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 9th
- Microsoft Issues Bug Fix For Recent Internet Explorer Update
- Firefox Now The Most Vulnerable Browser?
- Mozilla aborted IE in Firefox clothing, Google we’re not
- Expand shortened web addresses in Firefox
- Google closes vulnerabilities in Chrome 3
- Opera could be headed for the iPhone
- Bug in Safari browser in iPhone has surfaced
Thanks to mabdul for links.
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Firefox 3.5.5 Released
As Firefox 3.6 nears its release, Mozilla has finished one more stability update for Firefox 3.5 branch.
Version 3.5.5 fixes a total of 5 bugs and can be downloaded from the following page.
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Web Inspector Receives an Update
As of yesterday, nightly builds of Webkit now includes a significantly updated version of Web Inspector.
There are quite a few changes, so let’s take a look at them.
Editing Element Attributes and Style Properties #
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Google Chrome DOES NOT Have 30 Million Users
It seems that press is picking up a story about Google’s Chrome users count. What they fail to realize is the fact that browser had 30 million active users more than 4 months ago.
“It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly.”
Posted on 7/07/2009.
So, no, Chrome does not have 30 million users, it has over 40 million of them.
Market share:
July, 2009 – 2.59% – 30 million users reported
October, 2009 – 3.58% – ~38% increase = 41 million + users.
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Google Chrome 4, Now With Bookmark Synchronization
The latest beta release of Google Chrome 4 has received a bookmark sync feature. Now you will be able to synchronize bookmarks across multiple computers.
In addition, this release performs 30% faster than it’s predecessor (Google Chrome 3) in Mozilla’s Dromeao DOM Core Tests.
Download Google Chrome 4 Beta.
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Opera Software Blocking Some Countries (Fixed)?
Here’s what I have received, after clicking on a link from RSS feed.
As you can see, some countries are being blocked from accessing certain pages OR could be just a temporary issue/bug.
EDIT: Upon closer investigation, it appears that instead of regular link, it lead to a Chinese Opera site, which caused this issue.
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Opera Mobile 10 Beta Arrives
Today, Opera Software has revealed a new Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Symbian platform. One of the very first changes you’ll notice is a new home screen, which is almost identical to recently released Opera Mini 5. Continue Reading
Weekly Browsers Recap, November 2nd
- Security fixes, JavaScript update bog down Internet Explorer 8
- Light the World with Firefox
- 3+ Awesome Ways to Make Sense of FireFox Tabs
- Beware the Fake Google Chrome OS Download
- Google sued for Courgette updates for Chrome web browser
- Opera Unite: Application of the Week
- Browser speed comparison – HTC HD2 vs Acer neoTouch vs iPhone 3GS
- Camino 2 Release Candidate Available for Download
- Flock Releases Spanish Language Web Browser
Thanks to Nox for links.
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How to Enable Firefox 3.6 Tab Preview?
Here’s how you can enable tab preview in Firefox 3.6:
Type the following line into your address bar:
about:config
Look for:
browser.allTabs.previews
browser.ctrlTab.previews
Set both to true.
Use Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to get a list of opened ones.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Now Available
Mozilla has released a very first beta of Firefox 3.6 series web browser.
As we mentioned some time earlier, the following version now includes:
Personas support (aka light themes)
WOFF font format support
New CSS, DOM and HTML5 technologies support
Add-ons update notifications
Tabs preview
Improved JavaScript and overall performance
And few other changes
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