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.
5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Internet Explorer
It’s time for some critics I guess. There are more than just a 5 reasons of course. But thought to start something like “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like…” topic. Who knows, maybe it can help web browsers developers (or maybe not).
1. It’s slow.
2. Lot’s of bugs (insecure).
3. Slow development.
4. Only basic features.
5. It doesn’t support web standards.
Tomorrow I will be posting “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Opera”, then “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Firefox” and so on.
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Waiting For The Opera Mini 4 Beta 2
I guess everyone is refreshing my.opera.com web page every few minutes…
And one more…
This is my favorite one.
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Waiting.
Sony In The Partnership With Opera Software
Or Opera Software in the partnership with Sony? Sony Electronics made a deal with Opera Software and chose to use Opera browser for their new BRAVIA Internet Video Link. With this BRAVIA Internet Video Link (currently available in the USA only) you can watch internet video from various providers and as Sony says itself: “It’s like extra channels for your new HDTV.”
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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (29 Aug 2007)
Are you ready for another Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 nightly build? This nightly build fixes 25 various bugs and is can be downloaded here. So enough chit-chat. Let’s see this build changelog now.
Fixed
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs
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Opera 9.5, Next Tuesday
Opera 9.5 codename Kestrel Alpha will be released very soon. Actually Opera Desktop Team set to release it next Tuesday. Patience is a virtue. Let’s wait. Opera 9.5 will be a present to Jon S. von Tetzchner (Opera’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO)), he is celebrating his 40 years old birthday today. We, FavBrowser.com community wish you all the best. Happy Birthday!
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Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 – Tomorrow
So here you go, Opera Mini team tomorrow will be releasing Opera Mini 4 Beta 2. Developers promised new features, and as they say, some of them were added by Opera Mini users requests while other ones are completely new. As you know they haven’t just used Opera Mini 3 core, they rewrote it (bugs, bugs, bugs), this Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 also should be much faster as well.
New features? RSS Feeds (not confirmed). I think this one will be added. Why it wasn’t added in the first Opera Mini 4 Beta then? It wasn’t finished.
Opera Mini team also wrote that more than a few Opera Mini 3 features like secure connections and content folding wasn’t added in the first Beta release, but *some* of those features will be in the Beta 2.
One more thing: This is not the last beta. We will have Opera Mini 4 Beta 3 as well. I respect this decision, we want to have stable and finished releases, even if that requires Beta 3 or even Beta 4.
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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (28 Aug 2007)
It’s been just a few hours since I’ve posted about “Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (27 Aug 2007)”. I have more good news about Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8. 28 Aug 2007 build was just released. This nightly build fixes even more bugs than the previous one. Here’s what has been fixed:
And just a reminder: This is NOT a final version. It contains bugs, use it on your own risk.
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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (27 Aug 2007)
Don’t you just love to install new web browsers builds? Yes, you do. Firefox team yesterday released their new Firefox 3 series build. It’s Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8, 20070828 (Trunk). So what does this new build brings? It’s alpha, so basically bug fixes, many of them were fixed. Here’s a full changelog:
Fixed:
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:
This is NOT a final build. Use it on your own risk.
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Web Browsers Finances – Opera Software 2007 Q2 Results
Good afternoon everyone. Few months ago I’ve started to monitor web browsers market share growth. Today I am thinking about something new again.
Oh yes, we all love graphs and various numbers (I love them). So since we are monitoring browsers market share already, what else can we monitor? Finances.
Opera Software today released their “Second Quarter 2007 Report” which includes some very interesting information. Here are some pictures (had to modify them a bit to make them fit in this blog).
As you can see Opera Software managed to increase almost everything (expect stock options costs), from revenues to employees.
Here are some more interesting information:
Soon to hit one billion per month. Congratulations to Opera Mini team.
Opera Software also provided their goals in 2007. Here are they:
Note: This does NOT constitute financial guidance.
Do you think they can complete all of them?
The only thing which made me wonder a bit was their “Working with global leaders” page.
Don’t you miss anything?
I went to their partners page and haven’t found “Yahoo!” there as well. Aren’t they in some kind of partnership? Have they just forgot to add this web giant?
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Opera 9.5 – More Details Revealed
There was some (one?) complain(s) in the “No Opera 9.5 or Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 or Final Today” post that Opera team haven’t posted anything in THEIR blog. So here you go, they did it on Saturday evening.
Whole post tells about Opera 9.5 developing, there are still many issues which needs to be fixed before releasing first public build and as Junyor (Tim Altman) said: “We have strict quality standards that have not yet been met”. That explains everything.
New Features
Opera always hides most important features which will be available in their next browser release, whether it’s Opera for desktop, Opera for mobile phone or any other one. I really like that. It makes you excite about something what you don’t know and when only a day or two are being left before release, they start to tease you even more. Thank you for that.
OK, new features/fixes. So not many was revealed, but here are the few:
An ability to manually update newsfeeds, just press F5 and you are done (I hope they will add some kind of button in the interface too).
Remember when you’ve clicked View > Encoding menu and it didn’t do anything for messages? Fixed.
That’s all. Let’s wait.
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