Archive for January, 2015

Say Goodbye To Flash, YouTube Switches To HTML5

By | January 29, 2015 | 3 Comments

Say Goodbye To Flash, YouTube Switches To HTML5Another nail to the coffin.

For many, Facebook and YouTube are two of the biggest reasons why Flash is still a necessity (unless you use Chrome, which has it installed already).

Now, it looks like the social network will be the only one left as Google has finally made a much needed decision: ditch Flash. Yes, it means that from now on, YouTube will default to HTML5 player instead.
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Grab Chrome 40 For IOS With Material Design

By | January 28, 2015 | 0 Comments

Grab Chrome 40 For IOS With Material DesignAfter announcing Android Lollipop (5.0) and a new design language called Material Design, Google has finally released Chrome for Ios, which too got the new UI treatment.

Despite the fact that Chrome has already been optimized for iPhone 6 and its giant brother, the new release now fully supports Apple’s Handoff feature, allowing you to switch between Mac OS X and iOS.

Unfortunately, Google is yet to use (if ever) Apple’s Nitro engine, which Apple opened up to the third party developers last year.
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Microsoft Confirms That Spartan Will Support Extensions

By | January 28, 2015 | 0 Comments

Microsoft Confirms That Spartan Will Support ExtensionsGood news for people that are skeptical about the rumors that Microsoft upcoming web browser will support extensions.

Thanks to the recent confirmation by the software giant itself via Twitter (“we’re working on a plan for extensions for a future update to Project Spartan”), we can now say for sure that Spartan will indeed support everyone’s beloved add-ons.
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Microsoft Considers The Following Names For Spartan

By | January 26, 2015 | 6 Comments

Microsoft Considers The Following Names For SpartanThanks to a tipster who was surveyd by the Microsoft itself regarding the name of a new web browser, WPC learned that the software giant is considering the following names for Spartan:

– Entourage
– Elixa
– Evo
– Evex
– Endeavor
– Edge
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This Is Microsoft‘s Spartan

By | January 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

This Is Microsoft‘s SpartanIt‘s official.

During yesterday‘s (and today‘s) presentation, Microsoft has finally oficially revealed Project Spartan, it‘s newest web browser aimed for all kinds of machines running Windows 10 as it supports: touch, keyboard & mouse, gestures, voice, even controllers and sensors.

So how does it look like? Like Chrome or pretty much any other Webkit based web browser. In addition to that, it looks like Microsoft has also decided to move the URL bar to the top on the mobile devices (IE Mobile has address bar placed in the bottom), which makes us wonder why, as it now requires much more finger effort to access it, especially on larger screen devices.
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Spartan & Windows 10 Event Live Stream & Countdown

By | January 21, 2015 | 0 Comments

Spartan & Windows 10 Event Live Stream & Countdown

Just a heads up, if you are looking for a Windows 10 event live stream link then you’ve found it.

There is also a countdown that you can see in the following page.
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Spartan Might Support Chrome Extensions

By | January 20, 2015 | 0 Comments

Spartan Might Support Chrome ExtensionsYour eyes are not deceiving you.

As Microsoft plans to reveal Windows 10 and likely Spartan to the world tomorrow, another leak has spoiled more fun.

According to the new report, Microsoft’s Spartan will be able to support Chrome extensions (whether natively or not it’s unknown). As a result, it should be able to quickly grow its extensions gallery without requiring developers to start coding from scratch.
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Download Firefox 35 Final

By | January 19, 2015 | 0 Comments

Download Firefox 35 FinalThe first stable release of 2015.

The Holiday season is over and it’s time to start cranking up browser builds again.

First in the list is Firefox 35, which recently hit the stable channel. Here’s what’s new:
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Following Mozilla’s Deal, Yahoo! Triples Its Market Share

By | January 16, 2015 | 3 Comments


If you are wondering how exactly the new search engine deal (where Yahoo! replaced Google as a default search engine in Firefox) has affected the trends in the industry, just take a look at the new data from Net Applications.

According to the new stats, Yahoo! has managed to [almost] triple its market share, up from 3.52% to 9.31% (5.79 points increase).
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December, 2014 Desktop Market Share: Netscape Replaces Opera

By | January 16, 2015 | 4 Comments


Now here is something weird to kick start your day.

It looks like Net Applications have stopped reporting Opera in its “Desktop Top Browser Share Trend” and have replaced it with Netscape, which for some weird reason have also managed to increase its market share by 0.05 point in December.
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