Ubuntu new folder icons are here – and you’re going to have opinions…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is refreshing its folder icons with a squatter shape and more colourful design – if past icon changes are anything to go by, not everyone is going to be thrilled. The restyled icons are among a number of visual changes to hit Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ daily builds in recent days. Redesigned LibreOffice app icons, new accessibility feature symbolics and an adaptive Calculator icon have also been introduced, alongside system-wide theme changes that pull Yaru closer to the style of vanilla GNOME Shell/Adwaita. But it’s the colourful new folder icons that most will have strong feelings over […]
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A public beta of Orion for Linux is now available to download and try. The WebKit-based web browser from paid search engine Kagi has been stable on macOS and iOS for a while, but a Linux port was announced last year, and Linux alpha builds made available for paying Orion+ subscribers in January. Now the beta is here and (almost) anyone can give it a go on Linux, not just subscribers. Orion isn’t a recoloured Chromium or another Firefox fork, but a native Linux app built in GTK4/libadwaita and WebKitGTK, with platform-level integration. The closest comparison would be GNOME Web […]
Some (not exactly subtle) changes on Firefox’s official social media accounts indicate that the browser is about to get a new logo – or a reputation for attention seeking. Avatars on the browser’s official social media accounts have changed from the familiar Firefox logo to an empty purple ‘globe’, which is the centre of the normal logo, sans the orange, flamed-tailed fox usually wrapped around. If you don’t quite see it, this animated reel shared on the Firefox Instagram account makes it much easier to see: Mozilla hasn’t explicitly said “a new logo is coming”, but it acknowledged its fox-less […]
The stable release of GIMP 3.2 is now available to download for all major desktop operating systems, Linux included. A year in the making, GIMP 3.2 brings a raft of long-awaited features that users of the famed open-source image editing tool will appreciate like non-destructive Link Layers, quick creation of Vector Layers from paths, and a better dynamic painting experience. “We’re happy to present the first release of GIMP 3.2,” the team says of the release, which has been a year in the making and is part of a new ‘streamlined’ release process: GIMP 3.2 is out a year after GIMP 3.0. That […]
Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices this year, Google has announced. If you currently run Ubuntu (or another Linux distribution) on an ARM-based device like the Raspberry Pi or a Snapdragon X Elite laptop, etc, you’ve had no way to install an official Google Chrome build, only Chromium, the open-source project on which Chrome is based. The lack of an official Google Chrome ARM build for Linux has always been puzzling given that Chromium supports ARM, and lots of Chromebooks are ARM-based. Today (12 March, 2026) the confusion can end. The search giant says its proprietary browser will […]
Firefox’s new AI-powered ‘Smart Window’ feature is taking shape in development builds – I gave it a hands on in the latest v149.0b7 beta (on macOS). Although Firefox 148 added an AI Switch, Mozilla is all-in on AI in now it’s part of its double-bottom line and a way to generate money. Firefox’s upcoming Smart Window is key to this, as it makes AI the primary interface for browsing. What follows is a hands-on with Smart Window in Firefox 149 beta, how it works, how it’s activated and why its ‘memory’ feature gave me the ick. Firefox’s new Smart Window […]