Firefox 3 has been release and is available for download, bringing not only big performance enhancements, but also UI changes as better fullscreen and the Awesome bar, and internal changes as well(new bookmarks system, malware protection, and more).

Wine, the Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix, has finally reached version 1.0, after 15 years of development. It eases porting windows applications to unix platforms, or helps running windows applications unchanged on unix. A list of applications running on wine is available on Wine's AppDB.

YSlow is a Firefox 2.0 add-on (requiring Firebug) rating the performance of a webpage based on Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team's best practices. It's been developed by Yahoo and is available under the MPL with parts under the BSD license.