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.
Play Cube Defense, a WebGL Game
Cube Defense is a simple tower based defense game, discovered by our reader Nox. Just like in similar games, you have to build towers and defend yourself. Author recommends running it on latest WebKit nightly builds, as WebGL might run slow in other web browsers.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 16th
- Jetpack 0.6 dishes up two major APIs for Firefox add-on coders
- Yes, A Beta Version Of Chrome For Mac Is Just Weeks Away
- Opera Mobile 10 beta for S60 phones, updated version available
- Opera Mini Server Upgrade to 4.14.938
- WebGL Musical Solar System
- Statistics: The world stands on its head
- The future of games is in your web browser
- Mastering Lynx (Open Source Text Browser) for Search Engine Optimization
Thanks to Nox for links.
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Opera Software Q3 2009 Financial Results
Today, Opera Software has revealed their Q3 2009 financial results.
Mobile OEMs:
Decline in revenue
• Total revenue down vs 3Q08 due to lower shipments and NRE
Device OEMs:
More than 75% of revenue from licenses
• 10 new customers since 3Q08
Opera Desktop: Continue Reading
Opera 10.10 RC1 Released
Today, on Friday 13th, Opera Software has released RC build of Opera 10.10.
As far as new features go, Opera Unite is the only one, so far.
While waiting for official RC changelog, feel free to see some of the changes in the following post.
Download:
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Want to Win Nokia N900?
Mozilla is announcing yet another contest, this time it’s for best mobile add-on.
Just develop and submit your extension until December 7, 2009, and if it’s any good, judges will pick you as a winner.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 Released
Yesterday, Mozilla Foundations has released one more beta of Firefox 3.6 web browser. Sometime later, “Beta 2 Revision 2” appeared as well.
Since the very first Beta, they managed to squash over 190 bugs, resulting various improvements for users, web and add-on developers. Also, this update includes a “mechanism” which prevents incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
Thanks to Justin Stepp for news tip.
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Apple Releases Safari 4.0.4
Yesterday Apple has released Safari 4.0.4 web browser. Besides fixing 7 security vulnerabilities, the following version also offers performance and stability improvements. Therefore, it’s recommended to update your browser as soon as possible.
Changelog:
– Improved JavaScript performance
– Improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number of history items
– Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins, the search field and Yahoo! Mail
– Security fixes
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Google Chrome + Mouse Gestures = ChromePlus
Our reader Dainius has discovered a new tool/browser called “ChromePlus”. Basically, it’s a Google Chrome web browser with few additional features and without any Chrome background processes.
What additional features?
At this moment, it has the following:
Mouse gestures
Download Tools Support
IE tab
Super drag
Also, an ability to close tabs by double clicking on them.
Want to try it? Here is a home page link.
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October, 2009 – Firefox, Safari and Chrome Market Share Goes Up; IE, Opera – Down
It’s that day of the month again, when we check and let you know, which web browser is becoming more and/or less popular. So let’s begin.
Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer lost more market share and went down from 65.71% to 64.64% (1.07 point decrease).
Celebrating its 5th birthday, Firefox market share went up from 23.75% to 24.07% (0.32 point increase). Continue Reading
Happy Birthday, Firefox
November 9, 2004, that’s when Firefox 1.0 was released. Today, 5 years later, with over 330 million users and a big chunk of market share, Firefox is celebrating its 5th birthday.
Happy Birthday!
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