JustBrowsing LiveCD Changelog

What's new in JustBrowsing LiveCD 20140808

Aug 10, 2014
  • Changelog:
  • Add: Xwrapper override for xorg-server 1.16+
  • Add: Samsung Unified Print Driver
  • Add: VDPAU video decoding driver
  • Add: dynamically update bookmark
  • Major overhaul: jb-config GUI
  • Settings: add Kiosk mode
  • Settings: choose email provider for compose shortcut
  • Settings: save/load installed printers
  • Settings: save/load Wifi networks
  • Settings: adjust mouse acceleration
  • Settings: toggle touchpad tapping
  • Settings: adjust screen backlight/dimming
  • Settings: adjust screen timeout delay
  • Settings: adjust/boot audio volume
  • Settings: add save confirmation and log files
  • Settings: add display auto/reset option
  • Settings: rewrote tree row selection and revert mechanisms
  • Syslinux: loglevel=0 to boot entries to suppress output
  • Syslinux: add missing Arabic menu entry
  • Syslinux: splash replaced, text color inverted
  • Packaged: Chrome and Firefox profiles
  • Packaged: home directory config files
  • Packaged: Xorg configs and Polkit rules
  • Shrink binaries: libxul.so, chrome, GoogleTalkPlugin
  • Hold: NetworkManager 0.9.8.10 (password input dialog broken upstream for GTK2)
  • Hold: archiso 15 (ISO structure altered)
  • Status:
  • Updated to Firefox 31.0 (stable)
  • Updated to Google Chrome 36.0.1985.125 (stable)
  • Updated to Linux kernel 3.15.8
  • 32-bit release
  • 64-bit release
  • OnlyFirefox release
  • OnlyChrome release
  • Torrent releases
  • ISO size: 659 MB
  • Known bugs:
  • Printer refresh does not auto-select driver
  • Sometimes volume and mouse acceleration not restored on boot
  • zRAM support installed but not enabled
  • VPN support not tested
  • Non-whitelisted keymaps not functional in Chrome 35+
  • Broadcom BCM4311 wifi broken in kernel 3.15 (fixed in 3.16rc3)
  • Bug reporting partially implemented

New in JustBrowsing LiveCD 20140708 (Jul 9, 2014)

  • Added: chrome-remote-desktop (server)
  • Added: Hipmunk bookmark
  • Chrome: added extension formerly named QuickOffice
  • Fixed: missing Downloads folder
  • Packaged: jb-config
  • Packaged: custom systemd unit files
  • Updated: i3lock-spy
  • Updated: justbrowsing-adeskbar
  • ISO: squashfs now uses XZ compression

New in JustBrowsing LiveCD 20140704 (Jul 5, 2014)

  • Settings: boot parameter parser updated
  • Settings: url parameters added
  • Settings: backend added loading config
  • Settings: backend added saving config
  • Settings: GUI added changing default browser
  • Settings: GUI added changing locale
  • Settings: GUI added changing keymap
  • Settings: GUI added toggling force clean profiles
  • Settings: GUI added setting custom homepage
  • Settings: uploaded to git repo
  • Rewrote: syslinux locale and keymap menu
  • Rewrote: syslinux virtual machine menus
  • Rewrote: browser toggle to use x-www-browser
  • Rewrote: panel dynamic resizing
  • Updated: i3lock-spy (zoom fit patches)
  • Updated: i3lock-sentry (CSS and placeholders)
  • Replaced: gxkb with jbxkb (custom) keyboard layout tray applet
  • Compressed: chrome, libxul.so (firefox), GoogleTalkPlugin binaries with upx
  • Added: batterymon-clone laptop battery tray applet
  • Added: ibus-lite, ibus-pinyin (Chinese), ibus-skk (Japanese), ibus-m17n (various)
  • Added: ttf-bitstream-vera, ttf-droid, ttf-indic-otf, ttf-tibetan-machine
  • Added: Intel i740 and i810 GPU firmware
  • Added: Broadcom b43-firmware
  • Added: Chinese (pinyin), Chinese (cangjie), Japanese (skk), Korean (romaja), Thai
  • (kesmanne) ibus inputs
  • Added: Hebrew and Vietnamese (tcvn) keymaps and locales
  • Added .torrent download option
  • Status:
  • Updated browsers to Firefox 30.0 (stable) and Google Chrome 35.0.1916.153 (stable)
  • Updated to Linux kernel 3.15.3
  • ISO size: 673 MB
  • Known Bugs:
  • Non-whitelisted keymaps not functional in Chrome 35+
  • Broadcom BCM4311 wifi broken in kernel 3.15 (fixed in 3.16rc3)
  • Networks save/load not implemented
  • Printer save/load not implemented
  • Bug reporting partially implemented

New in JustBrowsing LiveCD 20140409 Nightly (Apr 10, 2014)

  • Up-to-date
  • Experimental GUI settings tool
  • Experimental printer support

New in JustBrowsing LiveCD 20131225 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • Added internationalization support: 30 keymaps and locales.
  • Boot parameter keymap=xx
  • Boot parameter locale=xx
  • Boot parameter clean=true
  • Syslinux load keymap menus
  • Syslinux video mode menus
  • Syslinux help menus
  • Set gxkb keymap option
  • Set browser locale option
  • Fresh/untouched browser profile option
  • Browser wrapper scripts

New in JustBrowsing LiveCD 20131218 (Dec 19, 2013)

  • Updated to Firefox 26.0 (stable)
  • Update to Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63 (beta)
  • Updated to Linux kernel 3.12.5
  • Upgraded [email protected]
  • GTK icon theme enabled
  • Updated Firefox profile
  • Update Chrome profile
  • Fixes for Chrome slotting (symlinks)
  • Chrome: installed camera app
  • Firefox: tweaks to about:config
  • Firefox: MoreInContent+ extension
  • Removed python3
  • Optimize ISO size each build
  • Default volume 100% for all audio cards
  • Change i3 default tiling to tabbed
  • VirtualBox support
  • VirtualBox RDP fixes
  • Keyboard layout/keymap applet switcher (gxkb: us,fr,it,is)
  • Fixes to autosize script
  • PXE support

New in JustBrowsing LiveCD 20130718 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • New: added searchpreview to Firefox
  • New: added flashfree, searchpreview and smart qrcode to Chrome
  • New: re-enabled Chrome plugins, added flashfree whitelist
  • New: upgrade-iso script to build nightlies
  • Removed: google-talkplugin (hangouts)
  • Updated: Firefox 22.0
  • Updated: Google Chrome 30.0.1566.2 dev
  • Updated: Linux kernel 3.9.9