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Mozilla Firefox 64 bit benchmark beats chromium 17

2012-01-03T05:14:00.000-08:00

Today I am going to share World most trusted browser Firefox benchmark. Today every browser is going to be fastest as possible. Chrome is releasing cycle is to short now Firefox is also following the same game.

My Test Machine:
Acer emachines e732z
Intel dual core 2.13 GHZ
2GB DDR3 Ram
OS :OpenSuse 12.1 Gnome
Browser : Firefox 8 64 bit

Note : Result very on system , if you have faster system result will be better.

Acid test :
Now firefox got 100% in this test ,improving its previous record 97%

Sunspider :

Content Version: sunspider-0.9.1- excellent 297.9ms

Opera's 11.52 64 bit result were very close

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 320.7ms +/- 1.2%
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chromium 17 64 bit was 378.44ms

Google's V8 benchmarch

Firefox Score

Score: 3430

Richards: 5048
DeltaBlue: 3435
Crypto: 5492

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Google Start Indexing Co.cc urls

2011-12-09T23:36:00.000-08:00

Good news for co.cc domain user. recently google ban co.cc and its sub domain due to some security reason as Google thing co.cc is prone to attack or mass spaming risk.
Thats why google was deindexed all co.cc url. Now it started crawling co.cc urls.
for example you can click visit Google to get result. so start optimizing your website for indexing follow w3c rules for validation and get good Page Rank. If you want any SEO related problem please mail me oopsphp@gmail.com.
My brand new website http://www.openplus.in seo friendly and it passed W3C validation test.

Source : http://www.cellguru.tk

World most Popular Distro RED Hat Releases its 6.2 version:

2011-12-09T23:10:00.000-08:00

World most Popular Distro RED Hat Releases its 6.2 version:

Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, an updated version of the world's most widely deployed enterprise Linux distribution: "Today Red Hat announces the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, which delivers to customers a second wave of feature enhancements and demonstrates the continued value that Red Hat delivers as part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 life cycle. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 delivers significant improvements in virtualization, resource management and high availability, and offers new features in storage and file system performance and identity management. The key benefits for organizations employing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 are higher levels of efficiency realized through resource management and performance optimization." See the release announcement and the press release for an overview of the release and read the release notes for technical details. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 is available from Red Hat Network (for existing subscribers); new customers can obtain the product on a 30-day evaluation basis from the product pages.

Source: www.distrowatch.com

Distro Realese : Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1

2011-05-21T23:59:00.000-07:00

RED HAT 6.1

Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1, the first update of the RHEL 6 series: "Red Hat, Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, the first update to the platform since the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in November 2010. In addition to performance improvements, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 also provides numerous technology updates, including: additional configuration options for advanced storage configurations with improvements in FCoE, Datacenter Bridging and iSCSI offload; enhancements in virtualization, file systems, scheduler, resource management and high availability; new technologies that enable smoother enterprise deployments and tighter integration with heterogeneous systems...." Read the press release and the release notes for detailed information about the product. As always, existing RHEL customers can upgrade to 6.1 via the usual upgrade channels or download the new set of DVD images from Red Hat Networks. An evaluation edition is also available.

Source : http://www.distrowatch.com

Hardware support :

USB 3.0

The implementation of version 3.0 of the Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) specification is a fully supported feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. USB 3.0 support was previously considered a Technology Preview in previous releases.

CPU and Memory Hot-add

On Nehalem-EX, hot-adding of CPUs and memory is now fully supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Note, however that the hardware must also support hot-adding. Damage may occur from an attempt to hot-add CPUs or memory on hardware without support for hot-adding.

