Archive for March, 2011
IE9: 2.3 Million Downloads in 24 Hours
Internet Explorer 9 has been just recently released and the first numbers are in.
According to IE Blog, the latest version of Microsoft’s web browser has been downloaded more than 2.3 million times in the first 24 hours! That’s 27 downloads every second.
Numbers are huge when compared to IE9 Beta (1 million) or IE9 RC (500,000) downloads in the same time period.
Congratulations.
Thanks, RamaSubbu SK.
Download Opera 11.10 Beta
After quite a few snapshot builds, here comes the first beta of Opera 11.10 web browser.
What’s New?
Opera 11.10 Beta introduces an improved version of Speed Dial which now allows you to have an unlimited number of sites. Furthermore, a new algorithm zooms into the logo instead of displaying the whole web site.
As for other changes, Opera 11.10 will now download a Flash plug-in in the background automatically (in case site requires one), includes CSS3 multi-column layouts and gradients support, Web Open Font Format and WebP image protocol.
Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) in Windows 8
According to Win7China, Internet Explorer 10 will be the default browser of Windows 8 and not IE9 as some might have expected.
But these are more than just rumors, according to internal Windows 8 testers, Milestone 3 builds already have early versions of IE10 pre-installed.
Via: Winddows8Geek
Weekly Questions Recap, March 15th
Don’t forget that you can receive points for asking/answering questions and redeem them for cool prizes.
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Download Internet Explorer 9 Final
This is it! The latest version of the Internet Explorer has been released and can be downloaded here.
Just like IE8, it comes in both, 32 and 64 bit flavors and is available for Windows users only.
What’s New
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Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, March 14th
FavBrowser.com
- IE8 and Safari Fall on First Day of Pwn2own
- IE9 Coming in March 14th
- IE6 Challenge (Picture)
- How Would You Change Firefox?
- Users Advised to Update Graphics Drivers for Firefox 4
- Firefox 4 Release Candidate Now Available
- Google Chrome 10 Arrives
- 64 Bit Google Chrome (x86-64)
- Forget Google Chrome! Hello, Baidu Web Browser
- Download Safari 5.0.4
- Nintendo Ditches Opera
- RockMelt Now Available To Everybody
- URL Hunter
- Convert Flash to HTML5
A Year of Internet Explorer 9 Video
With the launch of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has also put a nice video which looks back at the browser development process and initial impressions from the press.
IE8 and Safari Fall on First Day of Pwn2own
Pwn2Own, the yearly hacking contest held as part of the CanSecWest security conference, saw the successful hijacking of fully patched versions of Safari and Internet Explorer 8 this year. Ars Technica described Pwn2Own as the following:
If a researcher can pwn the browser—that is, make it run arbitrary code—then they get to own the hardware the browser runs on. This year, not only did they have to run arbitrary code, they also had to escape any sandboxes—restricted environments with reduced access to data and the operating system—that are imposed.
How Would You Change Firefox?
The time has come yet again…
How would you change the Firefox web browser to make it better?
