Author Archive: Vygantas
Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism carrier back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.
Weekly Browsers Recap, July 5th
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• IE6 is “Safer” than Chrome or Opera
US Bank Chase has decided to stop supporting Opera and Chrome web browsers, implying security issues and low popularity.
• June, 2010 – Internet Explorer Gains Market Share; Firefox, Opera – Loses
As yet another month has passed by, it’s time to find out, how browsers market share has evolved over past 30 days.
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Opera and Google Chrome Hitler Parody
Hitler thinks that Chrome, his favorite browser, is the fastest. But he is about to discover that he is wrong, and his generals will experience his wrath!
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2 Billion Firefox Add-on Downloads
Since the launch of Firefox add-ons back in 2005, it took company more than 3 years to surpass 1 billion downloads mark (November 2008).
Yesterday, Mozilla announced that add-ons have now been downloaded more than 2 billion times and over 150 billion of them are used every single day.
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June, 2010 – Boom! Internet Explorer Gains Market Share; Firefox, Opera – Loses
As yet another month has passed by, it’s time to find out, how browsers market share has evolved over past 30 days.
Surprisingly, Internet Explorer has increased its market share by 0.57 point, from 59.75% to 60.32%.
Firefox market share has been consolidating for a while now. This time it went down from 24.32% to 23.81%, 0.51 point decrease.
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Firefox Home Submitted to Apple App Store
It looks like Mozilla has finally finished Firefox Home application and submitted it to Apple’s App Store. Pricing was revealed as well: it’s totally free.
As we wrote earlier, Firefox Home is a simple iPhone application (based on Weave Sync), that allows iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad users to access their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and tabs from their most recent browsing session.
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Opera 10.60 Final Released
After 3 Release Candidate builds, Opera Software has just announced the availability of Opera 10.60 Final.
What’s New?
Opera 10.60 offers a couple of new features, such as: additional HTML5 elements support, Geolocation and WebM support, search suggestions for Bing and Wikipedia, up to 50% performance improvements (thanks to Presto 2.6.30 rendering engine), improved interface, stability and more.
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Skyfire Halts Most Countries Support
Just a couple months ago, Skyfire has decided to expand its services and provide with an opportunity to download mobile web browser for people outside the U.S.
Well, it appears that company is backing up this decision. Starting from tomorrow (July 1, 2010), Skyfire will stop supporting countries other than UK, USA and Canada.
Users from other countries will receive the following message:
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Firefox Tabs on Top Add-On
If you don’t feel like waiting for the final Firefox 4 release (which does have tabs on top), there is a simple add-on, that provides you with the very same feature for Firefox 3.0 – 3.7a4pre web browsers.
In addition, it also supports Firefox 3.6 Personas, therefore, you shouldn’t experience any distortions while using.
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Opera 10.60 RC3 Released
Well, here we go again. Third RC from Opera Software was just released.
If release pattern is anything like 10.50 was, you can expect final Opera 10.60 release sometime this week.
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Opera 10.60 RC2 Released
It appears that Opera Software continues its rushed releases policy.
Just a day after the first Release Candidate build, company has now released Opera 10.60 RC2.
This build fixes a total of 10 bugs and can be downloaded here.
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