News: Firefox 3.6.3 Lorentz Runs Plugins In Separate Processes

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome are doing it, so why should not the Firefox web browser? Running plugins in separate processes adds much to a web browser’s stability as a crash in a plugin could, and usually would, result in a browser crash as well if everything was handled under one process. With out-of-process plugins on the other hand the only damage that is done is to the plugin’s process which gets restarted, the rest of the browser is not taken down with that plugin crash anymore. Continue Reading »

Browser: Firefox 3.6.4 (Lorentz) beta is coming tomorrow!

According to the latest Mozilla Platform meeting minutes, Firefox 3.6.4 beta will be available tomorrow for general testing.

In recent days, the Firefox 3.6 branch became Lorentz, the code name for the first Firefox release to feature out of process plugins, which aims to improve overall stability by running plugins like Adobe Flash, Silverlight, and Java in their own independent process. Continue Reading »

Browser: Opera Will Be The threat of Safari on the iPhone

Opera fulfill his promise to introduce a special browsers running on the iPhone in the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in 2010. Not just showing off, Opera also claimed that his engine faster browser than Safari.

In a demonstrainya, Opera shows that Opera Mini can support each other with the Apple iPhone. Even the ‘arrogant’, Opera claims that its products are six times faster than Apple’s own browser besutan, namely Safari. Continue Reading »

News: Safari 'Pressured' Chrome

Although still classified as ‘born yesterday’, Chrome managed to provide enough pressure on the Safari browser on the segment.

The reason Google’s browser Safari stalking position, especially in fighting over the last four of the world. From the data released Net Application, chase each other’s rank also occurred in the level of up to down. Because according to the agency, the competition between the browser just tighter. Continue Reading »

Release: Firefox 3.6 RC1 Released!

Some websites reported already yesterday that the first release candidate of Firefox 3.6 has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp server. This was actually not the case as they linked to a nightly build and not the final release candidate build. Having said that it is likely that the two versions are identical. Firefox 3.6 RC1 is currently being uploaded to ftp mirror sites worldwide to ensure a fluent distribution once the automatic update check in the web browser recognizes the web browser update. Continue Reading »

Release: Firefox 3.5.7 Released!

The Mozilla developers have released the final version of Firefox 3.5.7. The latest version of the popular web browser is currently transferred to mirror servers worldwide to ensure another error and lag free updating experience for Firefox users who will begin to update their web browser shortly after the official announcement of the release has been made.

It is expected that the announcement will be made later today and that Firefox 3.5.6 browsers will pick up the new version release and prompt their users to upgrade the browser. Continue Reading »

News: 16 Month Launched, Chrome Able Skip Safari

Google Chrome only takes approximately 16 months to go beyond Apple’s Safari, the browser market. Net Application data show Chrome is in third with approximately 4.63 percent over browser market, while Safari slumped to fourth position with 4.46 percent.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox still dominates the browser market. However, shrinking the number of users continue to hit the Internet Explorer (IE). Until December 2009, IE controlled approximately 62.9 percent. Continue Reading »

Release: Firefox for Maemo RC1 Released!

Mozilla is starting the year in great shape releasing the first release candidate of Firefox mobile for Maemo devices like Nokia Internet tablet devices, just hours before 2009 came to an end.

Feature wise, it is Firefox. You get the awesome bar, a download manager where you can pause and resume downloads, one touch bookmarking and tagging, tabbed browsing, the site button for quick security checks, popup blocker, a password manager, the same rendering engine (HTML5, native Theora video, embedded fonts), spell checker, etc. Continue Reading »

Release: Opera Said Happy New Year with Release Opera 10.50 Pre-Alpha

While everyone else in the world has been partying all night the Opera desktop team developers have decided to add a little bit of work to that partying. They are the first to release a new web browser version in the new year. The new build of their upcoming Opera 10.50 web browser is still a pre-alpha build. The two most notable changes to the last public release of Opera 10.50 pre-alpha are the support of the HTML 5 video element and stability fixes.

The Unix version of Opera 10.50 has undergone some changes as well, most notable the removed dependency on the QT libraries which caused a problem for users who wanted to install the browser but did not have the libraries installed. Continue Reading »

Browser: SRWare Iron 4 RC Released!

SRWare Iron is a web browser that is based on the Chromium source code that is also powering the Google Chrome web browser. The main difference between Iron and Google Chrome is that the developers of Iron have removed privacy related issues from the code. This includes things like the unique client ID, error reporting or Google Updater which is a program that is automatically started with Windows. Iron basically follows the same development cycle as the Google Chrome web browser with version 4 currently in development. Continue Reading »