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 Releases Chrome 5 Stable
Few days ago, Google has released the final version of Google Chrome 5 web browser, tagged as version 5.0.375.55, for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
Besides more than just a few security patches (6), they managed to fix a handful of stability issues as well.
Chrome 5 brings browser preferences and bookmarks sync, HTML5 features, updated bookmark manager and more.
Thanks to Blake and Rafael Luik for the news tip.
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Synchronize Between Firefox and iPhone with Firefox Home
Mozilla has recently announced an upcoming project that is “Firefox Home”.
What is it?
Firefox Home is a simple iPhone application (based on Weave Sync), that allows iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad users to access their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and tabs from their most recent browsing session.
Furthermore, it allows you to use Awesome Bar without Firefox browser itself. Continue Reading
uZard – Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Web Browser with Flash & Silverlight Support
uZard Web P is yet another web browser for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry platforms. Just like its competitors, this browser has its strengths and weaknesses.
uZard uses approach similar to Opera Mini, which is beneficial in many ways: lower memory footprint, easy updating and more (does not mention compression).
It does indeed support Flash and Silverlight (also other audio/video formats), however, when it comes to actual browsing, you might want to look somewhere else.
What about browsing? Continue Reading
Poll: Weekly Browsers Recap
I’d like to hear your opinions about weekly browsers recap. Here’s what I think: instead of linking to all the news articles, I would cover them in this blog.
Pros: wouldn’t have to wait whole week to read about something, what had happened 5 days ago or so.
Cons: ?
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In case you were wondering about the decreased amount of news, etc…
Basically, I was balancing between studying/trading Forex and my studies at the University. As you have noticed, this lead into the “late/no news” situation.
Anyhow, it’s time to move on. Therefore, I have decided to quit studies (at the University) and focus on things I enjoy doing. As George Shinn said: “Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.”
P.S. I will continue studying English to improve my writing :-)
So, give me a day or two to sort everything out and we are ready to go.
Firefox 4 to Have Updated Web Inspector
Back in early days, Firefox used to have a simple DOM Inspector, which was later removed in Firefox 3 and made available as add-on.
Well, for the upcoming Firefox 4 release, Mozilla is planning to bring such tool back and make it a part of web browser again.
While Web Inspector is not intended to replace Firebug, it can be used for basic tasks, such as: elements identification or site structure overview.
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Internet Explorer 9 to Support VP8
Earlier today, Google has announced a developer preview of WebM, which is essentially an open source media format, designed for World Wide Web, that uses VP8 codec.
In response to such announcement, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer General Manager, Dean Hachamovitch said: “In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows” … “We want to be clear about our intent to support the same markup in the open and interoperable web, and to do so in a manner consistent with our view broad view of safety and security”
The WebM is already supported by 40+ companies, such as: Mozilla, Opera, Google, Logitech and many more.
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Chrome to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu?
If UberGizmo rumor is true, Canonical, a company behind Ubuntu is planning to ditch Firefox web browser in favor of Google Chrome (or Chromium).
In fact, Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 should be the very first version to do that.
How this version differs from the desktop release? It has a new interface, designed for restricted size machines that features a single menu bar design (more about it here).
It’s still unclear, whether same changes are planned for desktop version or not.
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Acer Bursts Chrome OS Device Bubble
Last week, rumors were floating around about the upcoming Acer announcement at Computex regarding Chrome OS device.
Unfortunately, company has issued a press release stating that company has no “short-term plans for such a product”.
However, such device is still plausible in the future, as Acer said: “Acer believes that Google Chrome OS is without doubt an exciting product announcement and deserves it’s full attention as well as an in-depth study of its potential from a consumers perspective.”
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Weekly Browsers Recap, May 17th
- Internet Explorer History Monitor
- Install Firefox add-on without restarting, now in nightly builds
- Mozilla Plugin Check for All Browsers
- The Book of Mozilla
- Use Google Chrome to Drag Images into e-mails
- Verizon’s Tablet Bet Is on Google Chrome
- Why the Opera web browser is anti-Flash
- Opera’s Secrets Unlocked: 16 Tips and Tricks
- Apple Safari Browser Hit By Zero-day Vulnerability
- iPad JavaScript Shockingly Slow?
- Is Your Browser HTML5 and CSS3 Ready?
- Android Browser Roundup
Thanks to Android, Ichann, Nox and Tiago Sá for links.
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