Posted by: vinitneo on: January 29, 2009
We’ve all heard the anti-trust tirades before, but the EU just doesn’t want to let up on Microsoft. They’re not happy with claims that OEMs are "free to include other web browsers." Nope. That just won’t cut it. The answer: more bloat for the end user! Yes, the European Commission is [...]
Posted by: vinitneo on: December 24, 2008
Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser, Fennec, has hit Alpha 2 and is faster, smoother and the usability of the features have been improved. This new release has also got 1 new add-on besides URL Fixer – AutoAuth which simply adds password memory for sites that require authentication. From the looks of this Alpha built, it seems [...]
Posted by: vinitneo on: November 27, 2008
Lunascape is one of a kind of web browser and it very unique because it has not one but three rendering engines. The latest Alpha version of Lunascape supports three of the most popular rendering engines used in other web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. Upon setup, [...]
Posted by: vinitneo on: September 10, 2008
It’s just a week since Google’s Browser Chrome was launched and it has already snatched Internet Explorer’s market share.
While Chrome accounted for 0.7% of all browsers used last week on average, Microsoft Corp.’s IE lost 1.4 percentage points in market share during the same period, said U.S.-based tracking company Net Applications. Microsoft’s browser ended the [...]
Posted by: vinitneo on: August 27, 2008
Microsoft yesterday announced that some new privacy tools are going to added to the Internet Explorer 8 (beta 2).
The Private Browsing mode when enabled, IE8 will not save browsing and searching history, cookies, form data and passwords; it also will automatically clear the browser cache at the end of the session.
Other new tools will include [...]
Posted by: vinitneo on: July 31, 2008
Do you remember the cool add-on IE8 Activities for Firefox or do you know that Internet Explorer has a feature known as Activities ?
These posts will refresh your memory -
Activities and webslice in Firefox
New version of Firefox activities is here
My take on Internet Explorer 8
Got what I’m talking about?
I said at that time this [...]
Posted by: vinitneo on: July 23, 2008
Well not really… it’ll happen only if you have kept the security settings on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 to their most paranoid level.
This problem is not with Firefox, Firefox is just honoring your Windows security settings for downloading applications and other potentially unsafe files from the Internet.
According to Mozilla -
Starting in Firefox 3, downloads of [...]