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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.

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Opera 12 To Bring Ragnarök, GPU Accelerated Graphics

By Vygantas | October 7, 2011 | 57 Comments

Opera 12 Brings Ragnarök, GPU Accelerated Graphics Download pre-alpha now.

The latest weekly build of Opera 12 web browser has few significant changes that are worth mentioning.

First of all, it now includes Ragnarök, Opera’s HTML5 parser engine (you can read more about it here), secondly, improved CSS3 gradient support and lastly, support for CSS3 radial gradients.

There is one more thing that is not yet mentioned. Remember when we said that opera:gpu shows a blank screen page? It now brings the following (when running on Windows 7 with ATI Radeon HD 5670 (DirectX 11) graphics card):
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Is This Opera Mini? No, Chuck Testa

By Vygantas | October 6, 2011 | 6 Comments

Is This Opera Mini? No, Chuck Testa According to the latest TrendMicro report, malware creators have found a new toy to play with: Opera Mini.

A Russian web site that loads for mobile users only and looks similar to the Opera.com home page now offers a piece of malware, disguised as OperaMini.jar

Upon visit, a user is notified about the new update that should be downloaded, which, when installed, will start sending text messages to premium numbers.
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Ask Maxthon Team Anything

By Vygantas | October 6, 2011 | 19 Comments

Ask Maxthon Team Anything Good news,

We will be interviewing the Maxthon web browser team shortly and would like to hear some of the feedback from our readers.

So, post your (respectful) questions in the comments section below and the ones with most likes will be sent for the Maxthon folks to answer.

Update: Questions have been sent, thank you for participating!

Google Opens A Chrome Store

By Vygantas | October 4, 2011 | 2 Comments

Google Opens A Chrome Store

If you are in London and got some time to waste, check the very first retail store from the search giant itself.

Dubbed “The Chrome Zone”, Google hopes to help users understand the concept of a cloud based computing and push some Chromebooks, such as Samsung’s Series 5 along the way.
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Play Mozilla’s 3D Browser Game: RescueFox

By Vygantas | October 4, 2011 | 6 Comments

RescueFox

Fully compatible with Firefox only.

If you are keen on trying Gladius, Mozilla’s 3D browser engine, then today is that day.

In the official blog announcement, an open source organization has revealed its ambition to push the 3D gaming into the web, and that’s exactly what latest project of Mozilla (codenamed Paladin) does.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, October 3rd

By Vygantas | October 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

[Thanks, Ichan, RamaSubbu SK, Shane Bundy]

Opera Prepares For The Hardware Accelerated WebGL Release

By Vygantas | October 3, 2011 | 23 Comments

WebGL: iOS RAGE

A long time ago, Opera has released an experimental browser build that supports everyone’s loved hardware acceleration.

However, ever since then, there was little to no talk regarding estimated release date of the public build.
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Download Firefox 8 Beta

By Vygantas | October 2, 2011 | 5 Comments

Download Firefox 8 Beta Includes Twitter search and more.

Despite the last week’s Firefox 7 Final announcement, Mozilla has been working hard and already finished the Firefox 8 Beta build for you to play with.

Although you might expect just some minor changes, don’t be fooled, it includes more than that:

- Twitter Search is now in the default search engines list.
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New Peacekeeper Beta Version Launches

By Vygantas | September 29, 2011 | 37 Comments

New Peacekeeper Beta Version Launches

Give it a go.

Good news for all you benchmark geeks, Futuremark, the world’s leading benchmark maker, has released a new version of its highly popular web browsers testing tool for you to play with.

Peacekeeper 2 implements the latest HTML5 standards and features and was designed to work with web browsers running on any operating system and pretty much on every device (including tablets and smartphones).
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