Firefox 7 Might Solve Memory Fragmentation Issues
According to the discussion participants at Bugzilla.Mozilla.org, Firefox 7 might include a patch to solve at least some of the memory bloat issues.
After the initial testing, it does look promising.
Here are the results:
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Import Facebook Friends To Google+
Even though the plus.google.com service is not yet publicly available and some people feel like the guy above, it does not stop developers from jumping into the Google+ boat early.
One of such people has already created a Google Chrome extension (Facebook Friend Exporter), which will export your Facebook contact data to Google Contacts or CSV.
What should be noted is this: according to the developer, as of the 5th of July, Facebook is working hard to prevent you from exporting your friends data and has already removed their emails from your profile.
However, the guy behind Facebook Friend Exporter is already working on a new version that is set to use the different approach to bypass Facebook trickery.
Bad Web Browser UI Design Choices
And how to fix them. Part 1.
Although the web browser user interface keeps evolving, it looks like from time to time some random programmer (who has no design experience) decides to implement a feature and mess things up. And you know what the worst part is? It looks “fine” to him/her and change is approved by management who has no design experience as well. Or at least it looks this way.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, July 4th
- A Browser for All Windows Customers: it’s about and, not or
- Internet Explorer 9 Font Update
- Mozilla Launches An Incubator Program For The Open Web
- Mozilla drafts Firefox vision statement
- Thunderbird joins Firefox with rapid release
- Pale Moon 5 Accelerates Firefox 5
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Chrome OS has security flaws, claims researcher
- Summer travel with a Chromebook
- India Ranks No.3 In Terms Of Opera’s Mobile Web Browser Usage
- 3 Unique Alternative Web Browsers for Your iOS Device
- Stream Torrents in Your Web Browser With Magic Player
[Thanks, Sebastian]
55% Of Firefox 4 Users Move To Firefox 5 In First Week
In the week after the arrival of Firefox 5, Firefox 4’s market share dropped by more than half, going from 16% to 7.2% according to analytics company StatCounter. During the same period, Firefox 5’s share of the market rose form 0.50% to 10%, signifying that the new version took on the decline of Firefox 4 and more.
By comparison, Chrome’s most recent upgrade made Firefox’s gains seem less dramatic. With the release of Chrome 12, Chrome 11’s share plummeted from 17% to 2.7% in the first seven days, a drop of approximately 84% in usage. Chrome 12’s market share, on the other hand, jolted up from 0.70% to 15.5% in the same time frame.
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IE10, 9 vs. Firefox 5 vs. Google Chrome 13, 12 vs. Opera 11.50 vs. Safari 5
With the release of the Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2, Microsoft has decided to post results of the JavaScript Standards Test, which scores are available below.
The following web browsers were tested:
Internet Explorer 10 (Platform Preview 2)
Internet Explorer 9
Firefox 5
Google Chrome 13 (13.0.782.41)
Google Chrome 12 (12.0.742.112)
Safari 5.0.5 (7533.21.1)
Opera 11.50
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Download Opera Mini 6.1 And Opera Mobile to 11.1
Good news for all handheld device users. Today, Opera Software has released a new version of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile web browsers.
So what’s new?
How about we let Opera talk for itself? Here is a feature list, straight from their announcement post.
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Download Internet Explorer 10 PP 2
Turns it up a notch.
Microsoft has recently released the second Platform Preview of the Internet Explorer 10, which now uses the same rendering engine as in the recent public demonstration of Windows 8.
Considering the elapsed timeframe, IE10 PP2 is a spectacular improvement over its predecessor. According to various reports, it has scored the following in the HTML5Test:
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Mobile Web Browsers Benchmark
In the age of HTML5 and GPU accelerated graphics, Microsoft has created a benchmark site aimed at the mobile web browsers.
Internet Explorer Test Drive Mobile offers a variety of tests, ranging from HTML5 and graphics demos to already popular, FishIE Tank, Speed Reading and similar benchmarks.
Up for some testing? Head over to the following page and try it out!
[Thanks, RamaSubbu SK]
