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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Firefox 3.1 Beta Hits the Streets

By | October 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

Mozilla has officially released the very first Beta of its upcoming Firefox 3.1 web browser. Basically 3.1 features (but not all of them) are something what was originally planned for Firefox 3. The following release also received some nice performance improvements and various enhancements.

Key New Features

Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine Continue Reading

Flock 2.0 is here

By | October 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

It’s here. The final version of social web browser Flock 2.0 is now released. Unlike some other web browsers which want to be as light as possible, Flock thinks different. More is better.

What’s New?

Flock 2.0 is based on the Firefox 3 technology, providing a faster, safer, and more stable web surfing experience. Continue Reading

Tweak Your Firefox 3 Download Manager

By | October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

The download manager was dramatically improved for Firefox 3: a progress indicator in the status bar, automatic antivirus scans, a streamlined interface with filtering capabilities, and most notably, download resuming across sessions.

As usual, you can use all these enhancements without touching anything, or go the customization way and tweak a preference or two.

Continue reading at MozillaLinks

Resume an Accidentally Removed/Missing Transfer in Opera

By | October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment

This tip will help you to resume a download (especially large size) in the following cases.
Accidentally removed transfer from the transfers tab.
Closed Opera with an intention to resume download next day but transfer is missing when Opera is started.
Resume download using another mirror.

1. Rename the downloaded part Continue Reading

Firefox Mobile Screenshots

By | October 12, 2008 | 7 Comments

Here you go, first Firefox Mobile (Fennec) screenshots for Windows Mobile. This is how it will probably look like after the alpha release.

Acid3 88/100, sweet.

Enjoy. Continue Reading

FavBrowser.com 2.2

By | October 11, 2008 | 7 Comments

Hi there,

I’ve finally finished this blog upgrade. The hardest part was probably skin migration from WordPress 2.2 to 2.6. Yes, we are now using WordPress 2.6.

What’s New?

Contact form Continue Reading

Web Browser for Kids – Surf Knight

By | October 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

One more web browser for kids is trying to enter the market. This one is called Surf Knight.

Surf Knight is based on Microsoft Internet Explorer (everyone loves IE, right?).

Once you launch it for the first time, it requires you to enter a root password and set some parental settings: Continue Reading

25 Resources for Learning How to Customize Your Browser

By | October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

25 Resources for Learning How to Customize Your BrowserUsing Internet Explorer? Maybe Firefox, Safari, Opera or Chrome? Here’s a resource list for you by Doriano.

No matter which browser you prefer, there’s a plethora of ways to customize the way you surf the Web. There are countless plugins, extensions, toolbars and more. Some of these are easy to install while others require a little more effort.

We’ve put together a list of some of the best instructional resources for the most popular browsers today, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and even the still wet behind the ears rookie, Google Chrome.

Opera 10 to Have Inline Spell Check

By | October 8, 2008 | 13 Comments

Opera 10 to Have Inline Spell CheckFinally, right step was made towards Opera web browser development. With the Opera 9.6 released post, one of the Opera developers (olli) included this:

Starts testing Peregrine and Inline Spell check

Yes, it will finally have integrated inline spell check, just like every other browser. What’s next? Auto complete? Who knows, maybe.

[digg-reddit-me]

Opera New Promotional Video

By | October 8, 2008 | 4 Comments

And it’s called “Sketch of my life

Maybe it makes sense to Opera users. Only few seconds of mentioning Opera? Why use it? What are the benefits? Why “blue e” is worse? Come on, you can do it better.