Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Memory use, no extensions; Winner: Firefox 3.6!

It seems like each extension is individually contained in a tab-like shell, meaning that if your extension crashes, it won't bring down your whole browser.

Tech Tip of the Week: Use a Browser Sandbox for Cross-Browser Testing

The Spoon Browser Sandbox offers 11 different Web browser builds, including IE 6, 7, and 8, Firefox 2, 3, and 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9 and 10

Monday, January 25, 2010

Mobile analytics

Browsers such as Opera Mobile on today's phones provide many more standard web capabilities than the low spec WAP browsers

Google Chrome 4.0, with Extensions

Extensions, as their name suggests, extend the capabilities of and customize the browser's appearance and function.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Firefox 3.6 adds speed and Personas

With five identical tabs open in each browser, Chrome used 194.6MB versus 100.3MB in Firefox. That is partly by design

Google's Chrome OS

Chrome OS's interface is Google's Chrome browser. If you can use a Web browser, you'll be able to use Chrome OS. That's not the case now.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6: download

While Apple's Safari has also been gaining, Google's Chrome browser is growing fastest and accounted for 4.63 per cent of the market

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Google's Android 2.1: How It'll Change Your Phone

While Google calls the update a "minor platform release," Android 2.1 includes several interface changes that are sure to catch your eye.