Firefox 3.6 1 Release Candidate Has been Released
Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is the latest development milestone of the next version of the Firefox web browser. As a release candidate, this is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, and represents the features and content that will be in the final product release.
Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.
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Automate your download from File Hosting Sites with Mipony
When we download from file hosting sites such as rapidshare, the one thing which frustrates us usually is the waiting time imposed on us and the time limit set for free users before downloading another file. Monitoring all these things can be a tiresome issue especially if you have other works to do and just can keep focused on the download itself.
There is lots of software available around that resolves this issue, but Mipony is one of them which really stands out.
Mipony is a software specially designed to download easily files from free hosting pages like Rapidshare and Megaupload. It bypasses filling captchas, allows to download files in queue or multiple files from various servers at a time. What more included in this software is an integrated web browser with Link Detection feature; with which you can add a list of files in download queue. It works with both Free and Premium download account.
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Chrome + Privacy = Iron
Ever since Google released Chrome, lots of people immediately fell in love with it because of its wonderful user friendly minimalistic interface. One main issue with chrome is that a lot of people hated the lack of privacy, almost everything is monitored and each chrome copy had a unique identifier key. And almost every website you enter is checked with Google servers for security (at least that’s what they claim).
All these Issues are a thing of the past with Iron, Iron is a browser based solely on the Chromium project( which is open source of course). Iron is developed by a German company called SRWare. SRWare has made some major modifications to Chrome code and built iron so that it remains completely private, and also Iron has a URL blocker built in therefore ad blocking in iron is built in. See the difference between Iron and Chrome here. Another major option is that in Iron you can completely edit the User Agent which will be useful for some people.
Opera 10 Final
Opera 10 final is out. Nothing much to say here as its almost same as the RC build except for a few changes. For those who are switching from 9 there a several new features including the Opera Turbo and Auto update. You can view the full change log and features here: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1000/
Mozilla ready to work on Firefox 3.7: New Features, New Design
Firefox 3.5 was released several weeks ago adding lots of new features(and bugs) to it. It hasn’t been a month after the 3.5 release and Mozilla is already getting ready for Firefox 3.5’s successor, Firefox 3.7. The first mockup images of version 3.7 was added to the Mozilla wiki 1 day ago and these images show a totally revamped user interface as several features. Now as these are images of the initial stages so we cannot be sure what will end up in the final version. Good news is that Mozilla will be gathering user feedback on the design as they used to do with their earlier versions.
Here are some screenshots of the mockup 3.7, and descriptions of the features stated in the wiki
- Embracing Glass: Toolbar and Tabs using Glass. Buttons translucent and slightly glossy to meld with the toolbar. Raised 3D lookachieve tactile "feel".
- Page Button: Connect the Page button to the left side of the tab area. Directly connected to the Page.
- Tools/Bookmark Bar: Connecting the Tools button to the side of the Window to emphasize the fact that it is used for customizing and changing the UI. Adding a button next to that to toggle the Bookmarks Bar which is turned off by default.
Auto Login to Live Mail Using IE While IE is Not The Default Browser
Whenever you click the new mail icon of the live messenger, you are sent to the live mail login page in whatever browser is the default in your PC, so if IE is your default browser then no problem, but most people including me prefer Firefox. Well in that case you will have to (unfortunately) manually login to your email account.
But what if you would like to login to your Live mail account using IE (without the manual login hassles, and security issues), while Firefox is still your default browser?
Opera 10 Beta (V10.00b1)
Opera 10 beta is supposed to be 40 percent faster than the previous version. This version include resizable tab bar, improved user interface, spell checker support for 51 languages and Opera turbo which can switch automatically according to network speed. This feature will definitely help users with a slow internet connection. Currently the Opera 10 beta is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, QNX, OS/2, BeOS operating systems. Use the Opera 10 beta page to download or the links given at the end of this article.
Microsoft officially launches IE8
Microsoft has officially released Internet explorer 8 during Mix09 conference in Las Vegas. This release follows the release of the new Silverlight beta and Expression blend 3. The new browser still lacks some features like extension support but supposed to be more secure, fast and more importantly(what Microsoft didn’t do) it is web standards compliant now. (I still don’t know about it)
As for new features it has its old features(as in beta) like Accelerators and web slices and there’s also a new feature called InPrivate browsing. What it does is that it leaves no trace of users browsing sessions and also supposed to prevent 3rd party web sites from monitoring the user. Another new feature is a smart address bar similar to Firefox’s awesome bar. Finally it has an auto renderer feature which switches itself to IE7 compatible mode when needed.
Google releases new beta: Improvements in speed and new features
Google Chrome blog has announced a new beta version of their browser has been released. Main improvements in this version is the speed. According to Google its 25% faster V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current “stable” version. Other than the speed improvements this version has form autofill, autoscroll, full page zoom and something called drag tabs. See video for more info.
Opera 10 Turbo Preview
Opera has released a preview version of their browser included with the new opera technology called “Opera Turbo”. What this turbo thing does is that it uses server side optimization to compress the amount of data so the total amount to be downloaded will be reduced. This is similar to their “opera mini” optimization. Also this turbo function doesn’t help much (no need to actually) if you have a fast connection but its a very good experience if you use a slow connection(dialup maybe). I’ve tested the turbo function and it does seem a bit faster except in some cases the image quality is compromised heavily when in turbo mode. Secure connections(SSL) are not routed through opera servers and they will be connected directly so there is no threat to your sensitive data. This release is compatible with Windows/Mac OSX/Linux.
The turbo button can be found on the lower left of your browser
above picture shows turbo enabled state