Driver Updates

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 features a wide range of driver updates, including updates to the following device drivers:

ixgbe driver for Intel 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network devices
mlx4 driver for Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand hardware, providing support for Mellanox Connect X2/X3 10GB devices
be2net driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps network devices
bnx2 driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II network devices, including support for Advanced Error Reporting (AER), and PPC support for 5709 devices
bnx2i driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI
bnx2x driver for Broadcom Everest network devices
igbvf and ixgbevf Virtual Function drivers
tg3 driver for Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet devices
bfa driver for Brocade Fibre Channel to PCIe Host Bus Adapters
bna driver for Brocade 10G PCIe ethernet Controllers
cxgb4 driver for Chelsio Terminator4 10G Unified Wire Network controllers
be2iscsi driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine 2 Open iSCSI devices
be2net driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps network devices
lpfc driver for Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs
e1000 and e1000e drivers for Intel PRO/1000 network devices
Intel Iron Pond ethernet driver
Intel Kelsey Peak Wireless driver
Intel SCU driver
megaraid_sas driver for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers
mpt2sas driver for the SAS-2 family of adapters from LSI Logic

source: http://www.redhat.com

KUBUNTU 11.04 Review

2011-05-20T21:23:00.000-07:00

Kubuntu 11.04

The Ubuntu 11.04 release is getting tons of attention thanks to the switch to Unity as the default desktop interface. But what about the rest of the Ubuntu family? While the main Ubuntu release is far and away the most popular, that doesn't mean that it's the only arrow in the 'buntu quiver. For users who want a more traditional Linux desktop, have older hardware, or just happen to have much love for Xfce — there's Xubuntu. And it's looking pretty good as of the Natty Narwhal release.
I won't dwell on the pros and cons of Unity here, but suffice it to say that more than a few Ubuntu users are not quite ready to move to Unity. For some, the 3D requirements rule out their hardware. For others, the interface is just too much a departure from what they're used to with the standard GNOME 2.x desktop they've been using with Ubuntu for some time.
With Xubuntu, you don't get an exact replica of the GNOME desktop — but it's a pretty slick desktop in its own right that offers a similar experience, with the added benefit that it doesn't require 3D and is pretty snappy even on lightweight hardware.

Getting Xubuntu

If you want to install a clean system, then you can grab ISO images for Xubuntu from the Get Xubunut page. You'll find x86 and AMD64 images, as well as alternate images for systems with less than 64MB of RAM, or have other weirdness. (Or if you just like using the alternate installer. Who are we to judge?)
Already have Ubuntu? Then it's as simple as installing xubuntu-desktop and you get an Xfce alternative alongside the standard desktop.

The Xubuntu Experience

I've used Xfce for many years, off and on, and I have to say that the Xubuntu distribution of Xfce is really nice. The default theme is very attractive, and I like the way it's been configured. Up top you have the Xfce application menu, and on bottom you have a "dock" with some of the more frequently used (or so they assume) applications like Firefox, GIMP, Thunderbird, the Xfce Settings manager, and so on.
Let's talk default applications for a moment. Naturally, Xubuntu settles on Firefox 4.0 as the default Web browser — it's the best choice for any Linux distro. That's largely where the similarities end with the default Ubuntu applications. Instead of bundling Evolution, the Xubuntu folks provide Thunderbird (which I consider a much better choice). You have Thunar as the default file manager, which provides a full featured file manager that's still pretty resource friendly.
Instead of Banshee or Rhythmbox, Xubuntu ships with the Parole Media Player, and gmusicbrowser for video and music, respectively. I haven't had.....................
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WYSIWYG Web Editor for Linux

2011-05-20T21:17:00.000-07:00

If you're looking for a WYSIWYG Web Editor for Linux, look no farther than BlueGriffon. The recently released 1.0 of BlueGriffon brings an impressive toolset to Web designers and other users who want a slick, open source, Web Editor.
For some users (like me) Vim or another text editor is all that's wanted for creating Web pages or working with CSS, etc. If it was good enough for Web pages in 1999, why change? But not everybody is happy with technology that was cutting edge when Flock of Seagulls were popular.
Many users have cut their teeth using WYSIWYG tools, and don't want to wrestle HTML and CSS code. There's certainly been plenty of demand for a WYSIWYG editor — and now we have one, BlueGriffon. Actually, it's not the first on the scene — there was Nvu, but it fell by the wayside after the sponsorship from Linspire dried up. BlueGriffon is sort of a continuation of that, since it's the same developer leading the effort.

