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 carrier 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.
Firefox Multi Process Feature On Hold
Electrolysis, a codename for the upcoming Firefox feature that is set to separate user processes from the content process has been put on hold, according to Mozilla’s Lawrence Mandel.
While there is no mentioning of a specific timeline or any future date, according to Lawrence, multi process implementation requires a lot of time and resource investments, which is not exactly what Mozilla wants at this moment.
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Download Opera 11.60 Final
Here comes an early Christmas present for all the Opera users, as Norwegian browser maker has just released the final version of Opera 11.60 for you to download.
What’s new, you may ask? While it adds additional web standards support and fixes few bugs here and there, the most noticeable change in Opera 11.60 is a new mail reader, which is significantly improved when compared to previous versions of Opera.
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Internet Explorer: Disable Facebook News Ticker
Some time ago, we wrote on how to disable the Facebook news ticker in Google Chrome. Turns out, you can do that on IE9 as well.
Here is how:
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Firefox: How To Backup Firefox Profiles, Bookmarks, Passwords and Other Data
If you are reinstalling your OS or just want to migrate Firefox settings into another PC, here is a simple tutorial on how to speed up the process.
- Download FavBackup
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November, 2011: Google Chrome Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera – Down
With just one month left before the end of 2011, it’s time to check the latest stats for the browsers market share.
Falling below 50% last time, Internet Explorer is now down from 49.58% to 48.95% (0.63 point decrease).
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Download Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4
Works on Windows 8 only.
Continuing working on the next version of IE, software giant has recently released the fourth Internet Explorer platform preview.
In addition to various performance improvements and bug fixes, IE10 also includes hardware acceleration support for SVG, CSS3 transforms and animations, according to Microsoft,
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Backup Your Browser Data: FavBackup 2.1.2 Released
Good news, we have just released a new version of FavBackup for you to play with. No major changes, just additional web browser versions support.
Changelog
- Added Google Chrome 16 Support
- Added Firefox 7 and Firefox 8 Support
- Added Opera 11.60 Support
Google Chrome To Support Gamepads, Google “Console” On The Way?
With the growing popularity of HTML5 games and applications, it looks like Google has a vision of its own.
According to the EDGE, during the Develop Liverpool conference in London, Google’s developer Paul Kinlan has announced that Google Chrome will receive gamepad support tin the first quarter of 2012. In addition to that, it will feature a support for cameras and microphones that don’t have to be plugged in.
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Avant Browser To Use 4 Rendering Engines
It looks like web browsers with dual or triple rendering engines are becoming more and more popular (thanks to Maxthon and Lunascape).
Earlier this month, the Avant team has a released a dual engine web browser, which as it turns out, wasn’t good enough.
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Google Chrome: Now With Ads!
In the world where most people block ads and want to get everything for free, Google has decided to try a different approach: in-browser advertising.
Technology blog Ghacks has found an interesting screenshot in the Google’s Plus group, which shows and ad in the Google Chrome web browser, which says: “Get a Chromebook for the holidays: the computer powered by Chrome.“
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