Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

Following the WWDC keynote, Apple released Safari 5, claiming once again the title of fastest web browser. The company’s own benchmarks demonstrate performance gains over Google Chrome, which shares use of the WebKit HTML5 engine. More surprisingly however, Apple issued a security update for the latest Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) branch of Safari. Version [...]

Adobe has updated their “Gala” preview Flash Player release for Mac. The updated version of Adobe Flash is a superset of their ongoing Flash 10.1 Preview Release cycle. Specifically, it adds support for Apple’s new hardware acceleration for non-QuickTime video codecs. This support was added to the operating system, apparently, specifically for Adobe to tap [...]

Mozilla has released a new beta version of its mobile browser code-named Fennec for download and evaluation on the Nokia N900. Key new features in this version include compatibility with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux for development work, portrait browsing, form auto-complete, context menu, volume key zoom support, and the capability to export pages [...]

Opera has announced that Apple has in fact approved Opera Mini for the iPhone, with the app now available in the App Store. This follows Opera’s novel PR campaign to predict how long it would take Apple to approve or reject the browser, since Apple has previously rejected browser apps on the basis that they [...]

Nokia’s N900 has proven to be the ultimate platform for Linux tinkering and hacking, aided in no small part by the manufacturer itself as it actively fosters its rapidly growing community. The latest result of the community being formed around both the device and its Maemo 5 Linux distribution is an unofficial port of Chromium, [...]

Opera has announced that it will integrate its highly popular Mobile 10 and Mini 5 web browsers into Qualcomm’s revamped BREW Mobile Platform, which will make it easier for carriers utilizing the platform to deploy and offer the browsers as either a branded offering from the carrier or as an optional download amongst the thousands [...]

Opera has taken a rather novel approach to submitting its iPhone version of the popular Opera Mini browser to Apple’s App Store for approval. First it has issued a press release stating the submission of the app earlier this morning, and it has also opened up a dedicated portal with a timer that details the [...]

Mozilla Mobile Team Technical Lead Stuart Parmenter has announced that Mozilla has suspended development of its mobile version of Firefox, codenamed Fennec for Windows Phone Classic and Windows Phone Series 7 due to the direction that Microsoft has taken with Windows Phone Series 7 and its lack of support for native code development. Below is [...]

Opera has announced 1.0 versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, effectively graduating them from Beta status. Opera Mini 5 is available as a 1.0 release for Java ME based devices such as the BlackBerry and many featurephones, while remaining in beta for Android and Windows Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 1.0 is also [...]

Opera has announced the availability of the latest beta version of Opera Mini 5 for Android devices. The updated beta features Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and bookmark sync as well as support for virtual keyboards and a download/password manager. The only exception is the lack of support for multitouch gestures. The download is available here.