Category: Google Chrome

Google Turbocharges JavaScript’s Performance

By | May 7, 2012 | 25 Comments

Google Turbocharges JavaScript's Performance

Google Chrome 19 and 20 users to benefit.

When it comes to performance, there is no such thing as “fast enough”, as a result, the search giant has decided to sprinkle some magic dust onto their JavaScript’s engine (V8) algorithm, which will now decide what functions should be optimized and give you a nice performance boost in return.
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Internet Explorer Crosses The 50% Market Share Mark, Again

By | May 1, 2012 | 25 Comments


Back in November, 2011, we have reported that the Internet Explorer web browser has fallen below the 50% market share mark.

Now, it looks like the software giant has something to celebrate as according to the latest numbers, it’s back at 50%, up from 49.82% (0.18 point increase).
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Opera, Firefox And Internet Explorer To Implement WebKit Prefixes

By | April 26, 2012 | 11 Comments

Developers to blame.

In an interesting turn of events, which we view as positive news for its users, Opera Software will soon be releasing an experimental build of Opera Mobile Emulator, which will use WebKit prefixes to combat ignorant web developers. In addition to that, since it will be integrated into Opera’s core, you can expect to see same prefixes across all Opera web browsers in the near future.
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Google Goes Mental: Increases Chrome Rewards To $20,000

By | April 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

Google Goes Mental: Increases Chrome Rewards To $20,000

If previous cash rewards were not enough to encourage you to start sniffing the code, then we have some good news.
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IE8 vs. Google Chrome 18 vs. Firefox 11 vs. Opera 11.6 vs. Safari 5.1

By | April 23, 2012 | 14 Comments

IE8 vs. Google Chrome 18 vs. Firefox 11 vs. Opera 11.6 vs. Safari 5.1

Windows XP edition.

Despite very positive Windows 7 reviews, it still remains the #2 operating system, right behind everyone’s beloved Windows XP. And although trend favors Windows 7, it does not mean that the XP users should be left behind. Since Internet Explorer 9 won’t run on this OS, guys at TomsHardware have decided to test IE8 against the top 4 web browsers.
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Google Chrome Beta For Android 4.0 Updated

By | April 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

Continuing battle across a variety of different fronts, the search giant has issued an update for its Google Chrome web browser.

Still available for the Android Ice Cream Sandwich users only, the following Beta release brings a couple of welcome changes, including:
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Maxthon, A New King Of HTML5

By | April 16, 2012 | 18 Comments

Maxthon 3.3

If you’ve ever thought that Maxthon is just a peace of UI on top of a rendering engine, then you were wrong.

Thanks to their continuous effort to drive web standards, Maxthon has been recently added to the HTML5Test and as you might have guessed from the title, they took the lead.
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Play AirMech In Your Web Browser

By | April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

By utilizing Google’s Chrome NaCl (Native Client) plugin, which allows web browser to execute C/C++ applications, guys at Carbon Games have created something rather unique, the action strategy game called AirMech.
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If Web Browsers Were Guns

By | April 11, 2012 | 20 Comments

For people who are allergic to Internet cats, here is another take: if web browsers were guns.
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If Web Browsers Were Cats

By | April 11, 2012 | 8 Comments

Surprisingly, with dozens of “if” takes around the blogosphere, no one has ever though about comparing web browsers to cats, up until now… Your dreams have finally come true, guys.
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