What is BlueGriffon?

BlueGriffon is a Mozilla-based "content editor" for the Web. The core application (as opposed to add-ons, which we'll cover in a minute) is tri-licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.1, the GPLv2, and the LGPLv2.1. It uses the Firefox Gecko rendering engine for its WYSIWYG view, and seems to inherit quite a bit of other code from Firefox as well.
In terms of looks and feel, BlueGriffon seems quite a bit like Nvu, and Mozilla (and Netscape) Composer before it.
But it's been updated quite a bit since the Composer days. It's set to handle any of the current HTML/XHTML specifications. I hesitate to use the "HTML5" moniker, since that's so overused to mean so many things today, but BlueGriffon does have support for elements in the current HTML5 specification. That includes support for embedding audio and video using HTML5 elements.
BlueGriffon also includes an SVG editor, support for CSS up to CSS3 — including a CSS parser (JSCSSP) that is meant to ensure that its CSS is valid for all browsers — not just Firefox. I'm not a CSS expert, but in playing with BlueGriffon a bit, it seems that you can produce some really interesting results without having to know much (if any) CSS at all.
These days you not only need a Web site that's optimized for all the desktop browsers, but also a site that renders well in.........
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Linux Tutorial -Using the Secure Shell

2011-03-15T23:58:00.001-07:00

Using the Secure Shell Source: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110307

Secure shell, specially the OpenSSH implementation of secure shell, is an important and valuable tool. This holds true largely because of the security it provides us for common tasks, but also because OpenSSH is so portable, enabling it to function on most modern operating systems. OpenSSH was originally forked from OSSH and developed for the OpenBSD operating system. Since its début in 1999, OpenSSH has been ported to Linux, to other BSD projects and to proprietary operating systems. Chances are if you're reading this from an open source operating system you have an OpenSSH component installed.

What's so important about OpenSSH? It used to be most network services sent their data in plain-text, completely open for anyone to read. While this was fast and convenient (and easy to debug) it wasn't secure. Logging into a remote machine meant sending usernames and passwords over the lines without hiding them in any way and transferring files in the open made it fairly easy to intercept them. OpenSSH encrypts its traffic, preventing people from listening in and gathering your login credentials or copies of any files you're sending over the network.

All of this may sound a bit abstract so I'd like to share a handful of examples of how OpenSSH can be used to communicate with a remote machine. In the following examples I'll be communicating with a remote server named "harold". For these examples to work the remote machine, harold, must be running the OpenSSH server and be able to accept connections on port 22.

Perhaps the most common usage of OpenSSH is logging into a remote machine to run command-line programs. System administrators often perform updates, check logs and change configurations this way. To do this we run

     ssh harold

The above example is secure shell invoked in its most simple form. Should we be connecting to a server where our username is different than our username on the local machine we can use the "-l" option. For example, if we wish to login to the remote machine as the user "susan" we would run

     ssh -l susan harold

In both cases presented above we will be prompted for a password and then given a terminal prompt on harold. When we are finished working on the remote server we can run "exit" to return to working on our local machine.

