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Weekly Browsers Recap, June 7th

By Vygantas | June 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

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• Microsoft Pushes Hard with Internet Explorer 9
It looks like Microsoft IE team tries to do its best to make you forget about Internet Explorer 6/7 mess.

• Internet Explorer 6 Market Share to Reach 10% in 2010
If we analyze Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 market share trend, the following conclusion can be made.

• Mozilla to Add Weave Sync for the Next Firefox Release
It appears that Mozilla has decided to integrate data synch feature into the upcoming major Firefox release.
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Google Chrome OS Launching this Fall

By Vygantas | June 3, 2010 | 2 Comments

Google Chrome OS Launching this Fall The long awaited Google Chrome OS will be make its debut later this year, Sundar Pichai, the head of the Chrome project confirmed yesterday at the Computex Taipei.

Pichai also noted:

Chrome OS is one of the few future operating systems for which there are already millions of applications that work…

You don’t need to redesign Gmail for it to work on Chrome. Facebook does not need to write a new app for Chrome.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, May 31st

By Vygantas | May 31, 2010 | 10 Comments

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• Windows Phone 7 to Feature Upgradeable Internet Explorer
With many mobile web browser choices floating around, Internet Explorer is certainly not one of them.

• Synchronize Between Firefox and iPhone with Firefox Home
Mozilla has recently announced an upcoming project that is “Firefox Home”.

• Google Releases Chrome 5 Stable
Few days ago, Google has released the final version of Google Chrome 5 web browser, tagged as version 5.0.375.55, for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Continue Reading

Internet Explorer 9 to Support VP8

By Vygantas | May 19, 2010 | 20 Comments

Internet Explorer 9 to Support VP8 Earlier today, Google has announced a developer preview of WebM, which is essentially an open source media format, designed for World Wide Web, that uses VP8 codec.

In response to such announcement, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer General Manager, Dean Hachamovitch said: “In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows” … “We want to be clear about our intent to support the same markup in the open and interoperable web, and to do so in a manner consistent with our view broad view of safety and security”

The WebM is already supported by 40+ companies, such as: Mozilla, Opera, Google, Logitech and many more.

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Chrome to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu?

By Vygantas | May 18, 2010 | 21 Comments

Chrome to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu? If UberGizmo rumor is true, Canonical, a company behind Ubuntu is planning to ditch Firefox web browser in favor of Google Chrome (or Chromium).

In fact, Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 should be the very first version to do that.

How this version differs from the desktop release? It has a new interface, designed for restricted size machines that features a single menu bar design (more about it here).

It’s still unclear, whether same changes are planned for desktop version or not.

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Acer Bursts Chrome OS Device Bubble

By Vygantas | May 18, 2010 | 0 Comments

Acer Bursts Chrome OS Device Bubble Last week, rumors were floating around about the upcoming Acer announcement at Computex regarding Chrome OS device.

Unfortunately, company has issued a press release stating that company has no “short-term plans for such a product”.

However, such device is still plausible in the future, as Acer said: “Acer believes that Google Chrome OS is without doubt an exciting product announcement and deserves it’s full attention as well as an in-depth study of its potential from a consumers perspective.”

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Google Chrome 6 Dev Is Here

By Vygantas | May 16, 2010 | 30 Comments

Google Chrome 6 Beta Is Here Here we go again. The sixth version of Google Chrome, labeled 6.0.401.1, has been just released and can be found at dev channel.

Just like with some previous “major” releases, it has neither significant improvements nor any under the hood changes.

Changelog:
– Don’t prepend scheme on copying an incomplete hostname. (Issue 43585)
– Much better display/eliding of RTL and mixed-direction strings in the omnibox dropdown. (Issue 41716)

Download.

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Acer Chrome OS Devices are Coming

By Vygantas | May 14, 2010 | 3 Comments

Acer Chrome OS Devices are Coming It appears that Acer is planning to launch Chrome OS devices at the Computex Taipei show, which is set to take place from June 1st to June 5th.

As Chrome OS was originally designed for Netbooks, we expect a Netbook of some kind. Although Google said many times that OS can run fine on other devices with ARM processors, such as Smartbooks, Tablets, etc.

Currently, Chrome OS is scheduled for 2010 Q2 launch which pairs fine with the upcoming Acer announcement.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, May 10th

By Vygantas | May 10, 2010 | 1 Comment

Thanks to mabdul and RamaSubbu SK for links.

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How to Remove New Google Search Sidebar?

By Vygantas | May 7, 2010 | 4 Comments

How to Remove New Google Search Sidebar? If you are not a big fan of new Google Search sidebar (which was introduced recently), here are few simple scripts for Firefox and Google Chrome users to remove it.