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Mozilla Firefox 160 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 160 introduces Mini Window, a feature that lets you move a tab or a selected part of a page into an always-on-top window while you browse, a new playback speed setting for the Picture-in-Picture player with options ranging from 0.25x to 2.0x speed, and support for playing Matroska (MKV) files with FLAC, MP3, or PCM audio.

Mozilla Firefox 161 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 161 looks like a small update that only introduces the ability to copy the current tab’s URL with a keyboard shortcut. No shortcut is assigned by default for this feature, so you can choose your own key combination in Firefox’s Settings, under Customize keyboard shortcuts.

Slax Linux Is Back with a Revamped Desktop, New Tools, and More

Powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, Slax Linux 2026.11 is based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and features a revamped look and feel with a redesigned application launcher and new tools for everyday tasks.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 8th, 2026

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Long-range Wi-Fi HaLow gateway offers OpenWrt and dual GbE

Morse Micro’s “HaLowLink 2” gateway runs OpenWrt on a MediaTek MT7621 processor with an MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow radio supporting ranges of up to 1km and PHY data rates of up to 43.3Mbps. Originally announced in September 2025, the gateway is now available through distributors including Seeed Studio, Mouser Electronics, and DigiKey.

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A United Tradition

Sack, sack, sack

Misuse of the Legal System Against Reporters

A game of money

Working With Fine Tools

“Teach a man how to fish…”

December 10th

Special day

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Manchester City Council ‘services’ aren’t really services, just pretence thereof or disservices

Peer, Not Manager

You won’t “own” other people

Busy Weekend for Techrights.org and TuxMachines.org

Probably lots of bots, too

Things Some People Do for Money (It’s Ugly)

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Yes, Women Can Buy Men Flowers

Why not?

15 Years

Life is easier in pairs

news

Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2026

Parish

Updated This Past Day

Updates:

  1. Salaries Are Counted in Money, Not in Participation in the Employer's Scheme
    articles greatly exaggerating GAFAM salaries
  2. Even Linux Cannot Cope With Slop
    Bots on the Web are truly obnoxious
  3. GNU/Linux Has Become More Mainstream in the United Kingdom
    It's a long weekend here and we guess some people dabble in GNU/Linux migrations, at least at home

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 30, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, August 30, 2026
  2. Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Holidays, Stream of Consciousness, and Posting Online
    Links for the day
  3. Anniversaries Next Month
    The month should be otherwise quiet and uneventful for us
  4. Coding is Not Obsolete
    we drown ourselves in chaff to meet "LOC" objectives while ignoring everything else
  5. Microsoft Layoffs Perpetual But Silent, People Pushed Out Using Pressure or Incentive Schemes
    Earlier this month we named some of the programs
  6. Links 30/08/2026: Apple Rant and LLM (Slop) Scrapers Target Gemini Protocol and Gopher
    Links for the day
  7. Walls in Free Software
    mind your own business and move on
  8. What a Summer!
    Tomorrow is the last day of this month
  9. Links 30/08/2026: Soldiers in Niger Attack Presidential Palace and Airport, Nepali City Struggles to Handle the Many Dead Bodies
    Links for the day
  10. Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux Rising to 11% This Past Week
    Is it the year of "Linux in China"?
  11. Links 30/08/2026: Russian Strike on a Ukrainian Warehouse and Rhetoric Escalations
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 30/08/2026: Photography, Paper Books, Linux Kernel and the Debian Projects Permitting Slop Plagiarism
    Links for the day
  13. Imagine a World Where Nobody Fights for Software (and Computing) Freedom
    The community keeps fighting back, so some of these ambitions are delayed or watered down
  14. FSF Has Grown (More Staff) After a Year of Financial Growth
    On October 4 the FSF turns 41
  15. SLAPP Censorship - Part 166 Out of 200: Garrett Wasn't Found Innocent Per Se, the Court Wanted More Evidence of Who Was Behind Particular Accounts Using Tor
    It's complicated
  16. Criminals Don't Obey Laws, California Does Not Enhance Online Safety
    It has been a while since we last mentioned so-called 'age-verification' laws
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 29, 2026
    IRC logs for Saturday, August 29, 2026

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