Coming up in this episode
* Extended service warranty for your Linux
* 10,000 Tabs Made Easy!
* A Chrome Firesale
The Video Version (https://youtu.be/pTGaEsSA12I)
https://youtu.be/pTGaEsSA12I
0:00 Cold Open
1:40 Extended Warranty for Ubuntu
17:36 Tab Groups and Unwanted Cookies
41:39 A Google Chrome Firesale!
58:33 The Science of Next Time
1:11:14 Stinger
Upgrade or ESM? Why not both?
This blog post (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-20-04-eol-for-devicesional) reminded Leo he needed to make a decision.
Ubuntu Pro (https://ubuntu.com/pro) could let him kick the can a little.
Upgrades generally go well (https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/software/upgrade-your-release/index.html) unless you have a bunch of 3rd party repos.
Always have a backup (https://rescuezilla.com) before any major changes.
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Browser Watch!
Firefox brings tab groups to the browser (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/)
How to get started with tab groups (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-tab-groups/)
Brave browser adds Cookiecrumbler (https://brave.com/privacy-updates/33-cookiecrumbler/)
Brave adds native translation (https://brave.com/blog/brave-translate-expansion/)
Chrome's Privacy Sandbox is dead (https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-next-steps/)
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Chrome breakup speculation
OpenAI has expressed an interest in taking over (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/openai_chrome_interest/)
Perplexity and Yahoo have too (https://9to5google.com/2025/04/25/google-chrome-openai-perplexity-yahoo-antitrust-case/)
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Quick look at our Snap and Flatpak journey
Inital systems have been setup.
Leo and Dan won't necessarily be installing the same software though some may overlap.
We will be keeping tabs on the sizes of just the containerized applications.
🔭Next Time🔭
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