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.
Download Opera 10.63
Today, Opera Software has released a new version of Opera browser that is 10.63.
In addition to user interface, scripting and miscellaneous bug fixes, this release also includes 5 security related patches. Therefore, it’s a recommended update for every Opera 10.6x user.
Changelog: 10.63
Download Link: Opera 10.63
All the Way to Internet Explorer 13
It seems like Microsoft decided to increase its domain names portfolio, as company has recently registered a bunch of new IE related domain names:
InternetExplorer12.com
InternetExplorer13.com
ie12beta.com
ie13beta.com
Unfortunately for Microsoft, they failed to register InternetExplorer8.com, InternetExplorer9.com and InternetExplorer10.com domains, as now they belong to someone else.
Considering that .com price is ~8-9 USD, why stop at number 13?
Weekly Questions Recap, October 11th
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Weekly Browsers Recap, October 11th
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• Internet Explorer Web Browser Jokes
Remember good old IE6 days? Well, let’s take a look at some of the IE definitions…
• Browser Comics
A pack of browser related comics.
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New Firefox Trojan Spotted
It looks like a new Firefox Trojan is in the wild and none of the antivirus programs can fix the issue.
According to webroot post, Trojan modifies nsLoginManagerPrompter.js file so Firefox would no longer ask, whether user would like to save entered password or not, and does that anyway.
After logins are stored, Trojan keeps sending stolen information to its author, Salar “Salixem” Zeynali in a rate of once per minute.
Yes, you read it right, Trojan author takes all the credit and can even be found on a Facebook site.
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Firefox 4 Mobile Beta for Android and Maemo
Today is a good day for Android users; as yet another browser competitor enters the ring.
This time it’s Firefox 4, built on the very same technology platform as desktop web browser; however, with optimizations for mobile phones in mind.
Maemo users have also received a Firefox 4 Beta build to play with.
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Firefox 4 Includes Bing Search
Recently, Mozilla has announced its plans to include Bing as additional search engine for Firefox 4 (US version) web browser.
“Bing itself offers a user experience that we think users will find valuable, and with its significant rise in popularity over the last year, we will also be including Bing as a general search option for English language users,” company officials said.
Just like in other search deals, Mozilla will share revenue from Bing searches as generated by Firefox users.
However, Google still remains the number one search engine and therefore, it’s set as default one
Internet Explorer Web Browser Jokes
Remember good old IE6 days? Well, let’s take a look at some of the IE definitions, as from UrbanDictionary.
What is Internet Explorer?
Internet Explorer
One of the most amazing tools for downloading Firefox.
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Opera Enters Advertising Market
Back in January of 2010, Opera Software has acquired a mobile advertising company “AdMarvel”.
Ever wondered what could possibly come out of this? Today, company has announced its plans to join mobile advertising market with its cloud-based, “Open Mobile Ad Exchange” platform.
By using JavaScript technology, company pushes advertiser ads directly into Opera Mini served web pages.
As Opera Software co-founder Jon von Tetzchner said, “there will be ads where you’re used to seeing ads,”.
Although there are almost 70 million Opera Mini users worldwide, it’s still unclear how exactly the company will attract potential advertisers and whether or not this product becomes a huge success.
