Openbox is in need of some people to help test the upcoming 3.4.5 release.
If you are interested, please download openbox-3.4.5-test and report any bugs that you find to the Openbox Bugzilla so that they can be properly tracked.

When filing bug reports, please include the best way for the developers to reproduce the problem and check to see if a similar bug report as already been filed.

Current 3.4.5 Changelog:

• Updated Finnish, Russian, German and French translations
• Fixed some very minor memory leaks
• Hide the desktop popup when showing the focus popup
• Fix a crash when trying to access the More... menu of client-list-combined-menu
• Fix the coordinate popup only showing up on the first monitor in xinerama

I was recently looking around for a new light-weight web browser to possibly replace dillo on my laptop and I stumbled upon Hv3 (Html Viewer 3), a small Tcl/Tk browser powered by Tkhtml3.

I played around with it for awhile today and I have to say that I found it to be fairly decent despite the fact that it is still in its alpha stage. I am definitely going to keep my eye on Hv3 as I would love to see what the future has in store for it.

It is worth taking a look at and I am interested in hearing your experience and/or opinion regarding this browser.

Here is a screen shot comparison between the two browsers:

A preview release of Openbox 3.4 is available for anyone that wishes to give it a spin.

If you have not been keeping up with Openbox's development, here is your chance to see what you have been missing.

Please keep in mind that this preview will obviously not contain all of the changes for the upcoming release (e.g., XML-based themes). When Openbox 3.4 is released it will require changes to your configuration.

Download Openbox 3.3.990 (3.4 preview)
Upgrading to 3.4 Guide
View Changelog

Kazehakase is a lightweight and fast GTK+2 based web browser which uses the Gecko layout engine.

It contains an innovative set of features and has plans to eventually switch to a modular configuration so users can change rendering engines.

At first glance, Kazehakase does not seem that much different from other simplistic browsers like Epiphany. Everything a user is familiar with is right in front of them.

It appears that AOL's legal team had set its gaze upon Gaim again and the developers were forced to change the name of the instant messenger under a settlement agreement.

After a secret debate, they decided on the name "Pidgin" for Gaim itself, "libpurple" for libgaim, and "Finch" for gaim-text.

The change was unfortunately necessary in order for the developers to release the stable version of Gaim 2 which is expected to be out within the next two weeks.