Think Twice About IE7 Before Upgrading To XP SP3

Still haven’t made up your mind about Internet Explorer 7? No problem, you can always uninstall it and revert to the Internet Explorer 6 web browser that came with your operating system. Unless you’ve upgraded to Windows XP SP3, that is. Because Microsoft is telling computer users that if they install IE7 before XP SP3, [...]

HowTo: Set-up Firefox For Inline Search Like Safari

Safari always had an interesting and convenient way of searching for text: it dims the background and highlights text-matches throughout the page. It’s too bad Firefox couldn’t that. It’s now possible to easily add that functionality to everybody’s favorite open-source browser thanks to a recent mozillaZine post.
The install process is pretty simple if you use [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 5 Portable Edition Available

Those folks at PortableApps are getting faster and faster. Just a few hours after Firefox 3 beta 5 was released, the portable version was available for download. Actually, it might have been available immediately, but we didn’t think to look for it until a few hours had passed.
What exactly is a portable app? Well, in [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 5 Is Out, and Reviewed

Firefox 3 Beta 5, Gran Paradiso’s milestone #13 is here and the list of features and improvement it brings along is pretty long so let’s get started. Oh, for those following Firefox 3 development you may want to jump to the sections marked in green for what’s new in Beta 5.
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Will Microsoft Snub “Standards Compliant” Mode In IE8?

Exclusive sources close to the Internet Explorer development team are reporting that latest internal builds of IE8 have deactivated the new “super standards compliant” mode. Worse still, this change is likely to be permanent if hushed proposals at the software giant are to be approved.
Current beta releases of IE8 sport the new Webslices feature allowing [...]

Safari 3.1 Is Now Available

In keeping with the 2008 tradition of Tuesday morning updates, Apple released Safari 3.1 today for both OS X and Windows — marking the transition out of beta status for the Windows build. At 143MB (for the Leopard version, at least), there’s a lot of changes, including

Improved JavaScript performance
Standards support, including CSS 3 web fonts, [...]

HowTo: Watch YouTube High Quality Videos by Default

You don’t need a URL hack or Firefox extension to force YouTube to send you videos in the highest quality that’s available, as most have thought. In your Account settings, you can tell YouTube to default to the higher-res, better audio version of clips when they’re available.
Apparently, YouTube automatically detects your connection speed and chooses [...]

IE8’s Activities and WebSlices Available for Firefox

Two of the main new features Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 introduced last week, Activities and WebSlices, are now available for Firefox users.
From the Article: “Activities is a simple way to add web services you can direct text selections to for further detail. For example, you can select a word of a web page, select [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 4 Review

Fortunately, Mozilla has not been shy to set as many milestones as needed, and given the many new features and tweaks Firefox 3 introduces, it seems anything but sensible, specially considering it’s not only about Firefox but Gecko, the web page rendering engine and the Mozilla platform as a whole which affects the many products [...]

IE 5.5 Beats IE 6.0, 7.0 On Acid 3?

Slashdot has written an interesting detail on the new Acid browser test. It seems like, according to the results compiled in this page, Internet Explorer 5.5 beats 6.0 and 7.0 on Acid3.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards for Internet applications. For example, XHTML, HTML, CSS, etc. Acid 3 basically takes a lot of [...]

IE8 Features Uncovered, Public Beta Out Today

Microsoft has posted two new web pages related to Internet Explorer 8 beta 1. The first page outlines some of the new features you’ll be able to find in the next generation web browser, while the other page offers download links. Unfortunately the download links don’t seem to be live yet, but we wouldn’t be [...]

IE8 Will Render In True Standards Mode By Default

In what is probably one of the most fantastic bit of news to come out of Redmond in a long time, Microsoft has announced today that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. Before you get all excited, read a little more below — between the lines [...]

Mozilla In Talks with Carriers About Mobile Firefox

Mozilla is in informal talks with mobile operators about its mobile Firefox project, which the organization hopes will shake up the market as much as the introduction of the desktop browser did in 2004. “Mozilla’s mission is to break open a closed market,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, during a visit to [...]

PayPal Excludes Safari From Their “Safer Browsers” List

I’ve seen some very convincing PayPal phishing sites in recent years (and within the past few weeks, still). I’ve also worried many times that friends and relatives less savvy in the ways of the phisher may inadvertently hand off a password or two and blame me – the one who talked them into a PayPal [...]

Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost

Mozilla has been working hard at making Firefox 3 faster than its predecessor, and it looks like they might be succeeding. They’ve recently added some significant JavaScript performance improvements that beat out all of the competition, including Opera 9.5 Beta. Plus, it comes out to be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer 7! Things [...]