Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Preview and New Features
February 13, 2008
The upcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) new features will be soon announced at MIX 08 (Microsoft Conference, held from March 5 - March 7, 2008). Although we can’t expect all the new features to be revealed, as Internet Explorer 8 is currently in alpha stage only, it will be interesting to see them anyway. If you are reading FavBrowser.com blog some time already, you have had a change to check a list of “Leaked Internet Explorer 8” features which didn’t impress me at all. As they will be doing a preview of IE8 as well, I just hope that it won’t crash (like most of the Microsoft products) :-) Read more
Firefox 3 Beta 3 Released
February 13, 2008
Long awaited Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now released. With about 1300 changes (compared to the previous beta release), Firefox 3 Beta 3 is surely moving forward to bring users the ultimate web experience. The following release offers improved malware protection, download manager and greater performance as well. Read more
New Opera 9.5 Build Receives An Advanced Tabs Activation Feature
February 11, 2008
Today’s Opera build introduced a well known feature, which can already be found on: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and probably few others, not so well known web browsers. This new feature allows Opera users to control tabs behavior when closing them. If you will open the following settings window: Preferences > Advanced > Tabs
It’s easy to notice the following options to choose from: Read more
Firefox 2.0.0.13, Sooner Than You Thought
February 10, 2008
Just a few days ago (with the Firefox 2.0.0.12 release), “Directory Traversal Vulnerability” was supposed to be fixed. However, as it’s noted here, by the guy who discovered new security vulnerability, it wasn’t fully fixed. Here’s a quote from his blog:
Because directory traversal through plugins is all nice and such, we don’t need it. We can trick Firefox itself in traversing directories back.
Firefox 2.0.0.12 Released
February 8, 2008
New Firefox build by Mozilla Firefox team is now released. Firefox 2.0.0.12 includes a total of 10 bug fixes (3 of them are marked as critical). The following release also fixes chrome directory traversal vulnerability. It’s highly recommended to download latest version as soon as possible.
Changelog:
Camino 1.5.5 Released
February 8, 2008
Camino, web browser for Mac OS X only got an update: 1.5.5. The following release fixes some well known bugs, for example: crashes, as well as add new features and various improvements.
Changelog:
Opera Mini Voice-Overs Wanted
February 6, 2008
From my.opera.com community blog
We’re looking for people around the world to be the voices of Mini in our most recent video.
We want to republish the same video, but with your own voice-overs in your native language, whether that’s Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Polish, etc.
You can find more details about this offer here.
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Opera Browser - 12 Year History (Video)
February 6, 2008
Haven’t seen some good videos regarding web browsers long time ago. This one is just great.
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Opera Mini, February Server Upgrade
February 6, 2008
Opera Mini team has released one more server upgrade for its popular mobile phone web browser. It’s good to see that Opera 9.5 rendering engine is being integrated (more or less) into other Opera’s products like Opera Mobile (announced yesterday) and now, Opera Mini. There is also one more great future, which was is now available, it’s “opera:config”. Here’s a complete list of changes:
Mozilla Store Ads New Items
February 6, 2008
Some new items were just added.
Coffee House Mug ($8.00)
12 oz mug featuring Mozilla wordmark.
Full color coffeehouse stoneware mug with edge to edge graphics.
Handwashing is recommended.
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