Another common usage of OpenSSH is the transfer of files between computers. There are two ways to do this. The first is to set up an interactive connection to the remote machine using the sftp command. A sftp session works much the same way as plain FTP, providing an interactive experience, but sftp encrypts the traffic between the machines, including our password. To start a secure file transfer session we use

     sftp harold

Alternatively, if we have a different username on the remote host, we can use

     sftp susan@harold

When using sftp we terminate the secure session using the "quit" command. If you're not familiar with using command line file transfer programs, there are graphical clients, such as gFTP or Filezilla, that make the process more intuitive. Another way to transfer files is with the secure copy command, scp. The scp command works much the same way as the "cp" command line program, but with the ability to work over a network. In the following example we copy a file, test_file.txt, to our home directory on harold.

     scp test_file.txt harold:test_file.txt

As with ssh and sftp we can send data to the remote machine as another user:

     scp test_file.txt susan@harold:test_file.txt

In other instances we may wish to copy files to a remote directory besides our home. In those cases we can specify the directory we want to use after the server name. This example copies our text file to our Work directory on the remote computer:

     scp test_file.txt harold:/home/jesse/Work/

The scp command works the other way too, allowing us to copy remote files to our local machine. In this example we copy a text file from harold and save it in our current working directory.

     scp harold:test_file.txt local_copy.txt

Sometimes administrators find themselves wanting to perform the same commands on multiple remote machines. There is a handy tool called ClusterSSH which will connect to several remote servers and send commands we type once to each machine. Bill Childers has a good tutorial on setting up and using ClusterSSH. I recommend reading it if you find yourself managing multiple machines.

Potential Open Source License Violations In Android and iOS Apps?

2011-03-08T11:37:00.001-08:00

One of the reasons a lot of big companies shy away from using open source software is because the plethora of open source licenses can make things confusing. The licenses themselves can be confusing, as there are a lot of grey areas with very little case law to help make things clear. Some open source licenses are compatible with certain other open source licenses, but completely incompatible with others. Of course, open source software does get used, intentionally and unintentionally, in a great number of commercial products, and I think we’re seeing more and more companies figuring out how to “Do The Right Thing” with respect to license compliance.A report unveiled today at AnDevCon, an Android developer conference in San Francisco, raises some questions about the use and misuse of open source software in apps for both Android and iOS devices. OpenLogic, a company that advocates.......

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Speedier, Easier Google Chrome Browser Now Out Of Beta

2011-03-08T11:35:00.001-08:00

Three weeks ago, Google kicked off the Year of the Rabbit with a beta version of Chrome 10. Today, the company is launching a stable release of the upgraded desktop browser solution, which it points out comes with a speed boost that corresponds to a…

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Android Honeycomb's music app extracted, brings cloud sync and streaming to phones

2011-03-07T23:30:00.001-08:00

Those who are familiar with Android Honeycomb might have already come across its music player's cloud syncing feature, though previous attempts to port said app to phones hadn't been successful. Whatever it was that kept crashing the app back then,…

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Mozilla Firefox 4 beta 9 beats Google Chrome 10 in terms of benchmarks

2011-01-24T10:57:00.000-08:00

A web browser is the gateway to internet world , so each and every company is giving their best to make their browser fast, stable and with tons of feature. forget the era of IE6, now browser are a lot faster, stable , light and took less memory. In this blog I am going to discuss two browser market's best Firefox's beta 9 and most innovative browser Google chrome 10.

Images were taken from Google image Search

Sunspider-0.9.1 test (lower is better)

Sunspider-0.9.1 benchmark score for Google chrome 10 - 559.2ms ,
Sunspider-0.9.1 benchmark score for firefox beta 9 - 527.1ms ,

here winner is Mozilla Firefox beta 9.
Want to test your browser for Sunspider test then visit here http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

Acid3test
Google Chrome - 100/100
Mozilla Firefox -97/100
Here winner is chrome but firefox manage to get 97/100 may be in its final release can score 100/100.
want to test visit here http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Dromaeo JavaScript Tests(higher is better)
Google Chrome - 118.19runs/s (Total) Result
Firefox - 184.77runs/s (Total) Result
Winner here is Firefox.
want to test visit here http://dromaeo.com/?dromaeo

Kraken JavaScript Benchmark Results(lower is better)

Google Chrome - 27852 ms (Total)

Firefox - 21986.32 ms (Total)

Winner here is Firefox.

want to test visit here http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org/

Conclusion:

In my test Firefox is winner , its now in beta so there always remain some big expectation for final release. Please post your views, critics, suggestion through comment. I have above given you the link so you can also test your favorite browser benchmark.

