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.
Hulu Now Works on Skyfire Browser
Although there is no announcement yet, it appears that Skyfire US users can now access Hulu content, which was previously blocked for an unknown reason.
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SunSpider 0.9.1 Released
Today WebKit team has released an updated version of world’s most popular JavaScript benchmark. The key point of this release is more accurate results, which is achieved through bug fixes and few improvements.
You can try SunSpider 0.9.1 in the following page and compare it to 0.9 results here.
Notice any difference?
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Opera Not Happy with Ballot Screen
Opera Software has reported a possible problem to European Union and Microsoft, where in rare cases; ballot screen would be hidden by Internet Explorer configuration windows.
Internet Explorer 9 Demo on nVidia Ion Netbook
“Here, Chris Pederson shows what the IE9 experience will look like with GPU-accelerated HTML5, JavaScript, and Direct 2D technology.”
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Opera Mini Makes Big Money
In the recent report, released by Opera Software, company claims that mobile browser Opera Mini generates about $1.2 billion/year in revenue for operators worldwide, thanks to its data compression technology.
“In February 2010, people browsing with Opera Mini (in the top 10 countries according to unique users) spent approximately 103.8 million dollars. That figure translates to approximately 1.2 billion dollars per year.”
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Google Bundles Flash to Chrome
After some rumors floating around, it’s now official. Google has announced its partnership with Adobe and its plans to integrate Flash player into Chrome browser. In fact, latest dev build already offers that.
Adobe, Google and Mozilla are also working closely together on the next generation browser plug-in API, which is set to address “the shortcomings of the current browser plug-in model”. Continue Reading
SRWare Iron Web Browser
What happens when you remove all the user tracking and background services from Google Chrome? You get SRWare Iron, a Chromium source based web browser that is concerned to protect your privacy. Furthermore, it includes an integrated ad-blocker and “easy to change” User Agent.
What’s the difference between Google Chrome and SRWare Iron? Continue Reading
Weekly Browsers Recap, March 29th
- Introducing IE9’s User Agent String
- Browser ballot already hurting Internet Explorer market share
- Firefox gets a boost from browser choice in Europe
- Memory Fox
- Visualizing Usage of the Firefox Menu Bar
- Contacts in the Browser
- Firefox mobile beta for Android coming in 2010
- Google Chrome to do away with unique IDs
- Google Chrome 5 Beta
- Introducing the ANGLE Project
- Opera Mini for iPhone speed test
- Microsoft to extend Silverlight for Mac?
- Camino and the 2010 Google Summer of Code
- Maxthon Extends Isolator Protection to Page Crashes
Thanks to Ichan, mabdul and Nox for links.
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Pwn2Own: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox and Safari Hacked
As first day at Pwn2Own hacking contest nears its end, web browser results are in.
Just like last year, Apple’s Safari 4 on Snow Leopard 10.6 was hacked first, as Charlie Miller set up a remove exploit.
Interment Explorer 8 has fallen next, after a successful Peter Vreugdenhil four layer attack on Windows 7. Continue Reading
Firefox 3.6.2 Released
To address recently discovered security vulnerabilities, Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.2 (ahead the schedule). Not only this release fixes mentioned flaws, but also includes more than 100 bug fixes and other improvements.
As always, you can download it via automatic updates or GetFirefox.com.
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