Category: Safari
Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE and Safari to Windows Phone 7
Good news for Windows Phone 7 users.
The application called Chrome to WP7 can now not only send links from Google Chrome, but also Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Firefox, Opera and Safari web browsers.
A neat little app to save your time.
Points Increase for ask.FavBrowser.com
Just a minor update here, until the end of 2010, you will earn more activity points on the ask.favbrowser.com web site.
100 points for registration
10 points for asking a question
15 points for the best answer
3 points for selecting the best answer
3 points for answering a question
1 point for a daily visit
Don’t forget. You can redeem points for a bunch of cool prizes, so head over to ask.favbrowser.com and pick your Christmas gift right now.
Nov, 2010 – Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera – Down
All right, it’s the last month of 2010 and a good time to check the browser market share numbers from the previous month. Let’s begin, shall we?
While Microsoft is working on a new version of web browser, Internet Explorer continues to lose its market share, going down from 59.18% to 58.44% (0.74 point decrease).
With no Firefox 4 Final release this year, Mozilla’s browser continues the downtrend, spiking down from 22.83% to 22.76% (0.07 point decrease).
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Download Adobe Flash Player 10.2 Beta
Yesterday, Adobe has released a Beta version of Flash Player 10.2 bringing some nice enhancements, including: hardware acceleration support.
What’s New?
Stage Video hardware acceleration
A new method for video playback in Flash Player will allow developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration of the video rendering pipeline, enabling best-in-class playback performance. Stage Video can dramatically decrease processor usage and enables higher frame rates, reduced memory usage, and greater pixel fidelity and quality.
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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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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 29th
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• Internet Explorer on Mac
Oh no.
• Control Your Web Browser with Kinect
Reveals endless possibilities.
• Are You Serious?
A picture.
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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.
Download Safari 5.0.3
A couple of days ago, Apple released a new version of Safari 5 web browser that focuses on security, stability and usability improvements.
In addition, an update for Safari 4 was released as well (Safari 4.1.3).
Changelog
– More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
– More accurate results in Top Sites
– Fixes an issue that could cause content delivered with the Flash 10.1 plug-in to overlap webpage content
– More reliable pop-up blocking
– Improved stability when typing into search and text input fields on www.netflix.com and www.facebook.com
– Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
– Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari
Weekly Browsers Recap, November 22nd
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• Microsoft Caught Cheating in the Sunspider Benchmark
Oh boy, here we go again.
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 Released
Screams for more performance.
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