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Midori, a lightweight web browser which features full integration with GTK+ and fast rendering with WebKit, is now at version 0.4.6. According to the developer, Christian Dywan, the current version, Midori 0.4.6, is mostly a bugfix release so there are quite a few changes.Most importantly, Prominently 0.4.5 has a r... |
15 May 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Another beta for Maxthon web browser has just been released, but this time there is no new feature available, as the development team focused on repairs. Although the list of fixes is small, all entries are essential for the progress of the application, as some important components have been repaired. As such, users... |
5 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Thanks to Chrome's automated update mechanism, few people even notice when a new version is installed. Visible new features land now and again, but Chrome development may seem rather static otherwise. It's anything but, and, due to it being based on an open source project it's easy to track changes. ... |
6 March 2012
12:31 GMT |
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With love floating all around, Maxthon did not miss the opportunity to release a new version of their browser today. The new build is 3.3.4.3000 and apart from sporting a new, special Valentine’s Day skin, it also brings to the table improvements and fixes.
The latest build comes with a better extension platfo... |
14 February 2012
08:57 GMT |
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The stable version for Maxthon 3 browser popped out after only three betas. It comes with several improvements and fixes, an updated Webkit core and shows no new features.
Maxthon 3.3.4.2000 improves memory usage in Ultra Mode, increases the startup speed and brings to the table a better extension platform.
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10 February 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Maxthon development team rolled out a new beta build for the Chinese web browser, which includes a new feature and a bunch of improvements and fixes.
Newly added to this release is the option to create a duplicate tab. This can be done from the context menu of a tab or by using mouse gestures, natively supported by ... |
3 February 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Maxthon browser seems to have picked up the pace as the latest release, 3.3.4.600 beta, brings to the table several important improvements. It touches on important components, such as Main Frame, Webkit core, Trident core, AdHunter and form-filling feature, Magic Fill. Memory usage is only one of them, but the appli... |
12 January 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The latest stable version of Maxthon does not introduce any new features or options. Instead, it focuses on mending problems affecting the Webkit core.
At the head of the repair list in Maxthon 3.3.3.1000 stable are some crash and jQuery related problems, which have been eliminated. Additional mending touch on freez... |
5 January 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Maxthon’s fast development continues with a new stable version, incrementing the build number to 3.3.2.2000. The refinements in this release include a new “MX Classic” skin, improvements and some bug fixing.
Improvements refer to support for multiple languages in the address bar and updating the se... |
30 December 2011
00:55 GMT |
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The latest build of Maxthon Browser comes with some important features, online history and the extension platform being the most prominent.With Online History, the web browser takes all the browsing logs in the cloud, making it accessible at all times. Everything is uploaded online and stored in an organized manner, ... |
19 December 2011
04:54 GMT |
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The stable build for Maxthon 3 has rolled out. Among the most notable changes, there is an updated WebKit core and enhanced support for HTML5. But other important modifications have also been operated.
In the beta version of the browser, there were some crash problems with the WebKit core and it could not retri... |
8 December 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Although they are not in the habit to deliver final builds on Tuesdays, Maxthon released the stable bits for version 3.2.1.2000. The latest release touches the built-in snap tool and also the Webkit core and data synchronization.
Another component that underwent modifications is Magic Fill, the application’s f... |
8 November 2011
10:02 GMT |
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Maxthon 3.2.0.2000 has just been released and it brings to the table mostly fixes for the two rendering engines it features, WebKit and Trident. Further changes refer to the looks of the application. It’s the second version released in the past week, and a new beta is programmed for tomorrow (now released), an... |
27 October 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced a rather exciting development, the latest Firefox 10 Nightly builds now support CSS 3D transformations. The feature had been supported by WebKit browsers, aka Google Chrome, for a while now, but Mozilla has joined the party as well.As the name suggests, the feature enables developers to create 3... |
27 October 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Amazon's Silk browser, for the upcoming Kindle Fire uses a lot of tricks and cutting edge technologies to make the web as fast or even faster on the Kindle Fire tablet as with a regular desktop browser.Amazon has its vast and powerful Elastic Cloud Computing infrastructure to and its connections to all the major... |
29 September 2011
11:54 GMT |
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The people at AgileBits have released an update for 1Password users that prefer to download their software outside the Mac App Store - for example, to try-before-they-buy.Already available at version 3.9 on the Mac App Store (released earlier this month), 1Password also comes in a version that starts out as a free tr... |
19 September 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Android's browser has always been a source of confusion. The fact that Google refused to call it anything, besides "Browser" didn't help. The browser in Android shares quite a lot with Google's other browser, the touted Chrome, but it differs enough for Google to not call it Chrome.
