Users who have been eagerly waiting for a release of Firefox 4 final at the end of this year are in for a hefty disappointed, as the release of the browser has just been postponed to 2011. The milestones have been updated to reflect the changes. According to the new information presented there, Mozilla plans [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The first version 9 Chromium builds have appeared today on the build server, marking yet another big version jump for the web browser. Another? Yes, if you follow the development of Chromium you know that the browser was bumped to version 8 just two weeks ago. Google mentioned earlier that they would accelerate the release [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Browser developers like to compare their browser to others. We have the fastest, or we are closing in, or we gained xxx percent over the last couple of months have become common ever since Google Chrome made its first appearance. Asa of Mozilla yesterday published a new article with the title “are we fast yet?” [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Who would have thought that? ESPEN ANDRÉ ØVERDAHL over at Opera has just revealed that the next big iteration of the Opera web browser will have extensions. Yes, extensions like Firefox or Google Chrome. That’s probably the one major feature that is missing in Opera currently. Think of the possibilities for a moment. With extensions, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Companies who develop web browsers often work on multiple strains of a web browser at the same time. Google does that for instance by maintaining three different builds of the browser. Mozilla does it as well, and so does Opera. Opera has been working on Opera 10.63 as well as Opera 10.70 for a while [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Many websites today reported that Internet Explorer’s overall market share fell below 50% for the very first time. When it comes to statistics, it always pays to ask for the source to better analyze the data presented. All websites who have reported on this have been using StatCounter elusively (likely one site started it and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Every major release if a new web browser comes with lots of activity on technology news site. Everyone aims to be the first to report about something, and some manage to get their copies early for a distinct advantage. Then again, in the end it turns that a huge amount of interchangeable articles flood the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

There has not been a lot of movement in the browser market in August 2010. Microsoft lost 0.34% with their Internet Explorer browser while Google gained nearly the same share (0.36%). Firefox remained stable and gained 0.02%, Safari gained 0.07% and Opera lost 0.08%. The picture looks different when individual browser versions are analyzed. Internet [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Hardware accelerated rendering seems to be a new web browser trend, as developers of all major browsers have confirmed that their browsers will support it in one form or the other. The latest announcement in this regard came from the Chromium team just two days ago. Google has for some time worked on implementing hardware [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome