Web Browser News and Reviews

Opera for Tablets

By Vygantas | January 3, 2011 | 12 Comments

Good news, Norwegian browser maker has just announced its plans to unveil the very first public preview of Opera for tablets at the CES 2011 (January 6-9).

Dec, 2010 – Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer – Down

By Vygantas | January 3, 2011 | 8 Comments

All right, it’s time to check the browsers market share stats for the last month of 2011 that is December.

Internet Explorer continues to fall and is now approaching 50% level, dropping from 58.44% to 57.08% (1.36 point decrease).

Firefox the first time in 3 months, Firefox has increased its market share by 0.05 point, from 22.76% to 22.81%.
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By Vygantas | December 31, 2010 | 7 Comments

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SurfCube: 3D Browser on Your Windows Phone 7

By Vygantas | December 30, 2010 | 3 Comments

Makes 2D UI look obsolete.

Here comes another IE Mobile based web browser for Windows Phone 7 platform.

However, this time it’s all about 3D. By using “cube design”, it allows users to switch between different sides of it and navigate in such fashion.

Furthermore, it supports landscape mode, orientation lock, private browsing mode, accelerometer and even got bandwidth saved.

Interested in? It can be yours for $1.99 and downloaded from Windows Marketplace.

Skip Hotfile.com and Depostifiles.com Wait Time and Download Limit, Download Instantly

By Vygantas | December 29, 2010 | 1 Comment

Skip Hotfile.com and Depostifiles.com Wait Time, Download Instantly Awesome extension is awesome.

In case you’ve been downloading files from sites like Megaupload.com, Hotfile.com, Depositfiles.com, 4Shared.com, Mediafire.com, Rapidshare.com, etc., here is a fun little extension for you, Firefox and Opera users.

What does it do? It will either, start downloading file automatically or skip the wait time.
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Mozilla Leaks 44,000 User Passwords

By Vygantas | December 29, 2010 | 3 Comments

Mozilla Leaks 44,000 User Passwords Oops

It looks like the database of 44,000 inactive addons.mozilla.org accounts has been mistakenly left on a public Mozilla server.

According to the official blog post, it affects accounts created prior to April 9th, 2009 that use older, md5-based password hashes. As of today, all the data is secured with SHA-512 password hash.

Impacted users were notified on December 27th and potential treat has been already removed.

WebGL: Flight of the Navigator

By Vygantas | December 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

Here is an interesting take on WebGL + Audio API that was developed by Mozilla volunteers.

The whole demo world has been completed by using canvas element with a WebGL context while models, animations and 3D structures were created with Lightwave.