Tag: Chrome

• March 17, 2026MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  481 – Change For The Sake of Jim

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, March 2026; Major Redesign for Firefox: Chrome getting an upgrade; Debian 13.4; SUSE for sale - again; ASUS says MacBook Neo is “shock”; HBO, Paramount Merge; Xfwl4 coming to XFCE, and more.

  In security and privacy: Age Verification coming to your Linux PC?; Anthropic turns Claud loose on Firefox code.

• December 10, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  451 – Cinnamon Toast

  First up in the news: mintCast turned 16 while we weren’t watching, Mint 22.1 being tested, Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment released, US lawyers pushing Google to divest Chrome, El Capitan takes the lead

  In security and privacy: Hackers push fake BitWarden updates, Chinese hackers push Linux-focused WolfsBane, WordPress security flaw gives hackers admin access

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill cools the runnings, Joe cools his printer, Moss cools his ereaders, Majid gives in to temptation, and Eric finds value and delight in his secondhand hardware.

• August 21, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  444 – The News is HUGE!

  First up in the news: Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code, Google Search is playing Monopoly, Wordstar7 is open sourced, SuSE goes way long, Chrome blocks uBlock, GitLab is on the market and Funtoo is back (sort of)

  In security and privacy: Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers, and there are lots of zeros attacking Mac and Linux browsers

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill is broken down Joe goes virtual, Moss has stopped watching, Majid is in India and will be back next month.

• November 29, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  426 – Happy Birthday, mintCast!

  First up in the news: mintCast has a birthday, Mint 21.3 is named, Amazon works on a Linux fork for their devices, Ubuntu commits to Netplan, Firefox attempts Wayland, FreeBSD 14 is out, Endeavour releases Galileo, Vivaldi comes to Flathub, Google kills magazine content, OpenMandriva releases Rock 5.0, Pipewire reaches 1.0.0

  In security and privacy: Google Chrome’s Privacy Washing

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill may just be losing his mind, (there are doubts?), Joe prints everything but money, Majid does VR, Moss hangs on, and Eric spends more quality time with his Linux tablet.

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• July 19, 2023MP3, OGG, Podcast, Software

  416.5 – Browser Arousal

  In our Innards section we talk browsers

  And finally, the feedback

  In "Check This Out" a link to a cool project and a YouTube video worth giving a look

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