After numerous delays, Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 has finally been released.
The release fixes many outstanding issues from Beta 2, and improves features and performance such as private browsing and the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
The full details of the new beta are available in the release notes, while the new beta can be downloaded from Mozilla.
A new report coming out of Microsoft claims that Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is on average faster than both Google Chrome 1.0 and Firefox 3.0.5.
The report titled Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding issues in benchmarking and performance analyzes how various parts of the browser and their network components can impact on performance benchmarking.
Contradictory to all other tests, Microsoft claims that IE8 outperforms both Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0, so the results should be taken with a grain of salt.
Of interesting note, IE8 loads mozilla.com faster than Firefox while Firefox loads microsoft.com faster than IE8.
The full 14-page report is available from the Microsoft Download Center.
The 13th of March 2009 marks the World Wide Web’s 20th birthday, after Tim Berners-Lee created the very first version of HTML.
Berners-Lee’s idea envisioned researches being able click on links in documents to other relevant articles.
Surely the WWW is one of the greatest inventions of the last 20 years. You can read more about the WWW and Tim Berners-Lee.
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.7. The updated fixes several security and stability issues.
Firefox is also now available in 3 new languages; Estonian, Kannada, and Telugu.
The browser should be pushed out to existing Firefox 3 users or can be downloaded from the Firefox website. A full list of changes can be found in the Firfox 3.0.7 Release Notes.
New Windows 7 betas show that Internet Explorer 8 is an optional install, a move which should keep the EU and Opera happy.
To uninstall Internet Explorer from Windows 7 follow these steps:
Opera have today released Opera 9.64. The new version fixes many security issues, many of which would have been severe if exploited by attackers.
A full list of changes can be found in Opera’s Changelogs. The updated browser can be downloaded directly from Opera.
Results for Februrary are in and Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera are all winners for the month.
Februrary statistics from Net Applications shows that Internet Explorers share continued its decline, dropping 0.04% to 67.51%.
Firefox was a big winner, with a 0.2% increase to 21.73%, while Google Chrome increased its share by 0.03% to 1.15%.
Opera also had a good month increasing its share by 0.01% to 0.71%.
Apple’s Safari did not far so well, with the first decrease in months to 8.00%. That’s a 0.29% drop from last month.
The next month will be interesting, with the inimant release of Internet Explorer 8 expected this month and Apple’s Safari 4 beta being released just days ago.
Google Chrome may soon have full-screen mode. An avid user has spotted that the versions available from the Dev Channel now include full-screen support.
To enable full-screen in the development release of Chrome you just press F11, much like any other browser.
This much anticipated feature should make it’s way in to the public release of Google Chrome in the coming weeks.