Mozilla: ArcticFox and Firefox 88 on POWER

• Riccardo Mottola: ArcticFox to browse on an iBook

  I did quite some work to have "--enable-altivec" work in ArcticFox. The FireFox AltiVec test did not work because it relies on GCC rejecting it if not supported by the CPU. Most of the work was getting the 32bit AltiVec code actually work during a 64bit compile on a PPC970. But what about a non-AltiVec build? WIth some #ifdef's imported from TenFourFox... I was able to get it and produce, while compiling on a G4, a usable G3 optimized binary for Linux.

• Mozilla Firefox drops FTP. Focuses on DRM, Censorship

• The Talospace Project: Firefox 88 on POWER

  Firefox 88 is out. In addition to a bunch of new CSS properties, JavaScript is now supported in PDF files even within Firefox's own viewer, meaning there is no escape, and FTP is disabled, meaning you will need to use 78ESR (though you get two more weeks of ESR as a reprieve, since Firefox 89 has been delayed to allow UI code to further settle). I've long pondered doing a generic "cURL extension" that would reenable all sorts of protocols through a shim to either curl or libcurl; maybe it's time for it.

Don't Miss: Ubuntu 21.04: What’s New? [Video]

Six months of development have gone into curating Ubuntu 21.04 and the release is backed by 9 months of security and core app updates. Ubuntu 21.04 isn’t a game-changing release. Despite the hirsute moniker there’s little nothing hair-raising included, perhaps save for the switch to Wayland — but even that isn’t as prickly as it used to be!

Nginx 1.20.0 Is Released

Nginx developer Maxim Dounin has announced a new stable release of the by-far most popular web server on the Internet with a brief change-log listing "1.20.x stable branch" as the only changes. There is a bit more to the latest Nginx 1.20.0 release than that. [...] Every website you visit is served by some kind of web server software. The Apache web server is still the kind of the kill and the go-to solution, it has dominated the web server market since 1995. Russian software engineer Igor Vladimirovich Sysoev released the first version of the BSD-licensed Nginx web server on October 4th, 2004. It gained a small user-base and went doggedly on in the Apache's shadow until it eventually overtook Apache in terms of total websites available on the Internet in April 2019. Nginx served 415 million websites or 35.34% of all websites on the Internet in March 2021 according to Netcraft, beating Apache's share of 317 million websites by a fair margin. Also: Natron is Alive and Releases v2.4

Android Leftovers

• 5 Android apps you shouldn't miss this week - Android Apps Weekly

• Samsung DeX keyboard shows up w/ three-device pairing - 9to5Google

• Android 12 update will automatically delete your apps, but it’s for a good reason | Express.co.uk

• Samsung Galaxy A31 starts getting the One UI 3.1 (Android 11) update

• T-Mobile's latest Android 11 update comes as a very pleasant surprise - PhoneArena

• Tecno Spark 7P with an Helio G70 chip, Android 11-based HiOS 7.5 launched

• Realme X3, X3 SuperZoom Android 11 Open Beta now available | TechRadar

• [Updated] Want to disable Tab Groups in Chrome on Android? Here's how

• Sony launches X75 Android TV series in India - The Hindu BusinessLine