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 career 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, November 1st
FavBrowser.com
• HTML5: Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Google Chrome 8 vs. Firefox 4 vs. Opera 11 vs. Safari 5
Today, we test five most popular web browsers to find out…
• Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s…
Continue Reading
Download Dolphin Browser HD 4.0 for Android
Here is another browser alternative for your Android device: Dolphin HD.
With the recent 4.0 release, developers managed to fix quite a few bugs and make other modifications, such as: upgrade UI. Where can you download it? Try Android Market.
Changelog
Continue Reading
Microsoft Releases IE9 Platform Preview 6
Today, at the Microsoft PDC 2010 conference, IE team has announced the availability of 6th Platform Preview build of Internet Explorer 9.
According to the benchmark results above, company has not yet given up on the browser performance wars and continues to march forward.
What else does it bring to the table?
Continue Reading
Firefox 4 Pushed Back to 2011
It looks like Firefox 4 won’t see the daylight this year, as Mozilla has pushed its release back into early 2011, company representative announced yesterday.
As discussed in today’s Firefox delivery meeting, release candidate builds are now scheduled to ship in early 2011, with the final GA release shortly after
According to Firefox 4 schedule (which may change at any time), Beta 7 release is targeted for early November and is followed by 3 more Betas.
Better safe than sorry.
Via: NeoWin
Source: The Register
Download Firefox 3.6.12 and 3.5.15
Here comes another round of updates from Mozilla, as company has just patched two flavors of its Firefox web browser.
Both versions fix a single security vulnerability that not only affects Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5 branches, but also Thunderbird 3.1, 3.0 as well as SeaMonkey 2.
Download
Firefox 3.6.12
Firefox 3.5.15
Download Opera Mini 5.1 for Symbian and Android
Today, Opera Software has released two versions of Opera Mini 5.1 mobile web browser.
The first one is a Beta version of Opera Mini 5.1 for Symbian (S60) devices, followed by Opera Mini 5.1 update for Android platform.
Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for Symbian changelog
Continue Reading
HTML5 Video Growth Explodes
Today, MeFeedia has released an interesting piece of information.
By using data from more than 33 000 different publishers, they revealed what appears to be a pretty significant growth of HTML5 playback.
According to report, numbers have doubled in the last 5 months and as of October 2010, 54% of H.264 videos are now available for playback in HTML5.
Continue Reading
Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s beloved (or hated) Browser Ballot screen had no drastic effect after all.
While comparing Europe/North America and worldwide market share numbers, Neowin has come up with a conclusion that there is only as little as 1% difference between global and Europe figures.
So here you have it, Internet Explorer “dominance” continues.
How to Disable Internet Explorer (IE) Script Errors
Are you annoyed by IE script error messages? Here’s how to disable them:
– Tools > Internet Options.
– Open Advanced tab
– Find Browsing section
– Check the following boxes:
Disable script debugging (Internet Explorer)
Disable script debugging (Other)
– Click OK
All set.
