Opera 10 RC Released
After 3 beta releases, Opera 10 has finally reached release candidate development stage. Although this is not a final version yet, it should be quite stable and might be ready for general use.
Opera 10 Final is set for September 1st release.
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RIM Buys Torch Mobile, Package Includes Iris Browser
Last week RIM has announced upcoming full Flash and Silverlight support for BlackBerry devices. To speed everything up, they have acquired a company specializing in WebKit based solutions: Torch Mobile.
One of the company’s key products is WebKit based, mobile web browser called “Iris Browser” (free), which supports touch screen control, widget rendering engine, advanced HTML, CSS support and more.
The Iris Browser is currently available for Windows Mobile and QTopia platforms.
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Cats and Firefox Support
What do cats and Firefox support (support.mozilla.com) have in common? Apparently, feedback suggests that almost 50% of users arrived to support page by a mistake. Who are those to blame? Cats, of course!
Here are some comments written by people, who’ve accidentally visited support page (as from blog.mozilla.com)
“actually the cat walked on the keyboard”
“bent over to pick something up and accidentally leaned on the f1 key”
“Cat jumped onto laptop”
“CHILD GOT A HOLD OF THE KEYBOARD AND STARTED PUSHING BUTTONS.”
“finger too big. finger hit f1 by mistake. stupid bigfinger.” Continue Reading
Weekly Browsers Recap, August 24th
- Firefox 3 about to get a major update
- Please tell me Firefox won’t ever look like this on first run. (Picture)
- Seeking web security, exploit operators prefer Firefox, Opera comes second
- Google Chrome 4 reveals the beginnings of cloud synchronization
- Xmarks extension alpha for Chrome arrives
- HTML 5 and timed media
Thanks to Chrome, Nox and Opera for links.
Google Chrome 64 bit (x64)
Good news for Linux users. After quite a few changes, 64 bit version of Google Chrome (Chromium) 4 has been released for Ubuntu operating system.
You may download the latest build here and use the following instructions to compile it.
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Yahoo! Recommends Internet Explorer 8
Back in August 2008, Yahoo recommended users to get Firefox 3 web browser. However, things do change as TechCrunch reports that Yahoo started to promote Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8.
As it ways said: “Apparently, Yahoo recommends browsers based on what their latest business alliances are”.
RIM Plans Full Flash and Silverlight Support
According to Boy Genius, RIM is planning to integrate full Flash and Silverlight support into their BlackBerry web browser.
Although there is no official ETA, you should not expect it up until next summer.
OS X: WebKit Outeperforms Chromium in JavaScript Benchmark
Ars Technica reports that the latest build of WebKit has outperformed Chromium by more than 15% in SunSpider benchmark.
They have also tested Safari 4.0.3, Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1, Firefox 3.5.2, Camino 2.0 Beta 3 and Opera 10 Beta 3 web browsers.
Lower is better
Mozilla Execs Want Changes to Microsoft’s ‘Ballot Screen’ Proposal
Computer World writes:
Mozilla executives today began a concerted campaign to prod European Union (EU) antitrust regulators to demand more from Microsoft than the browser “ballot screen” Windows will offer users later this year.
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NSS Security Test: More Details Emerge
Here are some more details from Ars Tecnica, which should clarify Microsoft and NSS Labs “sponsorship” deal.
In terms of sponsorship of the reports, “this stuff is expensive to do right, and we need to monetize it somehow,” Moy told Ars. “We invited Google, Mozilla, Apple, Opera to participate, but they didn’t even bother to respond, except for Opera, which stated they “don’t really focus on malware.”
Also, readers have noticed that Firefox 3.5 was not included in those tests, here is a reason (as from .pdf).
We would have liked to have been able to test Firefox 3.5 which was released on June 30, 2009, and attempted to test it alongside the other browsers. However, serious instability where the browser repeatedly crashed (a widely reported issue) along with poor results prevented its inclusion for the sake of fairness.
For NSS Security Test results, see the following page.
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