Tag: WEBBROWSER

Mobile browsers have come a long way in the past few years. The days of stripped down WAP pages that make the web look like it did in 1994 are all but gone. Now you can use an iPhone, Android handset, or Windows Mobile device to view full web pages much the same way you would use a desktop browser. Sure, some content (most noticeable Adobe Flash) is hit or miss. But for the most part, mobile ...

Skyfire is a mobile web browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones. The browser is one of the fastest around, and one of the only mobile browsers around that can handle Flash and Silverlight content. That's because Skyfire uses a secret weapon: the browser doesn't have to do all of the page rendering. Instead, Skyfire compresses web pages on its server and delivers them to your mobile ...

In amongst a chorus of "what took them so long", the Google folks working on the Chromium project -- the open source project behind the Chrome browser -- have at last added basic support for bookmark management in Mac OS X builds. Now, before you run over to the nightly builds page for Chromium, it's worth noting that the feature is still incomplete - you're not able to remove items from the ...

The Firefox army is hundreds of millions of soldiers strong. After successfully taking the southernmost continent on the globe, the Mozilla Militia continues to run full speed ahead across Europe. Today's battlefront: the central region. As you can see in the header image, Firefox and IE recently crossed paths. The chart shows data gathered from nine countries - Czech Republic, Bulgaria, ...

Tireless patent troll Intellectual Property holder Eolas has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against, well.. nearly everyone. The issue at hand deals with two patents in Eolas' possession -- the first of which was the subject of a successful lawsuit against Microsoft back in 2004. The second patent, what Eolas refers to as "a continuation of the '906 ...

Those of you who are tired of reading about all the great features Google has been packing into Chrome's beta and developer channel builds, it's time to break out the Guinness. A fortnight after Google Chrome's first birthday, Google has bumped the stable version to 3.0.195.21. So what does that mean, exactly? The stable version now includes features like the updated new tab page, improved ...

There's been more than enough hullabaloo about Google Chrome lately. Hell, Michael Arrington even thinks it's a "Microsoft Killer" and is "nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Oh wow. If Chrome is so great, then how is it that K-Meleon beats the pants off it in all my testing? Even as I compose this post in Blogsmith I notice the ...

It has been a defacto standard for Web Browsers to be a free download for many years now. After all, who would want to pay for something that they can get for free so easily? Well, this is a question that Electrasoft must answer on a daily basis. A company that specializes in Web browsers, network utilities, and 90's era web design, they are among a dying breed for sure. We couldn't resist taking ...

Camino 1.6 is now out in the wild, and it looks to be the release a lot of people were waiting for. With many new features as well as many updated features, Camino 1.6 is an excellent and compelling alternative to Safari and Firefox on the Mac. New to Camino 1.6: Toolbar Search Improvements: The toolbar search in Camino can now be edited and customized, with the ability to delete, rename, and ...

Browsershots is a free web service for viewing a website in about 50 web browsers among 4 operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD). This is helpful for checking your web design on multiple configurations without having to use virtual machines or extra hardware and software. You just enter your URL, check the browsers you want to see, choose extra output options like screen width, color ...

The first public alpha of Opera 9.5 is due out tomorrow. Opera might not get as much attention as Internet Explorer or Firefox, but the company deserves a lot of credit for innovation in the web browser market. Opera Mini and Opera Mobile offer blazing fast page rendering on mobile phones and PDAs. And the Opera browser for the Nintendo Wii makes web browsing on a standard television set ...

Now that we've shown you how to test out Mozilla's latest nightly builds of Firefox without destroying all of your current settings, you can safely check out the just-released Firefox 3 Alpha 7 release. Most of the changes include bug fixes and under the hood tweaks. But here are a few things you might notice: The location bar autocomplete menu shows favicons for previously entered ...

Just two weeks after Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.5, the corporation has pushed out another critical security update. Firefox 2.0.0.6 fixes two vulnerabilities. The problem is that Firefox "did not percent-encode spaces and double-quotes in URIs handed off to external programs." Essentially that means that hackers could create web sites that would launch arbitrary code on your computers when ...

Firefox and Internet Explorer get most of the attention, but they're not the only web browsers out there. There's also Safari, Opera, and Konqueror. But if you want to try a web browser that is guaranteed to work with every page designed for Internet Explorer without actually you know, using Internet Explorer, you might want to check out Maxthon. Maxthon is based on Internet Explorer, so it uses ...

Ryan from Cybernet tagged us, so now we have to come up with 5 suggestions for improving the Opera web browser. There are a lot of things to love about Opera. The company makes one of the finest mobile web browsers around. And the desktop version renders pages quickly and has a great fit-to-screen feature. But there are some web pages that still don't work properly in Firefox. In no particular ...