My System Specification :AMD Athlon single core 3000+ ; MSI mother board; 1GB DDR1; Hard Disk 80GB @7200rpm; 15" Samsung CRT Monitor; Graphic Memory 64MB.

Creating Swap File/ Partition with out re-installing the system

2011-01-23T09:28:00.000-08:00

Creating Swap File/ Partition with out re-installing the system
You can add swap space without re-installing. Before we look at that option, let's explore some other possibilities. For instance, if you're right on the border of having enough memory you might look at reducing the amount of physical RAM you need. If you're using one of the heavier desktop environments (GNOME or KDE) you can save quite a bit of memory by switching to Xfce or LXDE. Depending on the machine you have and your resources, you might also look at adding more RAM to your computer. In an ideal world we want to keep our data in RAM, rather than rely on swap space.

However, if you do need to create some swap space it's not required that you give swap its own partition. Modern versions of the Linux kernel have greatly improved performance when it comes to accessing swap files. This makes creating a swap file far more appealing than re-installing or resizing your existing partitions to make room for a swap partition. Let's walk through the process of creating a 1 GB swap file.

First we need to create an empty file, 1 GB in size. We do this with the dd command. You will need to have root permissions (or sudo access) for the following commands to work:

     dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/my_swap bs=1M count=1024

In this case the "1024" means we're creating a 1GB file, "512" would result in a 512MB (half a GB) file, "2048" would create a 2GB file, etc. Next we have to format our file so it can be used for swap space.


   mkswap /mnt/my_swap

We now have a swap file and we need to tell the system to start using it.

     swapon /mnt/my_swap

The next step is to make sure your operating system remembers to use this swap file again after you reboot the machine. We do this by opening the file /etc/fstab in a text editor and adding this line at the bottom:

     /mnt/my_swap none swap sw 0 0

Save your changes to /etc/fstab and you're done. The next time you boot the machine you can run

     swapon -s

to make sure your swap file is in use. The "swapon -s" command displays all swap spaces currently in use and you should see /mnt/my_swap listed in the command's output.
[Via Distrowatch.com link]

Fastest OS Puppy Lucid 5.2 Quick review

2011-01-07T07:37:00.000-08:00

Barry Kauler created Puppy Linux, bringing out version 0.1 in June 2003. Now Puppy Linux

reached its Lucid 5.2 version, an independent, minimalist Linux distribution for the desktop.

What Makes Puppy Lucid 5.2 ?

Over 3 Months in Development - Over 230 pages in the forum - Over 50 contributors

Screen shot of Puppy Lucid 5.2 :

Puppy Lucid 5.2

Full Size Image

Also Read Fastest OS on the world its Puppy 5 Lucid

What's New in This release :

New Quickset dialog to easily setup your system (language/locale and keyboard settings, timezone, video resolution)
Browser Installer
Browser-Default............

Distro Release - Parted Magic 5.8

2011-01-02T21:24:00.000-08:00

Parted Magic 5.8

"After several months of work, a new version is ready for release. Many bugs have been fixed and many core programs have been updated. You will notice the Linux 2.6.36 kernel and the newest version of the Gnome Partition Editor (GParted). There is also a mess of new stuff as well. Parted Magic now includes the SciTE text editor! For the first time the ISO image can be fully loaded into RAM and Booted. This means, for example, that the default syslinux menu can be used for a PXE boot.

