September 7, 2010 4:59 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
The fifth
Firefox 4 beta makes some small feature changes to the in-development browser, bringing a new audio API to the table, revamping its menu, and turning on hardware acceleration by default. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Firefox 4 beta 5 continues Mozilla’s new [...]
August 27, 2010 11:46 AM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
Just a few weeks after the Chrome beta updated to version 6, Google upgraded the developers version of Chrome to 7 on Thursday. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Chrome dev 7.0.503.0 comes accompanied only by minor bug fixes.
There are some small tweaks to [...]
August 25, 2010 2:36 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
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The latest beta from
Firefox introduces Panorama, a new tab-grouping feature that makes it much easier to manage tabs. See how to use it in this video.
Want to try it out for yourself? You can download Firefox 4 [...]
August 13, 2010 3:12 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
A new method for blocking approved plug-ins from third-party sources appeared in the developer’s version of Google’s Chrome browser. Available on Friday for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google Chrome dev 6.0.490.1 includes numerous bug fixes and introduces the Click-to-Play feature for more finely tuned [...]
August 12, 2010 1:09 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
The Chrome to Phone installation process is simple, but the limitations of the Android marketplace mean users must search for the app manually on their phones.
(Credit:
Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
Google is providing its users with an elegant and simple method to transfer links and snippets [...]
August 11, 2010 4:26 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
Support for multitouch on
Windows 7 computers and cross-platform improvements to how the browser handles JavaScript were the biggest changes brought by Mozilla to the third beta of
Firefox 4, released Wednesday. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Firefox 4 beta 3 doesn’t make any changes [...]
August 11, 2010 1:44 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
Laying fallow since the June debut of Chrome 6 in the developer’s build, the beta build of Chrome received a major update on Wednesday when Google revised the beta up to version 6. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google Chrome beta 6.0.472.33 introduces [...]
August 4, 2010 6:04 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
One of the best features in the Thunderbird remix called Postbox was the deep and fluid integration of social networking contacts into the desktop e-mail client. Thunderbird itself has begun to get a taste of that power with Thunderbird Contacts, a version of Mozilla [...]
August 4, 2010 5:06 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
The fourth and final developer’s preview of Internet Explorer 9 was released on Wednesday, with significant updates to standards compliance and rendering speed, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft says that the way that Internet Explorer's new JavaScript engine Chakra integrates with the rest of the [...]
July 30, 2010 5:03 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
LAS VEGAS–A new JavaScript engine, HTML5, tabs on top, and a new add-on framework are not the only improvements that users can expect in
Firefox 4. At Black Hat on Wednesday, a trio of security representatives from Mozilla detailed how the company plans to push [...]