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.
Internet Explorer, No More “Click to Activate”
Internet Explorer news… I am sure you do know that annoying “Click to Activate” “feature”. Good news, Microsoft had finally licensed the technologies from Eolas, and that means… Yes, no more “Click to Activate”. However, you will have to wait a bit. The first preview release which is called “Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview” will be released in December. You can expect it in the next Windows Service Packs (Vista SP1 and XP SP3) pre-releases as well. Finally, it will be integrated directly into IE in April 2008.
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Opera Mini 4 Final Released
Seems that Opera Mini 4 Final was just released. Isn’t it too early to release the final version of it? You may check it yourself by downloading it. That’s what I am trying to do now (107 KB), it’s been the 5th time and I still do get “Error: Connection to server lost” while downloading.
Anyway, Opera Mini 4 introduces lots of new features (Opera Link, Mouse Cursor, Start Points and more) which give you everything or at least most of the things which you would like to have in the mobile web browser.
Opera Mini Features
Download Opera Mini 4
Opera Mini Live Demo
I’ve missed “Opera Mini vs. iPhone” video in the home page, where is it?
UPDATE: Peter Bortas from Opera contacted me regarding downloading issue, and told that they have fixed some problems and it should be working fine now.
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2007 October Browsers Market Share Results
New month and new market share results. You may check September results here.
Let’s begin with Internet Explorer. This month it slightly gained 0.01% of the market share and reached 77.87% from 77.86%.
Firefox lost some market share this month and felt from 14.88% to 14.85% (0.03% decrease).
Not so good month for Safari as well. As Firefox, it lost some market share too, from 5.07% to 5.05% (0.02% decrease).
During the previous 4 months, Opera was losing market share all the time. However, this time they have nicely increased it, from 0.87% to 0.99% (0.12% increase).
Netscape had a huge drop in October, its market share felt from 0.72% to 0.64% (0.08% decrease).
Opera Mini market share gets stronger with every month, this time it increased it from 0.39% to 0.41% (0.02% increase).
Here’s a graph of current browsers market share. Thanks to HitsLink.
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Flock 1.0 Released
So what is Flock is? Flock is a social web browser (that’s how Flock developers call it) which is based on Mozilla’s Firefox platform. I’ve just installed it and it looks fascinating. I even don’t use most of those integrated services (expect Youtube, Flickr and del.icio.us) but this interface is so well balanced and looks astonishing. Latest Flock release (1.0) includes all the security fixes from Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8. What else is new in Flock 1.0?
Click on the Picture to Enlarge.
Changelog:
However, there are still so many known issues which have to be fixed.
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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 11 05 Released
One more Firefox 3 Alpha nightly build for you from Firefox team. Firefox 3 Pre Milestone 9, 2007 11 05.
Fixed:
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:
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Opera 9.5, One More Beta
One more Opera 9.5 “Beta” (not Beta 2) release from Opera’s Desktop team. I suggest that you should use this build only for testing; it still contains lots of bugs and known issues as well.
Changelog
UNIX specific
Mac specific
Known Issues
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Build 9624)
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Classic Installer) (Build 9624)
Download Opera 9.5 for Macintosh (Build 4517)
Download Opera 9.5 for UNIX (Build 1652)
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Firefox 2.0.0.9 Released
Not so long time ago Firefox 2.0.0.8 was released with lots of fixes, however, after 2.0.0.8 there were few new issues which had to be fixed, and Firefox 2.0.0.9 did that. Here’s the changelog for it.
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Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3 Released
Both, Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.2 and after bit more than a day, 9.0.0.3 came out. Version 9.0.0.2 changes:
Issued fix to point Netscape search to updated search engine.
Removed “Report Bug” button
Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3 includes security fixes which were originally fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.9.
Download Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3.
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IE7 Pro 1.2 Released
IE7 Pro is a great add-on for IE7. And if you are using Internet Explorer 7, I have some news. IE7 Pro 1.2 was just released and here’s the changelog:
Ad Blocker:
Rules Counter added.
Table filter added.
Support for “Contains” match.
Table filter as a separate section in the Ad Blocker rules added.
Default Ad Blocker rules updated.
IE7Pro Menu and Preference Window:
Shortcut for “Clear Privacy” feature added.
Uninstall Plugins from the Preference Window now.
Check for updates Manually now.
Autoform ignore parameters now.
Support for “View Selected Source Code”.
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Opera Renews Its Deal With Google
Google is default search engine integrated to the Opera desktop browser and will stay there for at least 2 years (that’s then this deal expires) or more.
That means profit for both, Google and Opera.
Google pays ~80% (77% in Q3) of each click value to its publishers. Not really sure about Opera, but that should be more than 80% I guess.
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