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.
Google Chrome Offline (Standalone) Installer
In case you haven’t heard yet, Google now provides a standalone installer for its Chrome web browser.
You can download it here.
Ford Shows Some Love to Opera Browser
As the technologies advance, car maker Ford decided to include Opera Browser into their new F-150, Super Duty, E-Series and Transit Connect trucks and vans to attract more buyers.
“Opera’s vision has always been about giving people access to the full Web anytime, anywhere,” explains Rod Hamlin, Senior Vice President Americas for Opera Software. “No example showcases this better than delivering a fast, feature-rich Web browser to a vehicle. This solution will allow Ford truck and van owners to maintain a virtual work environment with access to all of the important files, information and applications they need on a daily basis.”
Webware 100 (Browsing) – The Finalists
If you would like to support your favorite web browser by voting at cNET Webware 100, feel free to do that now.
Poll includes the following browsers: Camino, Firefox, Flock, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8, Lunascape, Maxthon, Opera, Safari, Skyfire and WebKit.
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Browser Battle: Startup and Page Load Times
David Naylor has compared Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4 Beta, Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, Chrome 2 Beta and Opera 10 Alpha web browsers to see which of them performs the best.
Results (less is better) Continue Reading
Weekly Browsers Recap, March 30th
- 10 IE Browser Settings for Safer Surfing
- 5 ways to power up Internet Explorer 8
- Microsoft Crawling All Over IE 8 Bugs
- Internet Explorer 8: Why make the leap?
- eBay launches bespoke version of IE8
- Find the right Firefox add-ons
- Safari hacker talks security
- The genius behind Google’s web browser
- Google showcases Javascript engine with Chrome Experiments website
- Opera seeks dominance in world of widgets
- Opera Still Cooking With CSS3 On the Way
Firefox 3.0.8 Released
Although Firefox 3.0.8 was planned for release next week, Mozilla managed to rush it and has already fixed 2 critical security issues.
This is a recommended security update for all Firefox 3 users.
Firefox 3.0.8 – Next Week
Mozilla will be releasing Firefox 3.0.8 next week which should fix exploitable crash in bug (marked as critical) discovered earlier this week.
The current release date is set to March 30 – April 1.
Opera Mobile 9.7 Details Emerge
The first details on the upcoming Opera Mobile 9.7 release have been revealed. One of the key features in the following version will be Opera Turbo support. In the demo video a complex page with Opera Turbo enabled managed to load site 3x times faster than the one without it.
Opera Mobile 9.7 will also speed up browsing experience due to rendering engine improvements. Actually, it will use Presto 2.2 engine (same as in Opera 10).
For more information (and improvements), please visit the following post.
Demo Video: Continue Reading
