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.
Weekly Browsers Recap, September 26th
- Touch Input for IE10 and Metro style Apps
- Firefox Enterprise Support: Mozilla Changes Its Tune
- Firefox Memory Leaks Once Again Causing Frustrations
- Google Chrome should be the standard Browser on the Motorola lapdock
- Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta Release
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Opera: Speed Dial Laundry Day
- Best Android browser 2011: which should you use?
- Opera Mobile on Android x86 at IDF 2011
- Opera Mini 6.1 for Symbian gets an update
- Updated Opera Mobile 11.1 for Symbian released
- RockMelt: Does the world need another Web browser?
- Maxthon Mobile: The Right Browser for the Samsung Galaxy S II
- Dolphin Browser HD: The Best iPad Browser Not Named Safari
[Thanks, Mikah]
Opera: Increase Default Text Size (Web Page Zoom Level)
If you don’t feel like reading small font size words in various web pages and can’t really be bothered to zoom in all the time, we have a simple solution: set a default page zoom level. Here is how:
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Only In Opera…
Crashes while loading a crash page due to previous crash that was also caused by a yet another crash page. There is a “Yo dawg” joke floating around. Version: 11.51 “Stable”.
Experience 3D View: No Glasses Or New TV Required
Who needs 3D glasses or special TV’s anyway when all you have to do is open a picture via your web browser or any picture viewer.
Acid3 Test Updated
Makes life easier for the browser programmers.
Earlier this week, Ian Hickson, author of the Acid3 test has informed community about the update. According to the source, specific implementation checks of features have been disabled as they are likely to be heavily modified in the future or completely removed.
As a result, Firefox 6 and Internet Explorer 9 web browsers now achieves a perfect 100/100 score.
[Thanks, Blake, RamaSubbu SK]
Mozilla’s Co-founder Leaves The Company
Mike Shaver, the founding member of Mozilla in 1998, has decided to leave everyone’s beloved organization.
While it comes as a surprise, it’s nothing new to Mozilla. Earlier this year, Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox has departed from the company as well, followed by John Resig, a JavaScript evangelist, who left Mozilla just few months ago.
As far as the future holds, Mike has not yet though about that, as he wrote: “I haven’t yet decided what’s next, though I have some exciting opportunities to explore. I am still truly, madly, deeply in love with Mozilla and the web it is building, and grateful for the opportunities that it’s created for me,”
Opera Buys Handster
Today, Opera Software has announced the acquisition of Handster, an independent Android content library, which also offers developer tools, services to mobile operators as well as device manufacturers and other app stores.
According to the press release, Handster supports a variety of platforms, including: Google Android, Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, netbook, tablet applications and has customers from such device manufacturers as MTS, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei and LG.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 19th
- IE: Site Ready WebSockets
- How to suspend individual tabs in Chrome or Firefox
- Microsoft Windows 8 beats Google Chrome OS
- Google Chrome Surpasses 100,000 Revisions
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Opera Mobile: Android 11.1 update 2 ready for download
- Get Word Definitions Right in Safari with Tap Dictionary
- Dolphin Web Browser Improves the iPad Experience
