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.
Octane JavaScript Benchmark Scores
As if there weren’t enough JavaScript benchmarks, the search giant has recently revealed a new one and it’s called “Octane”.
Why? According to Google, they wanted to create something that combines full, unaltered and well-known web applications and libraries.
Here are the initial results (higher is better):
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Internet Explorer 10: Enable The 64 Bit Browsing
Even though Windows 8 includes both IE10 x86 and x86-64 versions, the later one utilizes 32-bit tabs by default.
How so? Mostly due to compatibility issues with plug-ins. However, here is a quick and easy way to enable the real 64-bit experience.
Here is how, go to:
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Download Google Chrome 22 Beta
Good news for the Google Chrome and especially Windows 8 users as the latest beta version of the search giant’s web browser has some neat goodies in store.
According to the official blog post, Google Chrome 22 includes the Pointer Lock JavaScript API, which allows games and apps to hide the mouse cursor from the screen and read the mouse movement data. The result? You can now play first person shooters in your web browser.
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Opera Software Q2 2012 Financial Results
With the announcement of Opera’s and Google’s search partnership, Norwegian browser maker has also revealed its numbers for the second quarter of 2012.
So how do their finances look like?
Financial Highlights
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Opera Software Renews Its Search Contract With Google
After a couple of months of negotiations, it looks like both companies have finally agreed to the terms and have since signed the search partner agreement.
As a part of the contract, Google will be a default search provider for both Opera’s desktop and mobile web browsers.
Thankfully, the contract will expire in less than two years rather than months, on 01.08.2014.
Download Maxthon For Kindle Fire 2.6.x
Well, here is a nice gift for the Amazon’s Kindle users: a new release of the Maxthon web browser.
There is one issue though, we are not sure what the version number is or what are the changes.
On the app page it says v2.6.7, however, the changelog is completely different from the one posted on their official blog.
Anyway, you can grab it here at no cost.
Internet Explorer 9.0.9 Released
Recently, Microsoft has announced the availability of the Internet Explorer 9.0.9 web browser, which fixes 1 security vulnerability that could potentially allow remote code execution if user opens a specifically designed page.
IE 9.0.9 is available via Windows Update.
Pwnium 2: Google Will Pay Up To $2 Million Worth Of Rewards
Confirms their commitment on security.
Well, here is a potential chance for you to make millions of dollars, all you have to do is find dozens of exploits in the Google’s Chrome web browser and reap the rewards.
Pwnium 2, a hacking contest that will be held on October 10th, 2012 by the search giant itself, is promising to pay hackers:
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Firefox Metro Coming In September
The final version might miss the Windows 8 launch window.
Good news, following the recent RTM release of the Windows 8, Mozilla has announced that they too will be publishing the preview build of the Firefox Modern (formerly known as Metro) web browser sometime in September.
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Google Chrome Rewards Increased By $1,000
Or more…
Even though Google has already paid more than $1 million dollars for bug reports, the search giant has recently announced that they will be increasing the budget for its Chromium Vulnerability Rewards Program. According to the official blog post, bug hunters will now receive a bonus of $1,000 or more for every security flaw discovered.
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