Archive for December, 2011

Web Browsers As Girls

By | December 8, 2011 | 14 Comments

Following such posts as:

Web Browsers as Famous Girls,
Girls as Browsers and
If Browsers Were Women

Here is another one from the Mother Russia itself.
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Google Gets Aggressive With Chrome Promotion

By | December 7, 2011 | 5 Comments

Google Gets Aggressive With Chrome Promotion

Gives away exclusive items in Runescape.

What happens when you have marketing team that thinks outside the box (or at least copy ideas from other markets)? Something like this:

As one of our readers noticed, if you install Google Chrome and play one of the most successful MMORPGs of all time (Runescape that is), you will receive an exclusive item that cannot be obtained in any other way.
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Firefox Multi Process Feature On Hold

By | December 6, 2011 | 23 Comments

Firefox Multi Process Feature On HoldElectrolysis, a codename for the upcoming Firefox feature that is set to separate user processes from the content process has been put on hold, according to Mozilla’s Lawrence Mandel.

While there is no mentioning of a specific timeline or any future date, according to Lawrence, multi process implementation requires a lot of time and resource investments, which is not exactly what Mozilla wants at this moment.
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Download Opera 11.60 Final

By | December 6, 2011 | 61 Comments

Download Opera 11.60 Final

Here comes an early Christmas present for all the Opera users, as Norwegian browser maker has just released the final version of Opera 11.60 for you to download.

What’s new, you may ask? While it adds additional web standards support and fixes few bugs here and there, the most noticeable change in Opera 11.60 is a new mail reader, which is significantly improved when compared to previous versions of Opera.
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Internet Explorer: Disable Facebook News Ticker

By | December 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

Internet Explorer: Disable Facebook News TickerSome time ago, we wrote on how to disable the Facebook news ticker in Google Chrome. Turns out, you can do that on IE9 as well.

Here is how:
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Firefox: How To Backup Firefox Profiles, Bookmarks, Passwords and Other Data

By | December 4, 2011 | 2 Comments

If you are reinstalling your OS or just want to migrate Firefox settings into another PC, here is a simple tutorial on how to speed up the process.

– Download FavBackup
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November, 2011: Google Chrome Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera – Down

By | December 2, 2011 | 51 Comments

With just one month left before the end of 2011, it’s time to check the latest stats for the browsers market share.

Falling below 50% last time, Internet Explorer is now down from 49.58% to 48.95% (0.63 point decrease).
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Download Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4

By | December 1, 2011 | 17 Comments

Download Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4

Works on Windows 8 only.

Continuing working on the next version of IE, software giant has recently released the fourth Internet Explorer platform preview.

In addition to various performance improvements and bug fixes, IE10 also includes hardware acceleration support for SVG, CSS3 transforms and animations, according to Microsoft,
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Backup Your Browser Data: FavBackup 2.1.2 Released

By | December 1, 2011 | 12 Comments

Browsers Backup: FavBackup 2.1.2 Released

Good news, we have just released a new version of FavBackup for you to play with. No major changes, just additional web browser versions support.

Changelog

– Added Google Chrome 16 Support
– Added Firefox 7 and Firefox 8 Support
– Added Opera 11.60 Support

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