Web browser news as it happens
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: Opera
23 Dec 2009On que, Opera have released Opera 10.50 pre-alpha to the public.
So far, the browser is showing a lot of promise, with the new Carakan JavaScrpt engine being over 7 times faster than Opera 10.
Also new in this release is the Presto 2.5 rendering engine, with greater support for HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
New graphics accelerated rendering [...]
In: Browser Watch
1 Oct 2009Google has pushed out a new Chrome release to the stable, taking Chrome 3 to version 3.0.195.24.
The update fixes one security hole in the V8 JavaScript engine which is rated as high severity and could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the Google Chrome sandbox.
As usual, the browser will be pushed out to [...]
In: Safari
9 Jun 2009At today’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced the immediate availability of Safari 4 final for both Mac and PC.
Safari 4 contains over 150 new features, including a screen reader, basic HTML5 support, and a much improved JavaScript engine. A full list of new features can be found online.
The latest release is now the [...]
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)
The WebKit development team has just passed another huge milestone. The WebKit browser engine used in Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome now fully passes the Acid3 test.
The Acid3 test checks how well browsers comply with the latest standards, in particular JavaScript and the Document Object Model (DOM).
Maciej Stachowiak of the WebKit team attributes this feat [...]
In: Safari
18 Sep 2008Google has just released a new version of their Gears project which now has support for OS X and Safari.
Google Gears “is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser“.
With Gears, web applications can naturally interact with [...]
In: Browser Watch| Chrome| Firefox| Internet Explorer| Safari
4 Sep 2008With the release of Google Chrome, John Resig has performed JavaScript benchmark tests on a wide variety of browsers on both Windows Vista and XP. These browsers include:
Chrome 0.2
Safari 4
Safari 3.1.2
Opera 9.5.2
Firefox 3.1
Firefox 3.0.1
IE7
IE8 Beta 2
Testing, using three benchmarking tools; SunSpider, V8 Benchmark, and Dromaeo, has produced some interesting results. Results show that Google Chrome [...]