Category: Microsoft
Firefox 5 and Hardware Accelerated Canvas for Mac OS, Linux, XP
Hardware acceleration is great if you are running Vista or Windows 7 machines. However, when it comes to XP or other operating systems, you won’t be able to experience the very best of it.
What’s the solution?
Joe Drew, the developer of Firefox web browser is considering writing a hardware accelerated backend to canvas, possibly in collaboration with other browser maker (you are welcome to join).
As he said:
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Unwanted Firefox Plug-Ins
Asa Dotzler, the Director of Community Development at Mozilla Corp. has raised a fair question:
Why do I have these plug-ins in Firefox? I don’t think I ever asked for any of them
There are quite a few plug-ins that make little to no sense, for example:
Why would Firefox ever need a Google or RockMelt Update? Furthermore, why is it okay to install all this malware for the big guys like Apple or Google?
P.S. They are enabled by default.
Control Your Web Browser with Kinect
Reveals endless possibilities.
Now here is something to add in your Christmas shopping list. Guys at MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group are working on a new way to enhance your web browsing experience.
By using Microsoft Kinect and DepthJS system, they managed to do something neat and that is: control a web browser with bare hands (no mouse required). What do I mean by that? Just check the video above.
Via Engadget.
Weekly Browsers Recap, November 15th
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• Download Firefox 4 Beta 7
Here comes the seventh beta release of Firefox 4 web browser.
• Firefox Celebrates 6th Birthday
With the upcoming Firefox 4 release, Mozilla has celebrated the…
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 1st
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• HTML5: Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Google Chrome 8 vs. Firefox 4 vs. Opera 11 vs. Safari 5
Today, we test five most popular web browsers to find out…
• Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s…
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Microsoft Releases IE9 Platform Preview 6
Today, at the Microsoft PDC 2010 conference, IE team has announced the availability of 6th Platform Preview build of Internet Explorer 9.
According to the benchmark results above, company has not yet given up on the browser performance wars and continues to march forward.
What else does it bring to the table?
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HTML5 Video Growth Explodes
Today, MeFeedia has released an interesting piece of information.
By using data from more than 33 000 different publishers, they revealed what appears to be a pretty significant growth of HTML5 playback.
According to report, numbers have doubled in the last 5 months and as of October 2010, 54% of H.264 videos are now available for playback in HTML5.
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Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s beloved (or hated) Browser Ballot screen had no drastic effect after all.
While comparing Europe/North America and worldwide market share numbers, Neowin has come up with a conclusion that there is only as little as 1% difference between global and Europe figures.
So here you have it, Internet Explorer “dominance” continues.
Weekly Browsers Recap, October 25th
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• Browsers Are Awesome!
See the video.
• So I Close Firefox After Watching Some Porn…
Not 100% browsers related, but hey, it has “Firefox” in the title, so here…
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Weekly Browsers Recap, October 18th
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• All the Way to Internet Explorer 13
It seems like Microsoft decided to increase its domain names portfolio, as company…
• New Firefox Trojan Spotted
It looks like a new Firefox Trojan is in the wild and none of the antivirus programs can…
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