Opera Mobile 10 Beta Arrives
Today, Opera Software has revealed a new Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Symbian platform. One of the very first changes you’ll notice is a new home screen, which is almost identical to recently released Opera Mini 5. Continue Reading
Weekly Browsers Recap, November 2nd
- Security fixes, JavaScript update bog down Internet Explorer 8
- Light the World with Firefox
- 3+ Awesome Ways to Make Sense of FireFox Tabs
- Beware the Fake Google Chrome OS Download
- Google sued for Courgette updates for Chrome web browser
- Opera Unite: Application of the Week
- Browser speed comparison – HTC HD2 vs Acer neoTouch vs iPhone 3GS
- Camino 2 Release Candidate Available for Download
- Flock Releases Spanish Language Web Browser
Thanks to Nox for links.
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How to Enable Firefox 3.6 Tab Preview?
Here’s how you can enable tab preview in Firefox 3.6:
Type the following line into your address bar:
about:config
Look for:
browser.allTabs.previews
browser.ctrlTab.previews
Set both to true.
Use Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to get a list of opened ones.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Now Available
Mozilla has released a very first beta of Firefox 3.6 series web browser.
As we mentioned some time earlier, the following version now includes:
Personas support (aka light themes)
WOFF font format support
New CSS, DOM and HTML5 technologies support
Add-ons update notifications
Tabs preview
Improved JavaScript and overall performance
And few other changes
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Opera Working on Windows 7 Features Support
In the Opera forums post, one of the Opera’s developers has mentioned that they are implementing Windows 7 features “that makes sense” for the upcoming browser version.
Although not many details were revealed, he said: “Multi-touch is certainly one of those things we will evaluate as part of this process.”.
In the meantime, we can only hope that some of those implementations will be already available in Opera 10.10 Final release.
Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks for news tip.
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Pwning Opera Unite with Inferno’s Eleven
Guys from SecureThoughts.com decided to do a research on Opera Unite security and share some insights.
1. Enumerating Service Owner Usernames
Use: site:operaunite.com search query in search engine to build a list.
2. Enumerating Computer names for a particular Service Owner
“If you visit the service homepage with any non-existent computer name, then Opera Unite happily discloses all computer names used by that person.” Continue Reading
SeaMonkey 2.0 Final Hits the Streets
A new version of all-in-one Internet application suite SeaMonkey has been released.
What exactly SeaMonkey is?
It’s a web browser (Firefox platform), Mail and Newsgroups client (Thunderbird platform), HTML Editor, ChatZilla IRC chat application, DOM inspector and a little bit more.
SeaMonkey 2.0 changes:
The following release includes various new features, such as: new add-on manager, session restore, tabbed mail, reworked download manager and lots of other improvements.
Thanks to Nox for news tip.
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Grab Opera 10.01 Now
While waiting for Opera 10.10 Final release, Daniel Hendrycks has noticed a very first Opera 10.0x update, which is already uploaded to Opera Software servers. Although there are no official announcements yet, you can already download it from their website.
Opera 10.01 fixes a total of 3 security issues, also, various interface, mail, news and other issues.
Download.
Opera 10.01 changelog.
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Firefox 3.5.4 and 3.0.15 Released, 100+ Bugs Fixed
Today, Mozilla has released security and stability updates for Firefox 3.5 and 3.0 web browser branches.
Firefox 3.5.4 fixes a total of 124 bugs, where 11 of them are security vulnerabilities.
Firefox 3.0.14 now includes 10 security and 15 other fixes.
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Flash Re-Enabled on Fennec 1.9.2
The latest Fennec (Firefox Mobile) nightly build now includes Flash support which was disabled some time earlier.
As this is not a final release, you may experience some issues, so use on your own risk.
