Web browser news as it happens
In: Chrome
31 Mar 2009Ars Technica has posted a great review of the current state of Chrome for Mac. Included are two videos showing how far Chromium has come in just the last few months.
Karen Grünberg said “we’re working as fast as possible and progressing as fast as we can without compromising security” and suggested that we might see [...]
In: Firefox
30 Mar 2009Mozilla over the weekend has released Firefox 3.0.8. The new release fixes two critical security vulnerabilities.
The browser should automatically be sent out to existing Firefox 3 users or can be downloaded from the Firefox website.
More details regarding the security vulnerabilities can be found in the release notes.
In: Firefox
26 Mar 2009Mozilla is on a role. It wants you to be able to browse and play the web in 3D.
Teaming up with Khronos, the developers of OpenGL, the group aims to create an open standard for 3D acceleration on the web.
“Accelerated 3D graphics with the super-fast next-generation JavaScript engines from nearly every Web browser vendor means [...]
In: Chrome
26 Mar 2009LinuxHaxor has discovered that early-pre-alpha builds of Chromium, which Google Chrome is based off, is 4 times faster than current stable builds of Firefox on Linux.
The test was run with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark tool.
While these results are impressive, LinuxHaxor mentions that current Google Chrome Windows builds are still 2 times faster than early Chromium [...]
Here are a few articles that may be of interest – yet don’t all deserve their own post:
Can IE8 Really Tempt You Back To Microsoft? (PC World)
How JavaScript became a browser war battle-ground (ZDNet UK)
Is the geek love affair with Firefox waning? (ZDNet)
Firefox proves a hit with web enthusiasts (VNUNet.com)
Rumors have been circulating that the next version of Internet Explorer could possibly use Apple’s open source WebKit rendering engine.
It appears, as expected, that these rumors were indeed false.
Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer put to rest any speculation that IE9 would use WebKit. He also told Ars Technica that IE8 would not be [...]
Internet Explorer 8 may have just been released in 25 languages in Microsoft’s Download Center, but other languages and availability through Windows Update and Automatic Updates will be coming soon.
The release will be in 3 waves as follows:
Wave 0 – Languages
Arabic, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), Finnish, French, German, [...]
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) final to the web today, and it is currently available in 25 languages.
IE8 is a giant leap over IE7 and includes a new powerful rendering engine. Other features include the addition of accelerators, which let you easily find information such as maps, and compatibility view which helps display [...]
In: Firefox
19 Mar 2009The mobile version of Firefox, Fennec has now hit it’s first beta. It currently only works on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, but it also installs on computers for the aid of developers.
There have been many improvements since it’s early public alpha release, including TraceMonkey, Mozilla’s new JavaScript powerhouse.
This release also includes the Smart URL [...]
In: Chrome
18 Mar 2009Good news everyone! Google Chrome is getting faster. The Google Chrome Blog has details of the new beta, which suggest that the next version of Chrome is up to 35% faster.
The benchmarks used include Google own V8 benchmark, where the browser was an 25% faster, and the Sunspider benchmark which achieved a result 35% faster [...]