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Firefox 4 for Android released: 3x faster than stock browser [Video]

, Mar 29th 2011 Discuss [7]

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 for Android, with the company promising that the new browser is up to three times faster than the stock Android browser. That's thanks to new JavaScript engine tweaks, but there's also support for tabbed browsing, Firefox Sync and add-ons. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 released

, Mar 22nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Opera has pushed out the latest versions of its mobile browsers, Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11. The new apps support pinch-zooming together with smoother scrolling, panning and zooming, as well as a new tablet-suited UI. Read The Full Story

Chrome gets Flash Player exploit fix ahead of rivals

, Mar 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Google may have seen its Chrome browser come through Pwn2Own unscathed, but that doesn't mean everything in the app is safe. The search giant has fixed a Flash Player bug which Adobe described as "critical"; however, other browsers will be forced to wait on Adobe's own testing. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry users advised to disable JavaScript after hack hole spotted

, Mar 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

RIM has warned BlackBerry users and IT departments to disable JavaScript on their handsets, after the identification of a security flaw that could give hackers unauthorized access to the smartphones after visiting a compromised site. The loophole, which affects devices running BlackBerry 6, could in theory allow access to devices' memory cards and any data stored on them. Read The Full Story

2.35m IE9 downloads in 24hrs, but Tracking Protection prompts criticism

, Mar 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

Microsoft has seen over 2.35m downloads of Internet Explorer 9 in the first 24 hours that the updated browser has been available. The impressive stats - averaging out to more than 27 downloads every second - make IE9 twice as popular as its beta predecessor. Read The Full Story

Opera Mini yanked from GetJar over app store competition

, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

Opera may have beat rivals like Amazon to the punch with its new Opera Mobile Store, offering browser-based access to apps across various mobile platforms, but the new service has had an undesired side-effect: getting Opera Mini booted from GetJar. The download service confirmed this morning that "Due to violations of our T&C's Opera Mini has been banned from GetJar," going on to suggest that users "download Bolt, UCweb, Dolphin, Layar or Sqauce and others as needed" instead. Read The Full Story

Opera Mac App Store 17+ rating too low jibes browser VP

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

Opera has become the first non-native web browser to arrive in the Mac App Store, and as per Apple's normal policies has been slapped with a 17+ age rating. That's not upsetting VP of desktop products Jan Standal, however, who sees the classification - deemed necessary by Apple since all the filthy internet is viewable through a browser - as the perfect opportunity for a joke. "I'm very concerned," Standal says, "seventeen is very young, and I am not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application." Read The Full Story

iPad 2 Browser Benchmarks

, Mar 2nd 2011 Discuss [13]

The iPad 2, Steve Jobs took to the stage to tell us, offers twice the performance of the original iPad and 9x the graphics performance, thanks to its dual-core 1GHz Apple A5 processor. Still, what does that mean for daily use? Considering most people spend their time on tablets browsing, we ran some side-by-side SunSpider benchmarking on Apple’s old and new iPads to see how the new model shaped up. Check out the results after the cut.

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Firefox 4 To Be Final Major Update, Quicker Chrome-Like Updates Ahead

, Feb 28th 2011 Discuss [2]

Mozilla will change the way they update their browser after the release of Firefox 4 and will take on a more Chrome-like release model. Mozilla has been releasing only major updates over the last six years while Google's Chrome has already hit version 9 after only two years. With this final major release, Mozilla plans to do smaller, quicker releases as soon as new features are available rather than holding them back for a larger update. Read The Full Story

Vodafone Webbox internet keyboard plugs into your TV [Video]

, Feb 11th 2011 Discuss [1]

Vodafone has announced Webbox, an internet-enabled keyboard intended to turn a regular TV into an "internet portal". Based around a 14 x 25 cm QWERTY 'board with an RCA connection for the TV, the Vodafone Webbox packs the Opera Mini 5.1 browser together with support for SMS and email messaging, an FM radio, photo gallery and a music player. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook simulator updated with browser: Flash & HTML5 Video/Audio

, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

RIM has pushed out an updated version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS simulator, complete with a fully embedded BlackBerry browser so that would-be PlayBook devs can test out their web-apps, Flash 10.1 and general site performance. In addition to the Adobe support, the PlayBook will also handle HTML5 Video and Audio (though the simulator doesn't have the full range of codecs that the final hardware will). Read The Full Story

Microsoft releases H.264 plugin for Chrome; IE9 WebM video via plugin

, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

Microsoft has released an H.264 video plug-in for Google Chrome on Windows today, following the debut of a similar plug-in for Firefox back in last year. Meanwhile, the company has also confirmed that Internet Explorer 9 will support H.264; WebM video playback, as Google announced it would be switching to in Chrome and dropping H.264 in the process, will be supported in IE9 via third-party plug-ins. Read The Full Story
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