Firefox 4 and Opera Dropping Websockets
From useful to dangerous.
It looks like Websockets aren’t so great after all (at least in the short term). According to Mozilla and Opera posts, both companies will be disabling support for such technology until serious security flaws are fixed.
Mozilla said that Firefox 4 Beta 8 will be the very first release to do so, while Opera has not yet commented on version specifics.
Recently, Adam Barth has shared a security study findings that raised a red flag for the current state of Websockets protocol.
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Today I Actually Used Chrome’s Incognito Browsing…
First, US announces world press freedom day and now this:
Must be one of those “weird” days…
Via: Reddit
Google Chrome 10 Introduces Crankshaft
The race is on.
Google Chrome fans will scream out of the excitement, as Google has recently released the very first build of Google Chrome 10 with Crankshaft.
What is that?
It is a new compilation infrastructure for Google’s V8 JavaScript engine.
Vygantas, it’s confusing and such, just give us benchmarks already.
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Download Google Chrome 8 Stable
How could we miss that…
Recently, Google has moved Google Chrome 8 into a stable release list and announced the availability of version 8.0.552.215.
What was changed?
According to the company, this release fixes more than 800 bugs (13 are security related), includes a sandboxed PDF viewer, support for the forthcoming Chrome Web Apps store and experimental Flags menu feature.
What does it do?
Allows you to tweak a setting or two (check the screenshot above).
Your Browsing Habits Revealed
Exposes all sorts of weird data.
Mozilla team has conducted a survey that aims to learn more about the user browsing habits.
About the survey
Test duration: 7 days
Test type: Global
Versions covered: Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6, Firefox 4 Beta
Data submission: 527,817 test sets submitted in November 2010.
Results
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Silverlight 5 Beta (64 bit) in H1 2011
Brings more goodies to the table.
Earlier this month, Microsoft has revealed the very first information about the upcoming Silverlight 5 release.
According to “The Future of Microsoft Silverlight” web site, Silverlight 5 will introduce more than 40 new features, including developer productivity improvements as well as huge boost in the video quality and performance.
Key new features:
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HTML5 Awesome: Tron Trailer
Ah, the joys of HTML5.
Franz Enzenhofer has created a Tron trailer demo to demonstrate the possibilities of HTML5 canvas tag.
So what can you do with it? Add effects, change size, scale, rotation and skew.
It’s pretty neat, check it out.
Via Geek.com
Weekly Browsers Recap, December 6th
FavBrowser.com
• Firefox 5 and Hardware Accelerated Canvas for Mac OS, Linux, XP
Hardware acceleration is great if you are running Vista or Windows 7
• Optimized Firefox for Windows
Now here is something to try for a speed fanatics.
• Unwanted Firefox Plug-Ins
Asa Dotzler, the Director of Community Development at Mozilla Corp…
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Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE and Safari to Windows Phone 7
Good news for Windows Phone 7 users.
The application called Chrome to WP7 can now not only send links from Google Chrome, but also Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Firefox, Opera and Safari web browsers.
A neat little app to save your time.
