Archive for March, 2011
Weekly Questions Recap, March 7th
Don’t forget that you can receive points for asking/answering questions and redeem them for cool prizes.
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Nintendo Ditches Opera
It looks like Nintendo has decided to change the gears as its latest handheld console called Nintendo 3DS will no longer feature the Opera web browser that was previously announced for DS, DSi and Wii devices.
Instead, it will rely on NetFront which is also used by Sony’s PSP devices.
Access NetFront features high speed JavaScript engine, visual bookmarks, different rendering modes and even offers partial HTML5 support.
Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, March 7th
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- February, 2011 – Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Firefox, Opera – Down
- Web Browsers Usage By Country
- How Would You Change Internet Explorer?
- IE6 Countdown
- Download Firefox 3.6.14 And 3.5.17
- Onclick Javascript Does Not Work in Google Chrome and Firefox?
- 19 Chrome Bugs Fixed in Preparation for Pwn2Own Hacking Contest
- Safari Adopts WebKit2
- Download Opera with Hardware Acceleration
- Opera 11.10 to Include Password Synchronization
Opera 11.10 to Include Password Synchronization
Our reader Mark has noticed an interesting piece of code in the latest Opera snapshot.
opera:config#OperaSync|SyncPasswordManager
Although password manager synchronization is yet to be announced, it does not stop us from doing that now.
On the side note, recent Opera 11.10 builds also include: new internal pages styling, speed dial animation and zoom and more.
Onclick Javascript Does Not Work in Google Chrome and Firefox?
If you have found that onclick event does not work on Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari web browsers, then here is quick way to fix it:
Replace onclick form id with its name
For example, let’s say you have the following:
id=”form1″ name=”checkform1″
Find JS event:
onclick=”document.form1.cSSld.value=””
Replace with:
onclick=”document.checkform1.cSSld.value=””
All set. It now works with all web browsers.
IE6 Countdown
In the world where it’s cool to hate Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft has launched a new site that displays the market share of this abomination.
By using data from Net Applications, web developers have put up a nice worldwide map which shows IE6 usage for every country.
Who takes the lead? China, with staggering 34.5%.
Thanks, RamaSubbu SK.
Web Browsers Usage By Country
BrowserRank has put up a world map which displays the most popular web browsers in various countries, both desktop and mobile.
19 Chrome Bugs Fixed in Preparation for Pwn2Own Hacking Contest
Nine researchers were paid a total of $14,000 in bug bounties for bringing the Chrome bugs to Google’s attention. The company then promptly patched them last Monday.
Pwn2Own, an annual hacking contest that takes place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, was most likely the trigger for the updates, for Google fixed security flaws a week before last year’s Pwn2Own contest as well.
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Download Firefox 3.6.14 And 3.5.17
While everyone waits for the final build of Firefox 4, Mozilla has not yet forgotten previous versions and have released security updates for both, Firefox 3.6 and 3.5 branches.
Both releases fix a total of 10 security related vulnerabilities (8 critical) as well as several stability bugs.
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Firefox 3.6.14
Firefox 3.5.17
Release Notes
Firefox 3.6.14
Firefox 3.5.17
February, 2011 – Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Firefox, Opera – Down
It’s the 1st of March already, so let’s dive into February market share data.
With the release of Internet Explorer 9 RC, Microsoft has taken some share back, up from 56.00% to 56.77% (0.77 point increase).
While everyone awaits the final version of Firefox 4, an open source web browser continues the downtrend, from 22.75% to 21.74% (1.01 point decrease).
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