Web Browsers News and Reviews

Opera Mini Strikes US Carrier Deals

Daniel Hendrycks — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:28:10 +0000

Jon von Tetzchner (Opera Software CEO) has confirmed that Opera Mini would soon be widespread in the US through a deal with Motricity, a mobile content delivery platform in partnership with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile.

According to the StatCounter, last month Opera Mini had 2.4% US mobile market share. These numbers are much higher outside the US. Jon von Tetzchner added: “I do believe things are about to change in the U.S.”.

Opera Refreshes “About” Page Looks, Adds New Icon

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:13:42 +0000

The upcoming Opera 10 Final release will feature a refreshed opera:about page which will replace gray and dull looking one.

Old

New

These tiny improvements are what make your web browser feel special.

Also, Daniel Hendrycks noticed a new icon in Opera/styles/images directory.

Google For Your PC (Video)

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:03:07 +0000

With all the buzz building around Google Chrome OS, Kevin Pereira discusses the fundamentals of this OS and how it can affect Apple as well as Microsoft.

Safari 4.0.2 Released

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:15:29 +0000

Apple has released the second update for Safari’s 4.0.x branch web browser which fixes 2 security vulnerabilities.

Update is available for Mac (Leopard, Tiger) and Windows operating systems.

Download Safari.

Chromium Receives Native Skins Support

Vygantas Lipskas — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:36:17 +0000

Ars Technica reports that Chromium web browser for Linux OS has received native themes support. Users will have an option to enable (or disable) the following feature in preferences dialog. It should be also noted that screenshots were taken using latest nightly build and this is not a final version yet.

For more screenshots, visit the original post.

Opera - So Fast, It Sings (Video)

Vygantas Lipskas — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:17:48 +0000

Just found this one. A very old video, from the year 2006. Still, doesn’t make any sense to me :-) What about you?

Weekly Browsers Recap, June 7th

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:19:23 +0000

Spread Firefox and Receive Prizes

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:46:40 +0000

What could be better than promoting your favorite browser and getting reward for that? New SpreadFirefox contest will be giving away iPod Touch, Flip Video Camera, iPod Nano and more, as it says:

“We have re-designed the Affiliates Reward program so that everyone with more than 5 downloads a quarter has an opportunity to be rewarded for their active membership.

We will offer ten rewards each quarter to ten individual Affiliates with incentives such as a Flip Video Camera, an iPod Touch, an iPod Nano, Amazon Gift Certificates and exclusive Top Fox T-shirts!”

So everything is quite simple. For more details, visit the contest page.

Microsoft’s Gazelle Browser: A Layperson’s Explanation

Vygantas Lipskas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:45:12 +0000

ZDNet Writes:

Microsoft Research has published a new article that explains in more layperson-like terms exactly what its “Gazelle” Web browser is and why the company’s researchers believe it’s needed.

Microsoft is slated to present a paper on Gazelle at the Usenix Security Symposium in August. At that event, the Gazelle team will describe “the design and construction of a browser that is actually a multi-principal operating system.”

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Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks for sending this.

What do LOLCats Sound Like (IE8 Ad)?

Vygantas Lipskas — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:02:18 +0000

I can has good IE8 ad?