Archive for August, 2015

One Week With Microsoft Edge: I Wanted To Shoot Myself

By | August 16, 2015 | 36 Comments

One Week With Microsoft Edge: I Wanted To Shoot MyselfIt’s slow, buggy and unusable.

For the last week or so, I’ve been using Microsoft Edge as my daily driver just to see how exactly does it compare against Vivaldi, Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, and yes, I do have all browsers installed on my machine and use them every single day.

At first I was super excited but as the minutes went by, soon I realized that Edge is pretty much a Beta product with more holes than Swiss cheese.
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Edge Mobile To Receive “Big” New Features Soon

By | August 13, 2015 | 1 Comment

Edge Mobile To Receive “Big” New Features SoonYesterday, Microsoft has released a new Windows Mobile build to the fast ring insiders, which (despite bumping the build number by quite a margin) does not bring any new features and focuses on performance and stability improvements.

However, following the release, Microsoft Edge engineer has revealed that while this build did not bring any major changes to the web browser, you should expect some big improvements in the next build.

Now, while no one knows when will the next Windows Mobile build is going to be released, Microsoft has promised to do so more frequently, so who knows, it could be very well be the last week of August, which is not that far away.
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Web Browser Performance: Windows 10 vs. Windows 8.1 vs. Windows 7

By | August 12, 2015 | 1 Comment

 Web Browser Performance: Windows 10 vs. Windows 8.1 vs. Windows 7If you are still delaying the (likely inevitable) Windows 10 upgrade until it becomes slightly more stable, then here is something that might make you feel better: web browser performance benchmarks on the three most popular operating systems (at least in the US): Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.

Guys at TechSpot did a review and to sum up the non browser parts, Windows 10 performed slightly better when it came to gaming, booted slower and overall offered no significant advantages (or disadvantages) compared to its predecessors.
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Mozilla Pushes Out A Critical Firefox Update

By | August 11, 2015 | 0 Comments

Mozilla Pushes Out A Critical Firefox UpdateGrab it now.

As web browsers become increasingly complex with more features added (as well as APIs) every month or so, creative people find new ways to exploit them.

The latest example comes from the built in PDF viewer in Firefox, which was hacked, allowing attackers to browse through your local files and upload them to the remote servers if needed. In addition to that, once the script was executed, it removed itself from the system, making it harder to detect by the consumers.
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Opera Cuts Its Outlook, Looks For A Buyer

By | August 10, 2015 | 0 Comments

Opera Cuts Its Outlook, Looks For A Buyer

For the second time in six months, Opera has cut its performance targets by 5-20% (blaming mobile sector) although is still expected to grow its revenues by around 45% year over year to $146 million
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Surfy Browser Becomes Free

By | August 5, 2015 | 0 Comments

Surfy Browser Becomes FreeRemember the time when Opera was full of ads and you had to pay money to remove them? Apparently, the folks behind Surfy web browser were still relying on the paid browser module, which reminds us of the 90s.

Well, things are about to become normal again as Surfy us finally free as opposed to the previous price of $1.99.
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Opera 31 Gets A 70% Performance Boost

By | August 4, 2015 | 2 Comments

Opera 31 Gets A 70% Performance BoostIn startup speed.

Today, Norwegian browser maker has released the final version of Opera 31, which (among other things) brings a pretty neat, 70% start up boost compared to the previous versions, with most gains being on the computes with slower hard drivers so those rocking SSDs should not see that much of a difference, although everything opens pretty much instantly anyway so…

As far as other features go, Discover feature has been redesigned and now includes a much better layout. On a side note, we would love to see the statistics on how many % of Opera users actually use this feature.
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WhatsApp Web Will Work On Microsoft Edge

By | August 3, 2015 | 0 Comments

WhatsApp Web Will Work On Microsoft EdgeComing sometime in the future.

Earlier this year, WhatsApp has released a web version of its popular messaging client, which enabled Google Chrome users to chat on the web, with Firefox, Opera and Safari users joining the party slightly later. Unfortunately for Internet Explorer or Edge users, their browsers were never compatible.

Well, things are about to change as Microsoft Program Managers have confirmed that the companies are talking (and likely) working on a solution, which will finally enable Edge users (and there are not too many of them yet) to enjoy WhatsApp online web platform.
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