Firefox 3.1 to Receive a JavaScript Performance Upgrade (1)
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Guys from Mozilla Firefox team aren’t sleeping. Few days ago they’ve launched a JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey which will be ported in the upcoming Firefox 3.1 release. So to make it short: in some benchmarks, new engine is almost 40 times faster than the old one! Can you imagine that? Just take a look at those benchmarks: (more…)
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2 Released (1)
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As promised by Microsoft earlier, the 2nd beta of Internet Explorer 8 was released today. I really never thought to say that about IE, but it feels “OK” and assuming the fact that it’s only a Beta 2, it has a bit of potential to stop losing big pieces of market share every month. What’s new in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2? New Tab experience Here’s what you are going to see after new tab ...
Mozilla Firebug 1.2 Released (1)
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Good news from the web developers. Firebug 1.2 Final is now released and can be downloaded here. As you may find out from the changelog, there were plenty of changes made. What was changed? == Enablement UI == * Disable always: when the Firebug UI is not active on any page, the debugger is disabled (minimal overhead) * Instant on: when the Firebug UI is active, HTML, CSS, DOM views activate (minimal overhead) * Script ...
No Opera 10 yet, Introducing Opera 9.6 (1)
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I bet some of you were expecting to see Opera 10 first preview releases after Opera 9.5 was introduced. This won’t be happening any time soon because few days ago Opera Team introduced 1st snapshot of Opera 9.6. What’s new? As from “First 9.60 Snapshot!” post: Opera Link Custom search engines and typed history* are now joining bookmarks, speed dials, personal bar, and notes in Opera Link. (more…)
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and Private Browsing (1)
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Rumors are all over the net that the upcoming release of Microsoft’s next generation web browser IE will feature a private browsing feature (Mozilla Firefox decided to drop this one and haven’t or won’t include in Firefox 3.0/3.1). So what is this all about? Private browsing enables user to surf the web without leaving any “logs “about its activity. There will be no caching, cookies, history or neither the form data. Why would you need ...
Opera 9.52 Released (1)
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Opera Team today released an update for its Opera 9.5 series web browser which is 9.52. The following release fixes quite a lot of issues in the following areas: user interface, mail, news, chat, display and scripting, security and more. Changes since Opera 9.51 User Interface Added several improvements to the icons and skin Added a bookmark path to autocompleted bookmarks in the address bar to better distinguish them from visited pages Added a Help ...
15+ Tools to Turn Firefox 3 into a Social Hub (1)
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Do you like social sites but just don’t want to try Flock? Miss any it’s features in Firefox? Here’s a solution: Sean P. Aune published an article on how you can use 15+ tools to turn Firefox 3 into a social hub. Feel free to check it out.
How to Speed Up Firefox? (2)
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Here is a great tip from shashank on how to make Firefox 10 times faster. 1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries: 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” (more…)
50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Change the Way You Surf the Web (1)
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Out of the box, Firefox 3 is already an incredible web browser. But when you consider all of the power tools that can be added to it, it’s even better. Check out these add-ons for Firefox 3, and you’ll take your browser to the next level. By Jessica Merritt
Firefox 3 Download Problems? (1)
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Are you receiving an annoying “This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy” error? According to a quote from FirefoxFacts: Starting in Firefox 3, downloads of executable files (e.g., .exe or .msi) may fail and the Firefox Downloads window will contain this message, under the filename: This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy. (more…)
Change Opera Theme Color Scheme (1)
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Since there was a tip on changing Firefox 3 color scheme, this one is for Opera users. If you are using Opera 9.5 and don’t know this trick yet, you can easily change skin color scheme by following those steps: Tools > Appearance Find “Color Scheme” setting in the bottom and play with it.
Change Firefox Theme Color Scheme (1)
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Are you tired of your current Firefox skin? It’s so well made that you just don’t want to change it with any other one? How about a small modification? With Firefox add-on AnyColor 0.2.0 you can change Firefox 3 theme color scheme. As it says: A dynamic theme that lets you customize its appearance on the fly. Visit AnyColor 0.2.0 Add-on Page Via FirefoxFacts
How to Increase the Maximum Number of Tabs on Opera Mobile 9.5 (1)
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Haavard yet again posted a great tip. This one tells you how you can change the maximum opened tabs limit in Opera Mobile 9.5. As he writes: To increase the number of allowed tabs, go to opera:config, and set “Maximum Allowed Tabs” to the number of your choice (you may have to restart Opera). That’s it.
Internet Explorer Loses. Firefox, Safari and Opera Gains (June 08) (1)
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Yet another month passed by and it’s time to check how’s your favorite browser doing. On June, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 final versions were released. Did release increased those browsers market share? Let’s find out. Internet Explorer continues its tradition to lose market share. This time it decreased by 0.74%, from 73.75% to 73.01%. (more…)
From IE7 Team Ex-Employer: Firefox is Better (1)
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So there’s a guy who used to work on Microsoft Internet Explorer team. Although it’s not so easy to say that, he admits that Firefox 3 is better than IE7. After playing with Firefox 3, he says: When I use IE now, it feels slow and poorly put together. You may read his post here.
5 New Firefox Features That You Probably Didn’t Know About (1)
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Opera Dragonfly. An Interview with David Storey (1)
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CSS Dzone recently published an interview with David Storey from Opera Software. Feel free to check it. Storey was probably interviewed long time ago (although published on 2008/07/08 - 5:45pm) as one of the questions are: With the Opera browser being in it’s second beta cycle for the Kestrel release and Dragonfly only having entered Alpha, can we as developers expect a GA version of Dragonfly to accompany the GA release of Kestrel?
The 100 Best Products of 2008 (1)
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Few days ago PC World revealed its “The 100 Best Products of 2008” list. The social web browser Flock was voted in the highest position among any other web browsers. It took a solid 6th place. Mozilla Firefox 3 was in the 21st place followed by Apple Safari which was in the 22nd. Hulu (online video service) was voted as #1.
