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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Internet Explorer vs. Firefox vs. Chrome vs. Safari vs. Opera

By | June 25, 2009 | 12 Comments

Internet Explorer vs. Firefox vs. Chrome vs. Safari vs. OperaIt seems that everyone is testing web browsers this week.

While some sites are posting usual SunSpider results, Codexon has decided to run something closer to the “real life situations”.

As a result, he loaded 10 web sites and calculated load time.

Sites used:

Baidu.com – Chinese Google
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Review Opera Mini and Win Trip to Norway

By | June 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

Review Opera Mini and Win Trip to NorwayBlackBerryCool.com is running a nice contest in which you can win all inclusive trip to Oslo, Norway and visit Opera Software headquarters. Other prizes include: software gift cards, accessories and an advanced preview of an unseen version of Opera Mini (now that’s cool).

Things you need: Blackberry and Opera Mini

For more information, check the contest page.

Browser Comparison Test: Internet Explorer vs. Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome

By | June 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

PCGamesHardware Writes:

PC Games Hardware tested the speed of the internet browsers Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, 3.0.11 and 3.5b99, Opera 9.6 and 10, Safari 3.1.1 and 4.0, Chrome 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 with the benchmarks Peacekeeper and Sunspider and checked them with the Acid tests as well.

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Firefox 3.5 RC3 Released

By | June 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

The third and likely last Firefox 3.5 release candidate has been released. This build introduces some minor changes in icon as well as performance and stability tweaks.

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3 Internet Explorer 8 Video Ads

By | June 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. – Internet Explorer 8

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Camino 1.6.8 Released

By | June 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

Camino 1.6.8 ReleasedThe latest Camino version 1.6.8 has been released to address a couple of bugs as well as improve user experience with improved ad blocking and updated Gecko rendering engine.

Changelog
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Opera Unite on Your Own Domain Name

By | June 23, 2009 | 0 Comments

In case you would like to setup your own domain name instead of using default URL, Lachlan Hunt has published a tutorial which explains how to do that.

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Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 Released

By | June 23, 2009 | 0 Comments

Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 ReleasedGoogle has released an update for Google Chrome web browser which fixes a critical security issue and few networking bugs.

  • CVE-2009-2121: Buffer overflow processing HTTP responses
    Google Chrome is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in handling certain responses from HTTP servers. A specially crafted response from a server could crash the browser and possibly allow an attacker to run arbitrary code.
  • NTLM authentication to Squid proxies fails when trying to connect to HTTPS sites
  • Browser crash when loading some HTTPS sites

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Weekly Browsers Recap, June 22nd

By | June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

Weekly Browsers Recap, June 22nd

Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features

By | June 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

With the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release, LifeHacker has published a post on top 10 Firefox 3.5 features.

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