Download Firefox 8 Beta

By | October 2, 2011 | 5 Comments

Download Firefox 8 BetaIncludes Twitter search and more.

Despite the last week’s Firefox 7 Final announcement, Mozilla has been working hard and already finished the Firefox 8 Beta build for you to play with.

Although you might expect just some minor changes, don’t be fooled, it includes more than that:

– Twitter Search is now in the default search engines list.
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Chrome To Take Second Place From Firefox Soon

By | September 29, 2011 | 35 Comments

Data provided by StatCounter, a company that tracks browser usage using the free analytics tools it offers websites, shows that Chrome will pass Firefox to take second place right behind Internet Explorer (IE) no later than December.
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Firefox Extensions Won’t Download

By | September 29, 2011 | 7 Comments

Ain’t I lucky? I decided to do an absolutely fresh installation of Firefox 7 and would obviously have to reinstall my extensions and skins. The thing is, none of the extensions will download. This is making me sad, as Firefox has got some excellent extensions. Let’s hope that Mozilla fixes the issue soon as it has been several hours now. Click the image to witness my misery!

Update: Check Wicket’s link below for further clarification. Thanks, Wicket.

New Peacekeeper Beta Version Launches

By | September 29, 2011 | 37 Comments

New Peacekeeper Beta Version Launches

Give it a go.

Good news for all you benchmark geeks, Futuremark, the world’s leading benchmark maker, has released a new version of its highly popular web browsers testing tool for you to play with.

Peacekeeper 2 implements the latest HTML5 standards and features and was designed to work with web browsers running on any operating system and pretty much on every device (including tablets and smartphones).
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Amazon’s New Silk Redefines Browser Tech

By | September 29, 2011 | 11 Comments

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet recently launched in New York. What’s more interesting to us is that the company also showed off a bit of potentially radical software technology as well, namely the new browser for the Fire, called Silk.
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Download Google Chrome 15 Beta

By | September 28, 2011 | 3 Comments

Download Google Chrome 15 BetaIncludes updated “New Tab” page.

As reported earlier by FavBrowser, the latest Google Chrome 15 Beta release now includes an updated tab page, featuring the following categories:

Most Visited
Apps
Bookmarks
Recently Closed
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Download Firefox 7 Final

By | September 27, 2011 | 32 Comments

Download Firefox 7 FinalAfter several Beta builds, Mozilla has announced everyone’s anticipated, Firefox 7.0 Final release.

To address recent (and not so) complaints, Firefox 7 has drastically reduced its memory usage and fixed several stability issues. In addition to that, Mozilla’s open source web browser also includes a few new features:
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Google Chrome: The Johnny Cash Project

By | September 27, 2011 | 2 Comments

Makes web a beautiful place.

Google Chrome has recently unveiled a recent project of their own, called “Johnny Cash Project”.

What is it all about? The search giant has asked Johnny Cash fans from all over the world to come together and create a memorial music video for his last recording.

The final result is amazing and can be viewed in the following page.

RockMelt Beta 4 Coming Soon, New Reading Experience

By | September 26, 2011 | 6 Comments

RockMelt Beta 4 is to be released sometime in the next few weeks and will bring with it several new features, one of which being called Social Reading.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 26th

By | September 26, 2011 | 4 Comments

Weekly Browsers Recap, September 26th

[Thanks, Mikah]