Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Now Available

All platforms: Hot off the press, the second beta of Firefox 3.1 is now available for download. In addition to Private Browsing Mode, tab tearing, and the speedy TraceMonkey Javascript engine turned on by default, the release notes list what else you get:

• This beta is now available in 54 languages.
• Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
• New support for web worker threads.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
• Support for new web technologies such as the

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

RetroShare: F2F- secure communications with friends

RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralised commmunication platform. It lets you share securely your friends, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages and channels

Why use RetroShare:

- You want to chat and share files securely with your friends

• Only your friends will be able to see and download files that you share.
• RetroShare is serverless, which means - unlike other messengers, you don't* need to register, complete annoying registration forms and receive tons of ads. Sending a key to your friend by e-mail is enough to set up your own IM network. This also means no IM spam, because people you didn't invite absolutely cannot connect.
• You can also use your favorite nick name either: no need to use cryptic names like "john.smith148@something.com" just because someone (whom you don't even know) snapped your favorite nick before you.
• RetroShare is encrypted, meaning high privacy: nobody, including your
  ISP, can see what files you're sharing.
  

- You need secure instant messaging and files exchange for a small workgroup. You need to chat securely and exchange files with other colleagues at work, but do not trust your data to a public chat network like Live or Google Chat ? Don't want a hassle of installing and maintaining your own chat server either ? Use RetroShare instead:
• RetroShare is serverless , which means that no server, ever, gets to see your data. Any IM server, no matter how secure, poses a risk of data leak because of hacker's attack. Retroshare completely eliminates this security risk associated with the IM server, without any added costs.
• RetroShare encrypts all connections, which means every bit of data is encrypted end-to-end. Unlike other products using self-made weak encryption, RetroShare uses a special version of industry standard Openssl library, trusted by banks and other organizations.
• Absolutely no vendor lock-in: you own your RetroShare network. There is no 3rd party vendor whom you have to pay, or who may go out of business and force you to migrate to another product.

Features

• Serverless, encrypted Chat & Filetransfer
• Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
• Search Friends
• Instant Chat Messaging

In-depth details:

• Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
• UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
• OpenSSL Encryption
• DHT support
• Styles support
• stylesheet support
• System tray integration

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