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News Bits: Chrome gets more incognito and the Pre loves the clouds

by Iyaz Akhtar on Apr 14, 2009 at 06:59 PM

Google Chrome just got a bump.  The beta version of the Google’s web browser is now version 2.0.172.5.  The upgrade is supposed to help with stability and fixes issues with form submissions.  Most importantly, Incognito mode works a little better.  Previous to this update, if you visited a site even… Continue Reading »

Forget waiting for downloads: Check out the SkipScreen Firefox add-on

by Iyaz Akhtar on Apr 3, 2009 at 02:12 PM

Sharing files on the web has become easier and easier.  There are plenty of websites that let you upload files.  However, one of the trade offs is when your buddy wants to download that file, they may have to wait through a forced waiting period so a site like Zshare… Continue Reading »

Firefox Mobile on Windows Mobile screenshots

by Cheng Hung on Oct 13, 2008 at 07:15 AM

Firefox Mobile, also known as Fennec, may become available for public download by the end of the year in the form of an alpha release.  Early screenshots of Fennec have surfaced at the::unwired. The screenshots show how Fennec looks like when running on a Windows Mobile Professional touchscreen smartphone.  I… Continue Reading »

Crossover Chromium brings Google Chrome to Mac/Linux

by Shawn Ingram on Sep 16, 2008 at 06:13 PM

Codeweavers, the company behind the commercial aspect of the WINE project, has released a Mac and Linux version of Google Chrome after only two weeks since the debut of the Windows version.  It isn’t a “real” release by any means.  The company even refers to it as a “proof-of-concept” and… Continue Reading »

Firefox gets 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours

by Arnold Zafra on Jun 19, 2008 at 08:47 AM

Now that officially a day has passed since Firefox 3 became available for web download, it would be interesting to know whether it achieved its goal of setting a Guinness record for software download in 24 hours. With 8.3 million registered downloads in the last 24-hours, it looks like Firefox… Continue Reading »

Flock becomes more social; adds Digg, Powce, AOL Mail support with version 1.2

by Arnold Zafra on Jun 3, 2008 at 06:27 PM

Aside from Firefox and Internet Explorer, there are many other web browsers around the web. Some of these browsers have come and gone, while some still remain simply trying to get a piece of the users’ pie being shared upon by Firefox and IE. One of these browsers which has… Continue Reading »

PayPal clarifies; we are not blocking Safari users

by Arnold Zafra on Apr 20, 2008 at 07:54 AM

It looks like we may have all misinterpreted PayPal’s announcement that it will block users who are using old browsers when doing online transactions at PayPal. Some reports have included Apple’s Safari browser as among those that will be blocked by PayPal. PayPal has denied this report by saying that… Continue Reading »

Netscape will live on, for one more month

by Robert Nelson on Jan 31, 2008 at 03:36 PM

Netscape first announced that they were ending support for the Netscape browser as of February 1, 2008. With that date almost upon us, it has been given a slight reprieve, the browser will live on for one more month. The official support will now remain until March 1, 2008 and… Continue Reading »

End of an era: AOL ends support for Netscape browser

by Robert Nelson on Dec 28, 2007 at 06:54 PM

AOL has decided to end support for Netscape Navigator as of February 1, 2008. A once popular browser back in the 90’s seems to have fallen far behind. Netscape was purchased by AOL back in 1999 and was quickly updated to Netscape 6 which was the first Netscape-branded Mozilla based… Continue Reading »

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