Author Archive: Vygantas
Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.
Google’s Chrome Market Share Declines For The First Time, Firefox’s Drops Below 20%
New Year brings big changes.
It’s February already as we look at the January’s browsers marker share numbers. As it turns out, there were few substantial differences for major vendors.
For the first time since eternity, Internet Explorer has actually increased its share from 47.76% to 48.16% (0.4 point jump). Is IE cool again?
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Skyfire Receives Additional $8 Million In Funding
As if $23 million were not enough, Skyfire, a company behind mobile web browser for Android and iOS, has raised another $8 million in funding.
Although users can download Skyfire for free, which they did more than 12 million times, a video optimization feature dubbed as “Skyfire Video License” will cost you $2.99.
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Download Firefox 10 Final
In a typical Mozilla fashion, 6 weeks after the Firefox 9 release, the open source organization has now released the final version of Firefox 10.
While the following build has not yet been officially announced, you can already download it from the official mozilla.org servers.
So what’s new? Not much, really.
As reported earlier, Firefox 10 will now hide the forward button in case it’s grayed out. Excluding few fixes and web standards improvements, release notes look pretty bleak.
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FavBrowser.com Give Away Winners
Greetings,
The giveaway contest is over and there is no time to waste!
Please see the winners list below and follow instructions, in case you won. Congratulations and thanks for trying!
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YouTube Crashing In Chrome? Here’s How To Fix That
Over the course of last few last days, a huge amount of Google Chrome users have started experiencing crashes when surfing YouTutbe web site. While the search giant is presumably working on a way to fix that, here is what you can do to stop crashes from happening again:
– Right click on the video
– Click “Stop Downloading” before you close the tab
– Job done
[Via reddit]
Over 1000 Opera Extensions
Slightly more than a year after announcing extensions, Opera’s add-ons directory has just surpassed the 1000 mark and is slowly edging towards the next milestone.
In addition to such announcement, Aleksander Aas, community manager at Opera Software, has unveiled that the new Opera’s API’s and features (as you might expect) are in development as well.
Unfortunately, no further details were revealed
Visit Opera Extensions home page.
US Schools To Receive 27 000 Chromebooks
During the FETC (Florida Educational Technology Conference) keynote, Rajen Sheth, Google’s Group Product Manager for Chromebooks, has announced a new deal, which would bring nearly 27 000 Chromebooks to the US schools.
Where are they headed?
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Firefox To Ditch C++ In Favor Of Rust
If everything goes according to the plan, Rust, Mozilla’s experimental programming language that has been in development since 2006, could slowly replace C++, which is currently used by the open source organization.
Just like Google’s Go programming language, Rust syntax is similar to that of C and C++ and destined to provide memory safety, greater security and good concurrency support.
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FavBrowser.com Give Away
Greetings,
After our previous give away, we still have few freebies left before our inventory is empty, so in case you feel lucky today, simply retweet this post and enter the contest!
12-14 lucky winners will receive one of the following:
T-Shirt (Black or Red)
Opera Software Pen
Opera Sticky Notes
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Download Opera 11.61
While we wait for the Beta release of Opera 12, here is something to cheer you up: an update for the 11.6x branch.
As with every minor browser release, Opera 11.61 includes a variety of stability, security and usability fixes, that are always welcomed.
Although it’s been officially announced, it looks like there are some issues with at least one of the mirrors, which does not yet have the latest version uploaded.
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