Meet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy (Sunday 06th of September 2009 03:00:01 AM)
DigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums, and a release schemer for Arch Linux,
got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix Philosophy: 'Write
programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well ...
(more)Google Chrome For Linux Goes 64-bit (Monday 24th of August 2009 12:15:01 PM)
Noam.of.Doom writes "The Google Chrome developers announced on August 19th the instanter
availability of a new version of the Google Chrome web browser for Linux, Windows and Macintosh
operating costs systems. Google Chrome 4.0.202.2 is here to fix a ...
(more)Adobe Flash Cookies Raising Privacy Questions Again (Wednesday 12th of August 2009 04:45:01 PM)
Nearly a year after we discussed the privacy implications of Flash cookies, they are in the
news again as the US sovereignty considers revising its cookie policy. Wired covers a study out
of UC Berkeley exposing questionable even break used by many of ...
(more)Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? (Friday 07th of August 2009 10:15:04 AM)
Blarkon writes "Slashdotters are aware of and often use Adblock Plus," and notes that "if
newspapers wanted to hit the online content traffic
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the career is the eye* ring hard right now, they would be running ...
(more)Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries (Wednesday 05th of August 2009 08:00:01 AM)
Inject_hotmail.com writes "Bell Canada started hijacking non-existent domains (in the same
manner as Rogers), redirecting NX-response queries to themselves, of course. Before opting-out,
you get their wonderfully self-promoting and self-serving search ...
(more)Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions (Monday 03rd of August 2009 05:30:03 AM)
A week after Microsoft agreed to include a browser ballot screen in Windows 7 systems sold in
Europe, then announced that those systems would initially include no browser at all —
specifically, no advice superhighway Explorer — Microsoft has ...
(more)Google Wave Reviewed (Thursday 23rd of July 2009 04:15:01 PM)
Michael_Curator writes "Developers are finally getting their hands on the contributor preview
of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand investment of what it's really
like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben Rometsch, ...
(more)Microsoft's "Gazelle" browser detailed -- it's more of a research project (Friday 10th of July 2009 10:44:00 PM)
If you're particularly attuned to tech gossip, you'll know that Google's Chrome OS
announcement has prompted a lot of whispers about existence called "Gazelle" being cooked up in
Microsoft's labs. Part browser, part OS, the word on the street is that ...
(more)CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' (Sunday 05th of July 2009 06:15:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has been talking for a year about edifice a
touch-screen tablet for Web surfing and now it appears that the CrunchPad is close to elegant a
reality. 'We're going to make some really big announcements,' ...
(more)New Click-Fraud Attack Is Stealthiest Yet (Wednesday 01st of July 2009 12:15:01 PM)
An unnamed reader sends news from The uncle sam* Post's sturdiness Fix blog of a new Trojan
horse program that takes click fraud to the next level. The Trojan, dubbed FFsearcher by
SecureWorks, was among the pieces of malware installed by sites hacked ...
(more)Mozilla To Launch "Build Your Own Browser" (Tuesday 09th of June 2009 12:15:11 PM)
Angry tapir sends in a piece from Down Under which begins "Mozilla is readying a program that
will allow companies to build their own customized browsers based on the next version of
Firefox, which will be out in a few weeks. ... Through the Build ...
(more)Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated (Friday 05th of June 2009 04:30:01 AM)
CNETNate writes "Dial-up weight* and flaky Wi-Fi are made significantly more tolerable with
Opera 10, it seems. After yesterdays news that Opera 10's first beta had landed, some testing
was in order. One major new feature is Opera Turbo — server-side ...
(more)Leaked Pics of CrunchPad Elicit Progress Update (Saturday 11th of April 2009 04:30:01 AM)
TechCrunch has released a few more specialized details, pictures, and general write-up about
their CrunchPad project as a recent fortuitous leak saw a new round of images posted to the
web. It seems that the tablet has continued to grow and evolve with ...
(more)Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability (Wednesday 01st of April 2009 05:15:01 PM)
Cstrep writes "Eight years ago, Opera introduced Mouse Gestures as a way to speed up your
interaction with the browser, and focus on what's important: Content. In 2005, Voice shipping
was introduced, and more latterly we've worked with playstation [tm] ...
(more)Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak (Tuesday 31st of March 2009 03:00:02 PM)
Dr Pete writes "Financial Times has an interesting piece about Lars Bak and Kasper Lund the
authors of the V8 virtual machine in Google's Chrome browser. 'Chrome attracted more than 10
million users in its first 100 days. notwithstanding that's an impressive ...
