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.
Play NES Games from Web Browser
Let’s have some fun. Shall we? Our reader Nox has stumbled upon a JavaScript NES emulator JSNES which allows you to play most popular NES games straight from your web browser.
Although it works with every web browser, script author (Ben Firshman) recommends using Chrome, as it’s best suited for such tasks.
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Chrome Aims for 10% Market Share, Mac Release by the End of 2009
Just a year ago, Google had released the very first build of Chrome web browser which already has ~3.5% market share worldwide.
During the Chrome 3 stable release for PCs, Google Product Management VP Sundar Pichai has confirmed that the Mac version of Chrome should be ready by the end of this year.
Also, Google Chrome Engineering Director Linus Upson said:
“If at the two-year birthday we’re not at least 5 percent (market share), I will be exceptionally disappointed. And if at the three year birthday we’re not at 10 percent, I will be exceptionally disappointed,”
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Opera Mini 5 Beta Revealed and It’s Awesome
Today Opera Software has released the very first beta of world’s most popular mobile web browser, Opera Mini 5.
What’s so special about it? Just check the following new features: Continue Reading
Google Chrome 3 Released
Google today announced the availability of new stable Chrome release tagged as version 3.0.195.21.
Besides improved JavaScript performance, the following release also offers redesigned tab page, updated Omnibox, themes and partial HTML5 support.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 14th
- Install Internet Explorer on Linux with IEs4Linux
- Firefox adds Flash plug-in update protection
- Google Chrome Gets FTP, Extensions Tweaks
- 6 Unique Features That Make Opera 10 Stand Out
- Security Flaw Found in Safari for Windows
- WebKit adding support for GPU-accelerated 3D via WebGL
- 14 portable web browsers for Windows
- Maxthon 2.5.7 Released
- Mozilla’s Fennec Alpha 3 For Windows Mobile Is Out
Opera Mini 5 Beta Confirmed
Guys over “Choose Opera” group have confirmed that the recently appeared teaser page (opera.com/next) is actually for Opera Mini 5.
Although they have not revealed any release date, I would say it’s going to happen this week.
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Battery Life: Internet Explorer 8 vs. Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 2 vs. Opera 9 and 10 vs. Safari 4
Now here is something completely different. Guys at AnandTech has decided to find out, how web browser affects battery life.
They have tested the following web browsers:
Internet Explorer 8
Firefox 3.5.2
Firefox + AdBlock
Chrome 2
Opera 9.64
Opera 10 Beta 3
Safari 4 Continue Reading
Opera Mini 5 or Opera Mobile 10 Coming
Daniel Hendrycks has noticed an updated opera.com/next page which suggests that soon we will see the very first alpha/beta of Opera Mini 5 or possible Opera Mobile 10 sneak peak.
Google Chrome Extensions: Ready? Set. Go!
Good news, as of September 9th, all the upcoming Google Chrome dev builds will have extensions support enabled by default.
In previous releases, it was possible to use Chrome extensions, however, it required additional changes as it was disabled by default.
Although there aren’t lots of extensions yet, it should quickly change as Google prepares stable release with the following feature turned on.
Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 Released
Today Mozilla has released security and stability updates for Firefox 3.5 and 3.0 series.
The following updates fix a couple of critical security vulnerabilities and offer various stability improvements.
