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 Rolls Out New Chrome 5 Beta
Recently Google has released a Beta version of Chrome 5 web browser. Now, not only it includes browser preferences synchronization (in addition bookmarks sync), but also offers HTML5 goodies like: Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop support. Continue Reading
Firefox Crashing in Ubuntu?
Giorgio, the author of popular NoScript add-on for Firefox has warned its users that extension usage in Ubuntu 10.04 may cause crashes.
Although recently discovered bug should be fixed in the next Ubuntu update, developer suggests running the following command in your terminal for an immediate solution:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bryceharrington/purple && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
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Weekly Browsers Recap, May 3rd
- Microsoft: HTML5 is the future of the web, will only support H.264
- Microsoft fires back at critics of its HTML5 strategy
- Firefox.next tab bar becomes customizable
- Detention Awarded for Using Foxfire.exe?
- Firefox for Android Pre-Alpha Released
- Hands-on: Mozilla’s foxy Fennec prerelease build for Android
- Mozilla Previews New Firefox Add-Ons Manager
- Google patches Chrome for second time this month
- Disable Google Chrome’s Location-Aware Browsing
- Features that Google Chrome offers that other browsers do not have
- Opera 10.53 released
- Design a new blog header for Choose Opera
- BlackBerry 6.0 Coming Soon With New Browser, Better UI
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April, 2010 – Internet Explorer Market Share Goes Below 60%
It’s time to find out, how ballot screen affected web browsers growth and/or decline. Lets begin.
After continuous Internet Explorer downtrend, Microsoft web browser has finally felt below 60% market share mark, from 60.65% to 59.95% (0.7 point decrease).
Firefox is slowly trying to reach 25% market share mark, this time its share increased by 0.07 point, from 24.52% to 24.59%. Continue Reading
Opera Buys FastMail
Today, Opera Software has announced the acquisition of Aussie email provider FastMail.FM for an undisclosed amount of money.
According to company press release statement, this move will help Opera to expand its current messaging product portfolio and deliver cross-platform messaging to a wide range of devices, including computers, mobile phones, TVs and gaming consoles.
“The newest generation of Web users will discover the Web through a mobile device. Having world-class messaging capability alongside a rich and compelling Web experience is essential. By combining forces, Opera and FastMail.fm can offer messaging on any device. This will enhance the value Opera provides to consumers, while assisting our operator partners in reducing customer churn,” said Rolf Assev, Chief Strategy Officer at Opera Software.
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Opera 10.52 for Windows and Mac Released
Today Opera Software has released an update for Opera 10.5x series web browser for both, Windows and Mac operating systems.
Bug fixes since 10.51
Fixed a crash on closing tab with PDF plugin
Fixed issues with pages never stop loading
Fixed issues with caching
Fixed an issue with opening email attachments
… and more
According to 10.5x roadmap, Linux version should be released by the end of May.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, April 26th
- Microsoft to fix further vulnerabilities in IE 8 XSS filter
- IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab
- Firefox Customizable Tab Bar
- Screenshots of new UI concepts for Firefox 4
- refox 3.6.4 beta available for download and testing
- Google closes vulnerabilities in Chrome 4 for Windows
- Wikipedia Companion Adds Wikipedia Browser To Google Chrome
- Chrome OS to support ARM and Tegra?
- Opera shown to be the most secure browser by Symantec
- Make Opera Mini 5 the default Android browser with Opera Bridge
- Another EU browser ballot bug: now it’s not random at all
- Holistic Web Browsing: Trends Of The Future
- Video: Skyfire Alpha on Android
- Microsoft sponsors new Web font standard
- NetSurf 2.5 released
Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks, Ichann, mabdul, Nox and Oliver for links.
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Increase Your Productivity with Firefox or Chrome
Here is a different approach on boosting your productivity. RescueTime is a simple Firefox and Google Chrome add-on, which tracks your actions and gives you an insight, on how much time you actually waste during your “working hours”
Here is a scoop from developer’s web site: Continue Reading
