Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Opera Mini 4.1, with a number of bug fixes and tweaks, has been released.
TechCrunch with an article on Mozilla's "stealth data project", which aims to collect statistics on web usage from Firefox's 170 million strong user base. Mozilla CEO John Lilly provides some clarification.
Mozilla joins the LiMo Foundation, which develops ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Commercial web applications must overcome a vexing business dilemma: how to make money in the face of so much free competition. This is a symptom of the VC-fueled internet economy that has prevailed since the dot com days. Venture capital firms provide companies with money based on some woolly half-baked ...
Tags: apple, firefox, flock, microsoft, money, mozilla, opera, trends | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
WebKit announces a new mailing list for reporting security vulnerabilities.
Deb Richardson elucidates the new Firefox site identification button. Besides the practical merit of this feature, it is a fascinating study in communicating potentially confusing information to end users.
Dion Almaer with a hack to duplicate the way Firefox lets you jump ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Microsoft ships XP Service Pack 3 with continued support for Internet Explorer 6.
Firefox wins favorite browser in the LinuxJournal Readers' Choice Awards with 86% of votes cast.
John Resig implements a complete HTML parser entirely in JavaScript. Multiple interfaces are provided including SAX and a DOM builder. Amazing.
Flock wins a Webby ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Opera's David Storey, who lists his job title as "Chief Web Opener", posted an intriguing entry on his blog where he hints at a supersecret project in the works, codenamed Dragonfly:
So what exactly is Opera Dragonfly? I won't say quite yet, but I do think that, in my opinion, it ...
Tags: opera, ria, rumor | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie continues to promote and defend his company's legal action against Microsoft for anti-competitive practices with a guest editorial in The Register. One thing seems incontrovertible: Microsoft should not be allowed to tie Internet Explorer to Windows and strong-arm hardware manufacturers into refusing bundling deals with ...
Tags: firefox, ie, microsoft, opera, rants, standards | 7 Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2008
My week-long adventure with Opera is coming to a close, and it's undeniably a solid, professional product. One thing that struck me is how many nice little convenience features it provides:
VCR controls to "rewind" and "fast forward", in addition to the standard back and forward buttons. Rewind takes you to ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
I've had a couple of problems with Opera today. The first is the Google Reader issue I mentioned yesterday. It seems to occur when I scroll down the items in a feed using the mouse wheel. At a certain point, the feed window stop scrolling and the whole pane moves ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Today we kick off Just Browsing's ongoing Browser of the Week series. I installed Opera on my MacBook Pro this morning, though I couldn't cut the Firefox umbilical cord entirely and I'm still using it on my other computer (a Windows XP box). I'll be delving into some of the ...
Tags: botw, flash, opera | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Last week I promised that my "Browser of the Week" series would begin on Monday. Due to unforeseen circumstances, it will kick off next week. The first browser to go under the microscope will be Opera. If Opera does anything special that I absolutely positively must take a look at, ...
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