The following programs have been updated: clonezilla-1.2.6-40, plpbt-5.0.11, psensor-0.4.4, linux-2.6.36.2, busybox-1.17.4, nwipe-0.03, simpleburn-1.6.0, syslinux-4.03, clamav-0.96.5, e2fsprogs-1.41.14, gparted-0.7.1

These are the new programs that were added: zerofree-1.0.1, cmospwd-5.0, open-iscsi-2.0.871, hfsprescue-0.1, gscite223. "

Source : http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=news

Parted Magic 5.8 Screen shot

Parted Magic 5.8

Download (MD5): pmagic-5.8.iso (148MB).

Puppy Linux 5.0 Wary Edition with Screen shot

2011-01-02T21:12:00.000-08:00

Barry Kauler, the father of Puppy Linux, has just announced today, December 29th, the immediate availability for download of the Wary edition of the Puppy Linux 5.0 operating system. This edition of Puppy Linux is intended for older hardware!
Puppy Linux 5.0 Wary is an operating system based on Ubuntu OS, but it will allow users to install applications from the Ubuntu software repositories.
Puppy recently show its worthiness in tech world , its seems it took the tag of Fastest OS on the world its Puppy 5 Lucid. Lets see how fast is its wary edition.

Read the release announcement for details information.

Screen shot of Puppy 5 Lucid

Puppy 5 World Fastest OS

DOWNLOAD Puppy Linux 5.0 Wary

Wary-500.iso (124MB, MD5)

Linux Mint Debian (201012) released!

2010-12-26T00:46:00.000-08:00

Linux Mint released its Debian based distro (201012). It is their own distro taking Debian as development platform and actually they also got huge Linux user support. Linux Experts is also seeing opportunities in its Debian version.

Linux Mint Debian (201012) Screen shot :

Linux Mint Debian (201012)

Editor's Quick Review : Its Damn fast on my old machine which doesn't support Compiz fusion. Its Linux so Virus free , detected all my hadware also my Samsung C 5130 3G phone. I am using my phone as my internet device and BSNL 3G is really fast. I am using this distro for one day and it did not crash for a single time.
I am using 64 bit edition , facing flash problem in Mozilla Firefox. I am tesing this distro and with in a week E will share my experience till then please wait.

"Whats new in this release :

All Mint 10 features
64-bit support
Performance boost (using cgroup, the notorious “4 lines of code better than 200″ in user-space)
Installer improvements (multiple HDDs, grub install on partitions, swap allocation, btrfs support)
Better fonts (Using Ubuntu’s libcairo, fontconfig and Ubuntu Font Family) and language support (ttf-wqy-microhei, ttf-sazanami-mincho, ttf-sazanami-gothic installed by default)
Better connectivity and hardware support (pppoe, pppoeconf, gnome-ppp, pppconfig, libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dev, mesa-utils installed by default)
Better sound support (addressing conflicts between Pulse Audio and Flash)
Updated software and packages

If you’re new to LMDE, welcome to Linux Mint Debian. Enjoy the release, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!"

Source : http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1604

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OPERA 11 Final - World's Fastest Browser

2010-12-22T09:00:00.000-08:00

Opera Software debuted the newest version of its award-winning browser , Opera 11 ,combines elegant design, smart updates to some of its most popular features and new ways to customize Opera to your preferences
.
According to Opera's Website it is World Fastest browser.
"The Carakan JavaScript engine has been further enhanced to run more quickly than ever! This makes Opera 11 the fastest browser on Earth in many performance tests. Even complex webpages load and run with lightning speed."

What’s new in OPERA 11 -

Tab stacking—Keep many webpages organized easily with Opera's tab-stacking capabilities.
A more secure address field—Hide the complexity of long web addresses and help you stay safe when browsing.
Extensions—Add new functionality from Opera's extensions catalog with a single click.
Visual mouse gestures—Learn how to perform many browser actions quickly, with only a mouse.
Search suggestions—Get Google search predictions in your address field and speed up searching.
Mail panel upgrade—Drag accounts and mail items where you want them.
Plug-ins only on demand—Have plug-ins ...............

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