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.

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Google Chrome Stop Motion Lego (Video)

By | August 6, 2009 | 0 Comments

Here is a fascinating Chrome Logo video by Renaud.

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Video Interview with Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner

By | August 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Google Loves Speed, Improves Chrome Performance Again

By | August 5, 2009 | 7 Comments

Google Loves Speed, Improves Chrome Performance AgainWith the latest Chrome Beta release, Google has announced some great improvements in both, usability and performance areas.

You can now rearrange web sites on New Tab page using drag and drop action, pin the ones you like or even hide specific site elements.

Omnibox was tweaked as well. Added icons should help users to distinguish between searches, bookmarks, suggested sites or the ones from history. Continue Reading

IE6 No More

By | August 5, 2009 | 20 Comments

IE6 No More
Here comes another campaign to kill Internet Explorer 6 and urge its user to upgrade their browser.

As always, web masters are asked to add a special code into their site (which is ridiculous long) and hope for the best. Continue Reading

Coding a HTML 5 Layout from Scratch

By | August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

Coding a HTML 5 Layout from Scratch
With all the buzz building around the awesomeness of HTML 5, Smashing Magazine has published a great article called “Coding a HTML 5 Layout from Scratch“.

Worth checking if you are a web developer.

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5.2, Fixes Bugs

By | August 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

Mozilla has released updates for Firefox 3.5 and 3.0 web browsers. The latest 3.5 version fixes a total of 70 bugs and 6 security vulnerabilities, (4 of them are marked as critical).

Changelog.
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July, 2009 – IE Continues to Fall, Chrome Surpasses Opera, Safari Market Share

By | August 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

New month and new market share data. Lets get it going.

Breaking through 60% barrier, Internet Explorer lost more market share, this time by 1.02 point, from 59.49% to 58.47%

Celebrating 1 billion downloads last week; Firefox increased its market share by 1.32, from 30.33% to 31.65%

Due to unknown reasons, Opera took a massive dive and fell by 0.66, from 3.36% to 2.7%

Just like Firefox, Chrome is also doing well. After increasing its market share by 0.41, from 2.82% to 3.23%, it has surpassed both, Opera and Safari web browsers market share.

Safari popularity is growing. This time its market share went up from 2.93% to 2.98% (0.09 point increase).

July, 2009 – IE continues to fall, Chrome surpasses Opera Market Share

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Weekly Browsers Recap, August 3rd

By | August 3, 2009 | 2 Comments

Weekly Browsers Recap, August 3rd

Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks, Nox and somebody for links.

Microsoft: No Browserless Windows 7 After All

By | August 1, 2009 | 11 Comments

Microsoft: No Browserless Windows 7 After AllcNET Writes:

It looks like there won’t be a browserless version of Windows 7, after all.

Microsoft said late Friday that it won’t ship the Windows 7 “E” version of Windows even though Europe has yet to sign off on its revised plan. The plan calls for the company to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer, but present a ballot screen in which users in Europe can decide whether they want Internet Explorer or another browser.

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Firefox Reaches 1 Billion Downloads

By | July 31, 2009 | 0 Comments

Firefox Reaches 1 Billion Downloads

It’s official; combining all the Firefox downloads (not just 3.5), flaming fox was downloaded more than 1 billion times.

What’s the population of the world you ask? It’s 6,706,993,152 (July 2008 est.).

Firefox

Warm congratulations to Mozilla and all Firefox users.

From Mozilla HQ Continue Reading