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.
IE7Pro 2.4 Released
One of the must have Internet Explorer add-ons has received an update which includes few bug fixes, added grab & drag function and modified installation package.
Unfortunately, this update doesn’t include 64bit version.
Download IE7 Pro 2.4 (32bit version)
Firefox 3.0.2 and 2.0.0.17 Released
Mozilla Corporation has recently released Firefox 3.0.2 and 2.0.0.17 which fixes various stability and security issues. It’s always recommended to update your web browser to the latest stable release, so go ahead and do that.
Fixed in Firefox 3.0.2
Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues. Continue Reading
Camino 1.6.4 Released
A new version of Camino web browser is now released. The following release includes few changes such as improved-asblocking and Mozilla Gecko rendering engine upgrade.
Changelog:
Upgraded to version 1.8.1.17 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.
Camino again displays expiration dates for Certificate Authorities in the Certificates window.
Camino no longer reads OmniWeb’s “password not saved” markers in the Keychain as valid accounts.
Improved ad-blocking. Continue Reading
Safari’s JavaScript Engine on Asteroids
Quite a while ago Opera updated their JavaScript engine. Then Firefox and Webkit (Safari) did that, after that Google Chrome and Firefox again, and now… Webkit’s (Safari) turn, introducing SquirrelFish Extreme.
So how fast is it? As this graph shows, it’s more than 2 times faster than the original SquirrelFish, an engine which was announced not so long time ago. Continue Reading
Interent Explorer 8 (IE8) Ice Sculpture
As photographer eyeliam says “It pretty much is a perfect analogy. It’s functional, rational and logical. But it looks like shit and I don’t get it.”
Opera SEO Widget
If you are into SEO (Search Engine Optimization) industry then “SEO for Firefox” add-on should be familiar for you. However, what about Opera users?
Fortunately, White Shadow managed to create one for Opera as well which is called “SEO for Opera”.
What does it do?
SEO for Opera adds a lot of useful market research information to Google/Yahoo search results, including the following for each result: Continue Reading
FavBrowser.com – 500 Posts Reached
I’m happy to announce that FavBrowser.com has finally reached 500 posts. Took more than 1 year to do that but hey, we finally did it.
Within a week or so web page will be updated a bit.
And while it’s not too late, I’m asking you to suggest anything you’d like to see or not in FavBrowser.com. Maybe you don’t like something about this page? Missing a feature? Got anything else to say? Go ahead, help us to help you!
Download Google Chrome for Linux and Mac OS X
Using Linux or Mac OS X and want to try Google Chrome? Try Chromium which codebase is based on Chrome.
Few important things which you should know before trying it:
This is just a proof of concept, for fun, and to showcase what Wine can do.
What is Wine? Continue Reading
Open Documents Online with Firefox
Now this is one of the must have add-ons for Firefox 1.5-3.0.
Open IT Online allows you to open your documents and images online without the need of any software to be installed. Open IT Online supports Google Docs, Zoho and ThinkFree online services. It handles:
– Documents (*.doc, *.rtf, *.odt, *.sxw) Continue Reading
