Category: Web Browsers
Opera Buys 2 Additional Ad Networks
Back in January of 2010, Opera Software has acquired“AdMarvel”, a mobile advertising startup valued at around $8 million.
Fast forward to this year and it looks like Opera has decided to expand its mobile advertising portfolio by buying two additional mobile ad networks.
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Maxthon 3, Now With Crapware
At least it’s not a malware.
You know that time when you’ve slept with a gorgeous woman only in the morning to find out that she is actually a man? Neither do I.
Anyway, upon trying the Maxthon 3.3.4.2000 Final, which has recently been released, there was a suspicious checkbox that, for the entertainment purposes alone, I’ve left unchanged; it said something along the lines of:
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Brand Thunder Buys Its Rival
Brand Thunder, a free theme creator for various web browsers, has announced an acquisition of its competitor’s, BrowserNation, Firefox clients, according to a press report.
Although no pricing details were revealed, it looks like their brand client base that currently sits at 200 will be boosted by 25% or 50.
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Download Sleipnir 3, A Full Screen Web Browser
Available for Windows and Mac.
In a world of bleak new web browsers, here is something slightly different: a web browser that focuses on a full screen experience.
Initially launched back in 2004, Sleipnir appears to be quite popular among Japanese, or at least was, according to few reports it had 6% market share in 2006 and 9% in 2008.
In addition to that, it’s included in the browser ballot screen and even works with Windows 98.
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Google’s Chrome Market Share Declines For The First Time, Firefox’s Drops Below 20%
New Year brings big changes.
It’s February already as we look at the January’s browsers marker share numbers. As it turns out, there were few substantial differences for major vendors.
For the first time since eternity, Internet Explorer has actually increased its share from 47.76% to 48.16% (0.4 point jump). Is IE cool again?
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Firefox To Ditch C++ In Favor Of Rust
If everything goes according to the plan, Rust, Mozilla’s experimental programming language that has been in development since 2006, could slowly replace C++, which is currently used by the open source organization.
Just like Google’s Go programming language, Rust syntax is similar to that of C and C++ and destined to provide memory safety, greater security and good concurrency support.
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HTML5 Game: Skid Racer 3D
When most of the popular sites are down due to SOPA boycott, here is another HTML5 game for you to try.
SKiD Racer, a WebGL based 3D racing game, not only provides entertainment value but also demonstrates what’s possible with the web browsers technology, that require no additional plug-ins nor any configuration. How good is it? See the video above.
So, in case you are up for a challenge, head over to the Google Chrome Store and check it out.
[Thanks, Shane Bundy]
Google Chrome 16 vs. Firefox 9 vs. Internet Explorer 9 vs. Opera 11.60 vs. Safari 5.1
With the Firefox 10, Opera 12 and Internet Explorer 10 releases just around the corner, guys from TomsHardware have decided to test the latest stable builds of the top 5 web browsers on both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion.
How did your favorite web browser perform? Let’s find out.
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Download Waterfox 9.0: A Better Version Of Firefox 64 Bit
Even though there are “unofficial” 64 bit versions of Firefox floating around the Internet, none of them have gained any significant attention from the general user base.
Thanks to Waterfox, a highly optimized version of Firefox specifically designed for the Windows x86-64 users, this 64 bit flavor might gain some momentum.
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December, 2011: Google Chrome, Opera, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox – Down
Happy New Year!
It’s that time of the month again when we look at the market share results for the last month. How your favorite browser did finish the 2011 race? Let’s find out.
Already broken through the 50% barrier, Internet Explorer share continues the downtrend, this time it has decreased by 1.19 point, from 48.95% to 47.76%.
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