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 + Bonus Links, March 14th
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- 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.
How Would You Change Firefox?
The time has come yet again…
How would you change the Firefox web browser to make it better?
Download Safari 5.0.4
Yesterday, Apple has released a new build of its Safari web browser, bumping the version number to 5.0.4
Among various stability and compatibility improvements, Safari 5.0.4 for Windows also fixes HTML5 bug which might have prevented videos from playing on the YouTube web site.
Changelog:
Safari 5.0.4 for Mac
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IE9 Coming in March 14th
This is it, after lots of rumors and speculations, Microsoft has finally confirmed Internet Explorer 9 release date.
According to Ryan Gavin, senior director of IE, starting from next Monday, users will be able to download the Final version of Internet Explorer at 9 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time).
So here you have it, if Windows 8 is indeed stated for early 2012 release and company has changed its strategy, expect to see IE10 announcements later this year.
Forget Google Chrome! Hello, Baidu Web Browser
Microsoft has it, Google has it so why shouldn’t Baidu build one too?
To strengthen its business, Baidu, China’s most popular search engine is already working on its own web browser (codenamed FlyFlow) and as it turns out, testing phase has already begun.
Not much is known yet, although it was revealed that FlyFlow will have its own application platform and considering Baidu popularity, we might even see IE6 glory days over.
Rendering engine remains unknown as well. However, users should expect to see the public Beta of this web browser in the very near future.
Thanks, Andrew!
Source: QQ.com
URL Hunter
Your video card can’t handle video games on a big display? No worries! Here is a game where the URL bar is an actual screen.
Wait, what!
You are almighty letter O and have to kill as many a’s as possible. Use left and right arrow keys to control your character and space bar to kill.
Play.
64 Bit Google Chrome (x86-64)
It looks like the 64 bit version of Google Chrome web browser might be coming in the near future as AreWeFastYet.com now lists both OS versions:
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Convert Flash to HTML5
Adobe has released an experimental technology codenamed Wallaby which is designed to convert Flash (FLA) to HTML files.
Although not all features are yet supported, it’s a welcomed step forward.
Wallaby is free to use, so if you want to give it a try, here is a download link.
