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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Press Releases – Opera

By | August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

Press Releases - OperaI always wanted to share all the news about web browsers. However, there are plenty of those which are just “too small” to be posted.

So from now on, every few days (or a week) we will have a short brief of some of them.

Jamba and Opera Software integrate premier content into mobile browsers
(Opera links Jamba bookmark to enable faster Web browsing).

15+ Tools to Turn Firefox 3 into a Social Hub

By | August 14, 2008 | 4 Comments

Do you like social sites but just don’t want to try Flock? Miss any it’s features in Firefox? Here’s a solution:

Sean P. Aune published an article on how you can use 15+ tools to turn Firefox 3 into a social hub. Feel free to check it out.

How to Speed Up Firefox?

By | August 11, 2008 | 14 Comments

How to Speed Up Firefox?Here is a great tip from shashank on how to make Firefox 10 times faster.

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” Continue Reading

Camino 1.6.3 Released

By | August 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

Camino 1.6.3 ReleasedCamino 1.6.3 web browser for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later is now released. This release contains the following improvements over the version 1.6.2:

Upgraded to version 1.8.1.16 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.

Download Camino 1.6.3: English or Multilingual

Opera is Working on Something Special?

By | August 8, 2008 | 12 Comments

Opera is Working on Something Special?It looks like Opera Software will be launching something quite interesting this year (probably).

As it was said in their latest post:

We are now putting together a crack team of software experts in Linköping, Sweden, that will work on some very exciting new stuff indeed. Of course I can’t tell you exactly what’s being developed in this top-secret Opera base, but its technology that’s able to transform the browser as we know it, using the latest computer hardware to our advantage. Continue Reading

50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Writers

By | August 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for WritersHere is a great article by Laura Milligan for Firefox users.
It covers various writing related aspects such as: Quick Reference, Staying Connected, Saving, Bookmarking and Organizing, Files, Privacy and much more…

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Everyone Loves IE – Sitemeter Kills Thousands of Sites for IE Users

By | August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments

Everyone Loves IE - Sitemeter Kills Thousands of Sites for IE UsersThe behavior began few days ago whene Sitemeter updated their scripts. Unfortunately, they forgot about a bug of the Internet Explorer (really old one) that has been causing a “Operation aborted” error.

If your web page had a Sitemeter counter, Internet Explorer users eventually see an “Operation aborted” error message. Once they click OK, the whole page disappears and is replaced by a blank page.

Whose fault is this? Both of course. However, this is not a new and/or unknown bug; they just didn’t test it on Internet Explorer = bad idead.

Via TechCrunch & Motls

Firefox, Safari, Opera Doesn’t Load CSS Stylesheets?

By | July 30, 2008 | 15 Comments

Firefox, Safari, Opera doesn’t Load CSS Stylesheets?Are you having issues viewing various web pages from time to time where css style sheets don’t load?

Solution might be simpler than you thought. One of the reasons why it can happen is due to AdBlock. In case you are blocking ads on the web page, unblock them all and try now.

It worked for me.

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2 Features Revealed

By | July 29, 2008 | 5 Comments

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2Although the 2nd beta of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) will be released on August only, new Beta 2 features were revealed earlier today.

What’s new?

Frame Process Merging

Instead of running 2 processes every time you launch Internet Explorer 8, it will use 1 now = improved startup performance. Continue Reading

Firefox 3.1 Alpha Released

By | July 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3.1 Alpha ReleasedThe first Firefox 3.1 alpha (codename: Shiretoko) release which is built on Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine is now ready and can now be downloaded here.

The following release has those new features:
Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
Text API for the canvas element Continue Reading