(more)Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now (Friday 20th of March 2009 12:00:07 AM)
CWmike writes "Internet Explorer 8 has shipped in its final version and is ready to take on its
rivals. Preston Gralla reviewed it and says the latest version of Microsoft's browser leapfrogs
its closest competition, Firefox 3, for basic browsing and ...
(more)Google Returns Chrome To Beta, Touts Speed Boost (Wednesday 18th of March 2009 11:45:02 PM)
CWmike writes "Google yesterday reversed its decision to ditch the beta label from its Chrome
browser, saying it is restoring the moniker to some builds to get faster comment to developers.
'Since we took the 'beta' tag off Google Chrome in December, ...
(more)Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google (Thursday 12th of March 2009 07:30:01 PM)
An unnamed reader points out a story at mtier Week which begins: "Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker
says the Chrome browser is making the footing behind Firefox rethink its reliance on revenues
from Google. Since Google introduced its own Web browser, Chrome, ...
(more)Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket (Saturday 28th of February 2009 06:15:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes to tell us that Parkingticket.com just announced new compatibility
with the Safari web browser on Apple's iPhone, giving you new tools to instantly contest a
parking ticket. The site is so self-confident in their service that ...
(more)MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser (Monday 23rd of February 2009 01:00:03 AM)
V!NCENT writes with an excerpt from a new build-up by Microsoft: "As web sites evolved into
dynamic web applications composing content from various web sites, browsers have become
multi-principal general expenses environments with effects shared among ...
(more)Ballmer Pleads For Openness To Compete With Apple (Saturday 21st of February 2009 10:45:01 PM)
Mjasay writes "At the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer took aim at Apple's closed iPhone
ecosystem with an ironic plea for openness: 'Openness is central because it's the heart* of
choice.' Ballmer has evidently forgotten his company's own efforts ...
(more)Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (Tuesday 27th of January 2009 12:45:01 PM)
Mikemuch writes "IE8 has left beta as of noon Pacific time today. The grow team now considers
the browser platform- and feature-complete, but won't say how long until it goes gold.
PCMag.com got an early look and has posted a full review of cyberspace ...
(more)Apple suddenly approves a bunch of browsers for App Store; major policy shift in progress? (Wednesday 14th of January 2009 11:20:00 AM)
Okay, so maybe a new browser isn't the first thing we'd like to see replaced with some fresh
cerebration out of the App Store -- that honor maybe goes to the email client, preferably with
existence that could rival the G1's capabilities -- but regardless, ...
(more)AMD Plans 1,000-GPU Supercomputer For Games, Cloud (Saturday 10th of January 2009 04:15:02 PM)
Arcticstoat writes "AMD is birth impediment to use over 1,000 Radeon HD 4870 GPUs to create a
supercomputer capable of processing one petaflop, which the company says will make 'cloud'
calculating a reality. When it's built later this year, the Fusion ...
(more)Web Browser Programming Blurring the Lines of MVC (Friday 28th of November 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Lkcl tips his in-depth article up at Advogato on the difficulties for the MVC neural knowledge
engineering model that are introduced by and AJAX, and solutions for
them. He writes: "This article outlines how the MVC concept is ...
(more)Triple-Engine Browser Released As Alpha (Wednesday 26th of November 2008 04:00:01 PM)
Jcasman passes along a heads-up on Lunascape, a hummum browser company that is releasing its
first English version of its Lunascape 5 triple-engine browser. It's for XP and Vista only.
There are reviews up at CNET, OStatic (quoted below), and Lifehacker. ...
(more)Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE (Saturday 22nd of November 2008 10:15:01 AM)
Ruphus13 writes "In an effort to take on IE and make strong headway in its share of the browser
market, Google is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook and working on deals with PC OEMs
to include Chrome in their devices. From the article: ...
(more)Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit (Thursday 25th of September 2008 11:30:02 PM)
Shipment Date writes "ZDNet's Zero Day blog has some new lore on what looks like a scary new
browser exploit/threat poignant all the major desktop platforms — Microsoft infobahn
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash. The ...
(more)Examining Chrome's Source Code (Sunday 14th of September 2008 11:00:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "Chrome is open source, and there's clearly still some work to be
done on it. In this article, Neil McAllister decided to take a peek under Chrome's hood and
view it through the eyes of the developers who will improve and ...
(more)Google Chrome Browser (Wednesday 03rd of September 2008 07:11:00 PM)
The new Google Chrome browser has really impressed me, it reminds me of Safari but a step
further. The usability was well thought out and the speed of the browser is faster than Safari
on the Mac. It's a shame it's not out for OSX ...
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