Today Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 9. It’s the first look we’ve had at Microsoft’s flagship browser since it first revealed details late last year.
The preview is bare-bones: after playing around with it, I can tell you that it doesn’t have much in terms of [...]
If you’re a user of Opera Mini, chances are you’ve already switched from Opera Mini 4.2 to Opera Mini 5, beta tag be damned. The new version brought many improvements (tabs and speed dial probably being the most important) that made its predecessor pale in comparison.
Same goes for Opera Mobile [...]
Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s nifty mobile browser.
This version is nearly identical to the Opera Mini 5 Beta for other handsets; biggest improvements are speed dial, tabbed browsing, [...]
Opera has revealed that its desktop browser downloads have tripled since the new “browser ballot” rolled out across Europe as part of Microsoft’s package to appease the EU over competition issues.
The browser ballot sees Microsoft make consumers that have PCs with Internet Explorer set as the default browser aware that [...]
The debate about web browser speed never ends. When it came out, Firefox was considered speedy, but then Opera and Google Chrome kept recapturing the “speediest browser” title, and the race hasn’t ended to this day. Still, Opera is the browser that has been focusing on speed the most, partly [...]
Since debuting in December, more than 2,000 extensions have been created for Google Chrome. Now, Chrome users have access to about 40,000 more, thanks to support for Greasemonkey scripts in Chrome 4.0 for Windows and the Chrome Developer builds for Mac and Linux.
We’ve covered Greasemonkey and the browser-awesome it can [...]
If you were hoping to get your hands on Firefox 3.6 before the end of the year, you’re out of luck. CNET did some digging and discovered that release dates for both Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 have been pushed farther into the future.
Originally, Firefox 3.6 (which is bringing some cool personalization and customization features via [...]
With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate. And one has to hand it to them: although it doesn’t have a huge user base in the desktop web browser space, Opera is always one step ahead of the rest, for better or for [...]
Opera just announced the release of Opera 10.10. This latest version of Opera’s desktop browser now includes Opera Unite, the company’s browser-based web server. With Unite, users can share photos, music, notes, websites, forums and calendars – but unlike standard web apps, these apps are hosted on the user’s computer. When Opera first talked about [...]
Both Firefox and Chrome have a new version out, fixing mostly stability issues and a couple of minor security vulnerabilities.
Firefox 3.5.5 brings several stability fixes, most importantly the notorious GIF decoder bug which sometimes caused the browser to crash. You can find a complete list of changes in this version here.
Chrome has a bit more [...]
