebi package installer.
Once installed, search for and launch Sunflower from ‘Show Applications’ menu and enjoy!