Tag Archives: browsers

What’s Useful in the Safari Extensions Gallery [Safari]

By melissa | Published: July 28, 2010
Safari's Extensions Gallery has gone live , and there's quite a bit to look through and add to your browser at launch. We took a gander through the offerings and picked out some of the extensions worth noting. Here's the (updating) list. More
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Firefox 4 Beta 2 Adds More Languages and App Tabs

By melissa | Published: July 27, 2010
Firefox 4 beta 1 was released earlier this month, and today the next version has become available — this time with support for 23 more languages. The latest Firefox 4 beta also features tabs on top for Mac OS X users (the last version was for Windows users only) and a new feature called App Tabs. App tabs can be created for your most accessed sites, and are designed to save space by only displaying the favicon (instead of the entire tab with its title description). You can create an app tab for any site by right-clicking on the tab and selecting “create App Tab.” This is a really nice little feature and can certainly clean up overly full browser windows
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How to Quickly Search Your Favorite Web Site for Selected Text with a Bookmarklet [Bookmarklet]

By anthony | Published: July 22, 2010
If you find something interesting on the net and want to see if it's been mentioned on one of your favorite sites, reader The_Doc has created a bookmarklet to search Google for the currently selected text with a site: operator. More
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Testing Suites Show Firefox 4 Not Quite Caught Up in Speed [Performance Tests]

By melissa | Published: July 7, 2010
We ran our own Mac-based performance tests last week with Firefox's pre-beta release candidate, and found Firefox 4 an improvement, but not quite catching up to other browsers in raw speed. Web Worker Daily did its own MacBook Pro tests , and found that Firefox 4 was, at best, on par with Opera 10.6 on Mozilla's Dromaeo testing suite (they ran the combined "Recommended Tests," whereas we broke the results into JavaScript and CSS). Pure speed isn't everything, of course, and the new Firefox has a lot to recommend . Have you found Firefox 4 to be faster, or comparable to other browsers
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Opera 10.6: 10 Strong Reasons To Switch Over To Opera

By admin | Published: July 2, 2010
Opera has always been ahead of the browser curve. It was the first browser to introduce the startpage-like new tabs, a feature it calls Speed Dial. Despite all that Opera has to offer, it is not the first browser preference of many computer users.
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Opera 10.6: 10 Strong Reasons To Switch Over To Opera

By melissa | Published: July 2, 2010
Opera has always been ahead of the browser curve. It was the first browser to introduce the startpage-like new tabs, a feature it calls Speed Dial. Despite all that Opera has to offer, it is not the first browser preference of many computer users. This is something Opera hopes to change with the release of its new version. Opera 10.6 is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux
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Browser Speed Tests: The Latest Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari—on a Mac [Performance Tests]

By melissa | Published: July 2, 2010
Many readers have asked us to replicate our browser speed tests on a Mac, to see the difference in platforms and performance. So we snagged a new MacBook Pro when nobody was looking and tested the latest browsers on it. More
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Is Google Chrome Usage Soaring at Firefox’s Expense? [STATS]

By anthony | Published: June 28, 2010
Google Chrome continues to gain browser marketshare , edging past Apple’s Safari in the U.S. and, apparently, also taking some users from Mozilla’s Firefox. The latest browser statistics from StatCounter align with reports we’ve seen from other analysts, including Net Applications , which first indicated that Chrome had become the number three browser globally back in December 2009. However, this new report shows that Chrome has jumped ahead in the U.S. as well
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Speed Testing the Bleeding Edge Browsers’ HTML5 Performance [HTML5]

By anthony | Published: June 24, 2010
Download Squad's Sebastian Anthony pits developer versions of IE9, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera against each other in an HTML5 benchmark. The results: Currently the hardware acceleration available in IE9 and Firefox 3.7 take the performance cake. [ Download Squad ] More
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Favitt Lets You Create Your Own Multi Search Engine In Minutes

By melissa | Published: June 24, 2010
Everyone knows how important search is. You search Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Last.fm, Amazon and plenty of other sites for different products, content, images, videos etc. Unfortunately, none of these sites lets you customize the search interface as good as Favitt does. Favitt lets you simplify the search experience by bringing all these search engines in a customized start page
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