June 14, 2010 10:31 AM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

Touring the Minefield (gallery)

Browser development can be a risky place, even for a team of savvy, crowd-sourced enthusiasts. So it’s no surprise that Mozilla calls their nightly
Firefox build “Minefield”. What is surprising is that, in general, today’s version tended to be fairly stable. [...]

June 3, 2010 6:21 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

The developer’s build of Google’s Chrome browser now includes WebM, the open-source and royalty-free video technology that allows browsers to use cutting-edge streaming video features without publishers paying a dime.
In the new Chrome dev released Thursday for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google [...]