Web browser news as it happens
In: Opera
25 Feb 2010Opera have released Opera 10.50 Beta 2 for Windows.
The new browser contains many significant improvements over Beta 1 according to Opera.
Changes include:
Skin work, and tweaked styling of internal pages (opera:* and error pages)
Improved opera:config
Improved overlay authentication dialogs to avoid spoofing
Context menu fixes
Basic Web Storage user interface
Lots of crash fixes
Widgets fixes
A full list of changes [...]
YouTube has announced that it is dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 on March 13. This comes just weeks after Google announced that it would start dropping support for the browser on Google services this year.
Internet Explorer 6 users are currently presented with a nice message urging them to upgrade to a newer browser.
“On March [...]
In: Chrome| Firefox| Internet Explorer| Opera| Safari
22 Feb 2010Microsoft has begun testing of its new browser ballot screen for European Union countries.
The ballot screen, which can be seen at http://www.browserchoice.eu/, lists the 5 major browsers in a random order, followed by 8 lesser known browsers also in a random order.
Early testing by DSL.sk shows the ballot screen might not be as random as [...]
In: Mobile Browsers| Safari
17 Feb 2010Adobe has come out saying that it is confident that Apple will eventually cave and allow Flash to make it onto the iPhone.
“Our goal is to provide a consistent runtime that spans devices, inclusive of [mobile and] desktop operating systems,” said Flash marketing director Adrian Ludwig at this weeks Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Adobe is [...]
In: Mobile Browsers| WebKit
17 Feb 2010Research In Motion (RIM) – the creators of the popular BlackBerry Phone – have announced at this weeks Mobile World Congress that they will release a WebKit based browser for its range of phones.
WebKit is the popular rendering engine found powering Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome browsers.
A demonstration of an early build on a BlackBerry [...]
In: Opera
15 Feb 2010Opera Software have released Opera 10.50 Beta 1 to the public, with a slew of stability and bug fixes since the first Alpha release.
New in Beta 1 is Aero Glass, Aero Peek, and Jumplists support for Windows 7 users, along with the new Opera Carakan JavaScript engine.
Early reviews and benchmarking shows Opera 10.50 is the [...]
In: Chrome
12 Feb 2010Google Chrome developers have pushed out new code to Mac beta users allowing them access to bookmark sync and browser extensions, just over a month after these features made it to the dev channel.
Chrome 5.0.307.7 brings many new features to Mac, and also included updates for Linux users.
Mac users now have access to these new [...]
In: Chrome| Firefox| Internet Explorer| Opera| Safari
12 Feb 2010Private browsing will now extend to the Flash plug-in with Flash Player 10.1 Adobe have announced.
“Integrating with your web browser, Flash Player 10.1 will automatically clear stored data in accordance with your browser’s private browsing settings” said Adobe Engineer Jimson Xu.
Flash Player 10.1 supports private browsing with Internet Explorer 8+, Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, and Google [...]
In: Opera
11 Feb 2010Opera Software plan to preview Opera Mini for iPhone at the 2010 Mobile World Congress.
“We are thrilled to offer journalists and partners an exclusive preview of Opera Mini for iPhone during the year’s biggest mobile event,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software.
“This is a unique opportunity to introduce the fast, feature-rich [...]
In: Firefox
8 Feb 2010Mozilla appears to have let it’s guard down, with a Firefox add-on that included a Trojan that could allow remote access to a users PC.
Two add-ons were affected; Master Filer which was infected with a password-stealing Trojan called Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Sothink Web Video Downloader which was infected with a backdoor Trojan called Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose.
Mozilla has issued [...]