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10 Feb 2010 09:45

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Tech: Opera plays with fire, creates iPhone version of its Web browser

  • Well, this seems like a rejected app wait­ing to hap­pen. Opera, the cre­ators of a not-terrible also-ran Web browser, have cre­ated a ver­sion of the app for the iPhone which makes Web sites load really fast due to com­pres­sion tech­nol­ogy. Prob­lem is, Apple has noto­ri­ously blocked apps that dupli­cate the phone’s basic func­tion­al­ity. This oughta be fun to watch. source
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26 Jan 2010 09:34

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Tech: Microsoft kills one Internet Explorer bug just in time for another

  • When will peo­ple learn not to use IE ever again? Just days after a major secu­rity exploit finally got patched in Inter­net Explorer, another secu­rity flaw – this one a com­bi­na­tion hack which allows for con­trol of a user’s machine by using a series of exploits – was nailed by secu­rity com­pany Core Secu­rity Tech­nolo­gies. There has to be a point where Microsoft says “screw it, we’re just not sup­port­ing IE6 any­more, and we’re switch­ing our browser frame­work to WebKit,” yet they con­tinue to val­i­date its exis­tence to mil­lions of users who don’t ques­tion it. source
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03 Jan 2010 11:07

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Tech: Google Chrome now a bigger browsing force than Apple Safari

  • 4.63% use Google's Chrome, the new third-place browser, which was just released for the Mac last month
  • 4.46% use Apple's Safari, which is now the fourth-place web browser (but still doing well on phones) source
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06 Dec 2009 12:04

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Tech: Google Chrome’s new extensions look like they might just rule

Admit it, this was the one thing holding you back from using Chrome full-time. Well, here it is – extensions. The crowd goes wild. source
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15 Aug 2009 10:28

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Tech: Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s funding a new browser, RockMelt

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Ooh, mysterious. Details are scarce at the moment, but basically, the guy who was run out of dodge by Microsoft appears to be coming back with some new players. Since Netscape lost the plot, Andreessen has become one of Silicon Valley’s most respected venture capitalists. So even though this is just an e-mail box, we’re definitely really curious. source
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10 Aug 2009 23:50

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Tech: Microsoft: We want to get rid of Internet Explorer 6, but we can’t

  • The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product.
  • Dean Hachamovitch, the guy in charge of the Internet Explorer team • Describing the problems that Microsoft has with getting people to upgrade from that crappy browser they made almost a decade ago. “The choice to upgrade software on a PC belongs to the person responsible for the PC,” he notes, and says that many people responsible for PCs are organizations, not individual users. While developers will encourage IE users to upgrade, “We will also continue to respect their choice, because their browser is their choice.” • source
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08 Aug 2009 18:16

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Tech: Beyond Firefox, Safari and Chrome: Web browsers worth using

You’re a loner, Dottie, a rebel. As a result, you use a Web browser out of the mainstream. CNet checks them out. Their thought? It’s no contest. Opera wins. source
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27 Jul 2009 22:27

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Tech: Could the upcoming version of Firefox look like this?

The current trend is to put the tabs above the location bar. Safari does it. So does Chrome. Firefox is considering it for version 4. Should they? source
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30 Jun 2009 22:30

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Tech: Firefox 3.5 is out. Is it quality or junk? Ars Technica weighs in.

  • The Firefox 3.5 release builds on the browser’s existing strengths to offer a high-quality user experience with a lot of rich new functionality.
  • Ars Technica writer Ryan Paul • Explaining why Firefox 3.5 is a major step forward for not only the browser itself but the Web in general. Simply put, it doesn’t suck. Less simply put, it offers significant speed increases, private browsing, HTML 5 video standards, drop shadows, interface upgrades and other awesome stuff. But you STILL can’t drag JPG files into Photoshop without a big error box coming up. What the heck, Mozilla? That’s a big problem. • source
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16 Jun 2009 12:22

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Tech: Opera’s world-changing thing, Unite, might actually change the world

Much credit to Opera: Unite actually sounds like a brilliant idea and might get them elusive market share. source
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