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 Chrome Stop Motion Lego (Video)
Here is a fascinating Chrome Logo video by Renaud.
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Google Loves Speed, Improves Chrome Performance Again
With the latest Chrome Beta release, Google has announced some great improvements in both, usability and performance areas.
You can now rearrange web sites on New Tab page using drag and drop action, pin the ones you like or even hide specific site elements.
Omnibox was tweaked as well. Added icons should help users to distinguish between searches, bookmarks, suggested sites or the ones from history. Continue Reading
IE6 No More
Here comes another campaign to kill Internet Explorer 6 and urge its user to upgrade their browser.
As always, web masters are asked to add a special code into their site (which is ridiculous long) and hope for the best. Continue Reading
Coding a HTML 5 Layout from Scratch
With all the buzz building around the awesomeness of HTML 5, Smashing Magazine has published a great article called “Coding a HTML 5 Layout from Scratch“.
Worth checking if you are a web developer.
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5.2, Fixes Bugs
Mozilla has released updates for Firefox 3.5 and 3.0 web browsers. The latest 3.5 version fixes a total of 70 bugs and 6 security vulnerabilities, (4 of them are marked as critical).
July, 2009 – IE Continues to Fall, Chrome Surpasses Opera, Safari Market Share
New month and new market share data. Lets get it going.
Breaking through 60% barrier, Internet Explorer lost more market share, this time by 1.02 point, from 59.49% to 58.47%
Celebrating 1 billion downloads last week; Firefox increased its market share by 1.32, from 30.33% to 31.65%
Due to unknown reasons, Opera took a massive dive and fell by 0.66, from 3.36% to 2.7%
Just like Firefox, Chrome is also doing well. After increasing its market share by 0.41, from 2.82% to 3.23%, it has surpassed both, Opera and Safari web browsers market share.
Safari popularity is growing. This time its market share went up from 2.93% to 2.98% (0.09 point increase).
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Weekly Browsers Recap, August 3rd
- Mozilla Community Rubik’s Cube
- Tab thumbnails on the sides and Opera Unite improvements
- Safari plug-ins that improve your browsing
- Chrome Updates, Adds Themes, Better Windows 7 Support
- Mozilla Labs’ Weave 0.5 aligns Firefox planets
- Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
- Critical Update for Adobe Flash Player
- Net Applications tweaks its market share algorithm
- The HTML 5 Experiments (Video)
Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks, Nox and somebody for links.
Microsoft: No Browserless Windows 7 After All
cNET Writes:
It looks like there won’t be a browserless version of Windows 7, after all.
Microsoft said late Friday that it won’t ship the Windows 7 “E” version of Windows even though Europe has yet to sign off on its revised plan. The plan calls for the company to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer, but present a ballot screen in which users in Europe can decide whether they want Internet Explorer or another browser.
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Firefox Reaches 1 Billion Downloads
It’s official; combining all the Firefox downloads (not just 3.5), flaming fox was downloaded more than 1 billion times.
What’s the population of the world you ask? It’s 6,706,993,152 (July 2008 est.).
Warm congratulations to Mozilla and all Firefox users.
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