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Firefox 160 released today with some new features. A new “Mini Window” option lets you move a tab or select a portion of a web page to an always-on-top window, so you can keep an eye on it while browsing. The feature is in beta and Mozilla invite feedback on it. Mozilla say the feature is “useful when you’re multitasking and need to keep a few sources of information in view a...

A new version of Extension Manager, the desktop app that makes it easier to browse, install and manage GNOME Shell extension without a web browser, has been released. Extension Manager 0.7.0 includes a number of welcome improvements, new features and restores a few nifty bits that had stopped working in earlier versions. With the new update, you can now find and open installe...

A new global menu extension for GNOME Shell was released this week, and unlike ones you may might tried (and given up on) in the past, this one seems to work well. Earlier global menu efforts have been scuppered by Wayland, API changes and the fact that many modern Linux apps no longer ‘export’ menus, leaving the top panel empty for most apps. This one has menus for 292 well-...

If you get bored and fancy a quick game of something, you can play one in Firefox’s address bar – one you know how. Mozilla’s browser boasts an easter-egg, as spotted by Soeren Hentzschel, that is only triggered when using the address bar’s calculator feature. Normally, the sum of a calculation appears with an icon to copy the value to your clipboard. But if that sum is 150, ...

A new version of mpv, the open-source command line media player is out. mpv v0.42 is now able to navigate DVD menus, and the two menu systems that Blu-ray discs use, HDMV and BD-J (the latter requires Java). DVD-Audio support was also added, a nich format that offers higher-resolution audio. Plus, if you have any .iso backups of DVDs or Blu-ray Discs, mpv 0.42 can play those ...