Archive for September, 2010

Safari 5.0.2 and 4.1.2 Released

By | September 8, 2010 | 0 Comments

Safari 5.0.2 and 4.1.2 ReleasedRecently, Apple has released updates for both branches of its web browsers. As usual, latest version includes a couple of big fixes:

Fixes an issue that could prevent users from submitting web forms
Fixes an issue that could cause web content to display incorrectly when viewing a Google Image result with Flash 10.1 installed
Establishes an encrypted, authenticated connection to the Safari Extensions Gallery

As well as security related patches.

Download Link: Safari 5.0.2

Fake IE9 Video Leaks, Press Freaks Out

By | September 8, 2010 | 4 Comments

There seem to be a lot of buzz about the recently “leaked” IE9 video. If you have yet to see it, check the video above.

What boggles my mind is the fact that quite a few tech sites consider it to be real and already discussing “how clean the UI is”. Seriously, people?

P.S. Boy oh boy, what if this video turns out to be a real thing and IE9 is actually that bad…

Microsoft Starts Advertising IE9

By | September 7, 2010 | 9 Comments

Microsoft Starts Advertising IE9

Although IE9 is yet to be released, it looks like software giant Microsoft has already began rolling ad campaign to promote upcoming web browser.

One of such ads was noticed by IStartedSomething on TechCrunch blog and it’s highly likely that similar banners are shown over dozens of blogs and/or popular sites.
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Opera Twitter Widget

By | September 7, 2010 | 5 Comments

Opera Twitter Widget
Recently, Opera Software has released an update for its Twitter widget called “Twiget”. New version introduces quite a few UI changes, new features (including: bit.ly integration) and bug fixes.

One of the cool things about Opera’s widgets is the fact that you can simply run them outside your browser window, just like any other app.

Thanks to Twitter’s new authorization API, signing in is as easy as 1, 2, 3: launch widget, paste PIN from a newly opened web browser window and that’s pretty much it.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 6th

By | September 6, 2010 | 3 Comments

Weekly Browsers Recap, September 6th

FavBrowser.com

Internet Explorer 9 vs. Google Chrome 7 vs. Firefox 4 (Hardware Acceleration)
As Google Chrome 7 (dev) now includes hardware acceleration, guys from DownloadSquad decided to…

August, 2010 – Firefox, Chrome, Safari Share Up; Opera, Internet Explorer – Down
With few major browser releases just around the corner, let’s find out how market share has changed…
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Why Use Private Browsing Mode (18+ Picture)

By | September 6, 2010 | 5 Comments

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Web Browser Questions and Answers

By | September 5, 2010 | 12 Comments

Web Browser Questions and Answers

After a couple of requests, I have finally decided to launch a page that is ask.favbrowser.com

What is it all about?
Essentially, it is a web browser questions and answers site. Therefore, as the content starts kicking in, ask.favbrowser.com will serve as a good knowledge base for web browser related issues.

Also, you can earn points for asking and answering questions.

Can you redeem points for any cool prizes?
Not yet, but stay tunned, there will certainly be a couple of them in the near future.

Visit web browser questions and answers page.

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

By | September 3, 2010 | 22 Comments

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

With few major browser releases just around the corner, let’s find out how market share has changed over the past month.

After surprising 2 months market share increase in a row, this time Internet Explorer lost 0.34 of it, down from 60.74% to 60.40%.
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Google Chrome is 2 Years Old

By | September 2, 2010 | 21 Comments

Google Chrome is 2 Years Old

Only 2 years ago, Google has released the very first build of Chrome web browser. Now, two years later, company is celebrating its browser birthday with two new releases: stable and beta.

Google Chrome then
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Skyfire Submitted to Apple’s App Store

By | September 2, 2010 | 3 Comments

Skyfire Submitted to Apple's App StoreJust as expected, Skyfire Team has submitted their mobile web browser into Apple’s App store and is awaiting approval.

If Apple approves the app, Skyfire would allow iPhone/iPad users to enjoy Flash content that is being transcoded into HTML5 via company servers.

According to press release, Skyfire Team followed Apple guidelines, including the use of a WebKit browser core shared with Safari, and h.264 adaptive streaming.