Essentially, the... |
23 August 2011
04:48 GMT |
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WebGL may still be in the early stages, but there are already plans and initial work on the next stage WebCL project. While WebGL leverages GPU power for 3D graphics in the browser, WebCL is an attempt to make it possible for web pages and apps to access the GPU via the OpenCL standard, for general purpose computing.... |
5 July 2011
07:04 GMT |
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Owners of BlackBerry smartphones now have the possibility to enjoy a better Google search experience on their devices courtesy of a series of updates the Mountain View-based Internet company performed to the service.
The improved Google experience is available now for all BlackBerry 6.0 WebKit-enabled devices in... |
1 July 2011
03:46 GMT |
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Apple, knowingly bound to simultaneously release the binary and source code for WebKit because of its ties to the GNU Public License, has finally delivered the goods roughly two months late, much to the dismay of developers. AppleInsider points out to a report by Harald Welte of GPL Violations who highlighted the tw... |
10 May 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Mozilla has always been the champion of open source, of community over revenue. If there's anyone mistreating the open source world it's Google with Android. And, yet, Mozilla is the one making a move that will affect several projects not directly associated with the organization, it's dropping support... |
1 April 2011
11:50 GMT |
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The Chrome team has announced that there will be changes to the Chrome and Chromium User Agent (UA) string, to bring them in line with Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. What's more, the WebKit UA has also undergone the same updates. The changes are not great, mostly housekeeping stuff which removes some of the ... |
1 April 2011
06:00 GMT |
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From the outside, there's a notion that web technologies are rather static, they evolve, obviously, but only major steps are advertised. But the technologies powering the modern web are in a state of flux, developers and browser makers are constantly adding new stuff and tweaking the existing methods.At the same... |
30 March 2011
11:20 GMT |
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BlackBerry OS fell during the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking competition as a result of a drive-by download attack that chained together several exploits.The trio that managed to hack RIM's mobile operating system, Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers and Ralf Philipp Weinmann, exploited two vulnerabilities in th... |
11 March 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Apple will attempt to stop hackers in their tracks with a Safari patch set to fix numerous WebKit vulnerabilities, according to security firm Vupen. The move was rather foreseeable with the Pwn2Own hacking contest mere days away.
A leading IT security research company providing vulnerability management and securit... |
7 March 2011
04:22 GMT |
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The web is finally ready for 3D graphics, at least that's what the release of WebGL 1.0 would indicate. The 3D graphics for the web standard is now complete and can be used as a base for both applications and browser implementations.Of course, browser makers didn't wait until now to start deploying WebGL, i... |
4 March 2011
11:47 GMT |
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Google is announcing via its Chrome Releases blog that a new Beta version of the popular, open-source web-browser is now online for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X.
Anthony Laforge, of the Chrome development team at Google, informs that “The Beta channel has been updated to 9.0.597.67 for Windows... |
19 January 2011
02:48 GMT |
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The latest version of Research In Motion's BlackBerry mobile operating system became official a few days ago and, along with it, came a new BlackBerry browser, one that reportedly offers far more performance than its previous flavors did. According to the leading smartphone designer, the new solution should off... |
5 August 2010
03:35 GMT |
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While Flash doesn’t seem much of a priority at Apple, the company’s proprietary digital media player application certainly is, even on the Windows side. According to a Support document entitled “About the security content of iTunes 9.2,” Apple has patched a total of 40 vulnerabilities. Most of... |
17 June 2010
09:21 GMT |
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With the web becoming such a big part of everyone’s life, the web browser is probably the most important piece of software in any computer or device. But, with great power comes great responsibility, browsers are constantly a target for nefarious individuals up to no good. Add to this the ‘unpredictabilit... |
24 April 2010
08:49 GMT |
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WebKit is arguably one of the most important browser-related projects at the moment. Used by Apple Safari, Google Chrome and Chromium, the Android, WebOS and Symbian OS web browsers, it's safe to say that the open-source web rendering engine powers quite a big chunk of the web content consumed each day by people... |
9 April 2010
07:30 GMT |
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With all modern web browsers battling over JavaScript performance, there is a need for ways to reliably measure it. One benchmark that has proven very popular is SunSpider, created by the Webkit team. The benchmark is regularly used to compare various JavaScript engines, but, with things moving so fast in this area, ... |
