With the recent release of Safari 4 beta, Apple launched a large marketing campaign on it’s website.
Turns out, many of the facts are in fact, not fact.
Users over at the Opera forums have dissected several facts, with sources proving Apple has got it wrong.
You can read the full list of incorrect facts over at the Opera forums.
OmniWeb, a Mac only browser is now free. The web browser, with a market share of less than 1% still has a very strong and loyal user base.
The browser includes features such as a built-in ad-blocker and can automatically save browsing sessions.
You can download the browser for Mac and find out more at the Omni Group website.
Google has joined the European Union (EU) case against Microsoft as a 3rd party.
“This is because Internet Explorer is tied to Microsoft’s dominant computer operating system, giving it an unfair advantage over other browsers. Compare this to the mobile market, where Microsoft cannot tie Internet Explorer to a dominant operating system, and its browser therefore has a much lower usage” explains Google’s Sundar Pichai.
The case against Microsoft is good, and will take many months to be heard.
Microsoft has released a new update for Windows 7 users for Internet Explorer 8.
The update – dubbed a compatibility and reliability update – addresses a few issues people were having. A list of fixes include:
The update will be pushed out to Windows 7 users via Automatic Updates or can be manually downloaded from Windows Update.
Apple has released Safari 4 beta to the public.
The release is incredibly impressive, with over 150 new features, including support for some HTML5 elements along with improvements in the rendering engine.
Safari 4 also scores an impressive 100/100 in Acid 3 which tests a browsers standards compatibility. Opera 10 alpha and Safari 4 beta are now the only two main web browsers to reach this feat.
Safari 4 includes a new JavaScript rendering engine called Nitro. It’s claimed to be 4 times faster than Firefox 3.1 and 6 times faster than Internet Explorer 8. Benchmark results should be out soon.
Users can download Safari 4 beta for both Windows and Mac today.
Internet Explorer 8 RTM
Microsoft has finished Internet Explorer 8, with the release to manufacturing (RTM) build expected to hit OEM’s, TechNet, MSDN and Connect in the next few days.
The scoop comes from Russian publication Wzor, with the final build being built on February 21st. This means that any remaining bugs and issues have been fixed.
The final build number is 8.0.6001.18691, with release date for the wider community not expected for a few more weeks.
Microsoft is yet to announce an official release date.
Trend Micro has warned that attackers are exploiting a new bug in Internet Explorer 7 which was patched by Microsoft last week.
The patch which was marked as critical was pushed out using Windows Update last Tuesday, but there are still millions of unpatched versions out there.
The exploit allows remote attakers the ability to install spyware on vulnerable systems.
Users and system administrators are urged to make sure they install all critical patches from Microsoft.
Rumors coming out of Tech ARP suggest that Internet Explorer 8 is headed our way in final two weeks of March.
Internet Explorer 8 will be a free download for existing Windows XP and Windows Vista users, while it is expected OEM partners such as Dell will include the browser pre- installed with new systems.
The date is still speculative, but we should have some more information by early March.
Apple has issued an update to its Safari browser for Windows users.
The browser, with version number 3.2.2, fixes an RSS vulnerability found in the browser mid January.
You can read the full details of the update in the support article. The update should be pushed out to Windows users, or users can download the update manually from the Safari website.
Ben Gooder from Google has revealed that the Linux version of Google Chrome will be using the Gtk+ developer libraries.
This is partly the cause of the delay with both Mac and Linux versions of Chrome, as using native GUI libraries for each version of Chrome requires a large amount of extra time.
Gooder explains “that using these frameworks also limits what you can do to a lowest common denominator subset of what’s supported by that framework on each platform”.
In the long run, this means that Chrome for Linux will look like Chrome for Linux, instead of having a foreign interface.
A release date for Google Chrome Linux is still to be announced.