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.
Microsoft Releases H.264 plug-in for Chrome
Back in January, Google has announced its plans to remove H.264 codec from the Chrome web browser.
Well, Microsoft has decided to spice some things up and announced the availability of “Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome” (Windows 7 only).
In addition, Dean Hachamovitch the Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer has posted a a lengthy, explaining the current industry situation and expressing his concerns about WebM (just like Google did with H.264).
To sum it up: Microsoft is fully behind H.264 and sees no reason to drop it.
IE9: 23 Million Downloads and Counting
With the approaching Internet Explorer 9 RC1 release date, IE team has recently revealed that Microsoft’s browser has been already downloaded more than 23 million times.
Furthermore, it looks like with a total 1.82% of Windows 7 users already using IE9, it has now reached 0.5% of the worldwide market share.
Internet Explorer 9 RC Launching Soon
Good news, Microsoft has just sent out invitations to media press, inviting them to join an Internet Explorer 9 event on February 10th.
Members from the Internet Explorer team (and some special guests) will be visiting San Francisco in two weeks to share some important news. I know it’s an extremely busy news week already, but we’re hoping you can join us.
Just a few more weeks to go.
Download Firefox 4 Beta 10
Just few weeks after the Beta 9 release, here comes the next-to-last Beta build of Firefox web browser.
What’s changed? Improvements in memory usage, various stability enhancements and over 500 bug fixes.
However, with release cycle pickup up speed, you should expect Beta 11 at the end of January (31st) or very early February.
Thanks, Jeff.
Download Opera 11.01
After 2 RC builds, Norwegian browser maker has recently released the final build of Opera 11.01.
The following update includes a handful of bug fixes, various improvements in core and mail sectors as well as 6 security related patches.
IE9 RC User Interface Changes
It looks like the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 RC build will feature some user interface changes.
Russian website has had their hands on the build numbered 9.00.8073.6010 (WIN7_IE9_Partner.110113-2300) and made a comparison against IE9 Beta.
Result?
Sharper edges, some color changes and various tweaks.
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Firefox 5 is Months Away
If you’ve been expecting Firefox 5 sometime next year then we have some good news for you.
According to Brendan Eich, the CTO of Mozilla, company is ready to speed up their release cycle and introduce Firefox 5 at the some point of this year.
Cast a colder eye on your blockers. Some of them can wait for a dot release or Firefox 5 that I do believe will be only months after 4 comes out. We are going to a fast release cycle. It serves our users better. To do that we have to get this touch and go done with Firefox 4.
If everything goes as planned, we should see the Final build of Firefox 4 sometime next monmth.
Optimized Firefox for Linux
After Optimized Firefox for Windows post, here is something for Linux users to play with.
According to the website, Swiftfox is an optimized Firefox version for Linux that it is using the “most cutting edge” Firefox source code and is available for both, AMD and Intel processors.
Unlike “The Pale Moon Project”, it has little to none information about the exact optimizations and/or performance improvements.
However, if you are still interested in, give it a try.
Be Right Back
Hi everyone,
Just a minor announcement: I’ll be flying to London later today and therefore, won’t be able to post any news for a few days to come.
Should be back on Monday (24th), so not a major inconvenience after all :-)
See you soon.