8 April 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Smartphone sales have skyrocketed in the past years and continue to grow, spurred in no small part by the popularity of the iPhone. The largest traditional smartphone maker, catering more to business oriented users, RIM (Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry phones) has been keeping up in terms of sale... |
16 February 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Apple and Google may be increasingly at odds, but there's at least one thing on which they're still working together, the Webkit HTML rendering engine powering both Safari and Chrome, as well as a bunch of other desktop or mobile browsers. But working together doesn't exclude some form of competition ... |
8 February 2010
07:12 GMT |
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There's a great trend to move everything online these days. It's not exactly clear if this is a good thing in all circumstances, but everyone's getting on the bandwagon and there's no reversing it at this point. One problem, a big one, with doing everything in a browser is that the performance an... |
11 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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When Google decided to create a new browser, it knew it had an opportunity to avoid many of the problems facing existing browsers by coming up with new ways to do things and building a solid basis from the start. One of the smartest decisions was to give each individual tab its own process thread, which would solve a... |
5 December 2009
06:55 GMT |
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WebGL, a technology that will add hardware-accelerated 3D graphics capabilities to web sites and web browsers, is starting to pick up steam and is already seeing early experimental adoption in some of the major browsers. The Webkit HTML engine was the first to introduce support for WebGL almost a month ago followed s... |
9 October 2009
03:42 GMT |
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It looks like support for the upcoming web 3D graphics project WebGL is building up fast, as, just one week after it made its way into Webkit's latest experimental source-code releases, Mozilla Firefox 3.7 nightly builds also sport the new feature. The project is still pretty much in the early stages and still h... |
21 September 2009
03:21 GMT |
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WebGL, a nascent project that aims to bring 3D rendering capabilities to web browsers, made its first small step with the introduction in the developer builds of Webkit, the open-source HTML rendering engine first developed by Apple and used in Safari and Google Chrome. The support isn't enabled by default and i... |
14 September 2009
07:10 GMT |
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The Google Chrome developers announced a few days ago the immediate availability of another important update of their wonderful web browser, for Linux and Mac OS X platforms. Among the major features brought by Google Chrome 3.0.196.0, we can mention that users can now drag tabs into new windows (restoring is also po... |
6 August 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Google is pressing ahead with the next version of its open-source browser based on the WebKit engine. The Mountain View company is making sure to provide a steady flow of builds on a weekly basis, keeping testers and early adopters in tune with the evolution of Chrome. In fact, Google is moving forward with no less t... |
21 May 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Google has released yet a new version of its WebKit-based web browser, Chrome. Although still in beta, the browser adds numerous changes requested by users worldwide. Unfortunately, Mac development is still lagging behind, just as we reported the last time Chrome was receiving an update. Google has confirmed that it... |
9 January 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Sources are reporting that, three months after its initial release on Windows platforms, Google's Chrome web browser looks pretty much finished. Anticipating the close release, we can't help but pointing out that the browser is still incompatible with Macs, despite promises that engineers “are working... |
11 December 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Developed by the folks at Mesa Dynamics, Stainless is the simplest and most useful web browser you could ask for. Released to the public in September, Stainless has already seen six updates, although the software is still beta material. The latest version to date brings new additions, as well as bug fixes.Whether you... |
13 November 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Apple's WebKit group announced SquirrelFish Extreme. The “major new retooling of the SquirrelFish JavaScript engine” has made it to Safari before Apple could even release a final version of the web browser's fourth incarnation, AppleInsider is reporting.SquirrelFish is a regist... |
22 September 2008
08:18 GMT |
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A very intriguing aspect has come to light regarding Google Chrome's using several elements from the Apple system framework version of the WebKit engine - Safari is likely going to borrow some of the neat stuff Chrome sports, thanks to the merits of Open Source.TUAW's Christina Warren explains how one of th... |
9 September 2008
08:24 GMT |
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“Google Chrome for Mac is in development and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible,” the Google team has confirmed. Not only that, but Chrome for Mac will be even “faster” and “more robust” than the currently-available (Windows) version, accordi... |
3 September 2008
09:26 GMT |
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One of the world's experienced developers of WebKit-based software solutions recently announced the launch of Torch Mobile and the introduction of the company's flagship product, the Iris Browser. The company and product are being introduced for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spa... |
14 February 2008
04:37 GMT |
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