Opera has impressed me lately. I’ve been switching back and forth between Opera 8.5 and Firefox. Opera is a lot more streamlined — It takes up less memory than Firefox, and renders pages much faster. As far as standards compliance goes, Opera beats Firefox hands down.
On Thursday, Opera made Opera 9.0 Preview [...]
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The Eolas patent on browser plugins was upheld in court. It covers “a system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object” — basically, a browser plugin. This is a perfect example of ridiculous patents [...]
Wireless hotspots are great. They do have one drawback though in the fact that your web traffic is not encrypted (for the most part). Someone with minimal knowledge can capture all those packets flying through the air, and potentially get your passwords, etc. Google to the rescue! Google has announced they’re [...]
George Ou from ZDNet compares the number of recent security flaws found in IE vs Firefox.
From March 2005 to September 2005 10 vulnerabilities were published for Microsoft Internet Explorer, 40 for Mozilla Firefox. In April-September timespan there were 6 exploits for MSIE, 11 for Firefox. Conclusion? As you can see, the facade that Firefox is [...]
According to Epic Empire, Hotmail will be replaced with Mail, currently in beta. Google seems a lot clunkier all of a sudden. Mail is inspired by Outlook.
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Rumors say that Microsoft, in all it’s wisdom, decided that it would give consumers more choice when it comes to operating systems. 9 to be exact.
Windows Vista Home N Edition (Europe only)
Windows Vista Home Basic Edition
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Windows Vista Professional N Edition (Europe only)
Windows Vista Professional Edition
Windows Vista Small Business Edition
Windows [...]
Windows Media Center, currently a seperate OS, is expected to be included as standard in the client version of Vista released in November 2006. With the ability to turn the Xbox360 into a media center (previously posted here at Digg), the inclusion of MCE features in Vista is expected to promote sales of both [...]
I’m happy to see that one of the top items on the IE team’s list is standards support, right behind improving security. Also, they finally added alpha channel support in PNG images! No more javascript workarounds… Until this thing is released, I recommend Firefox.
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Google’s personalized home page now allows users to add their own RSS content! This is big news. Microsoft had better catch up with thier Start.com projet if they expect to capitalize on this space. Google is definitely winning the innovation war on the web.
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Hoping to pave a new path to its popular Web site, Yahoo has acquired Konfabulator, a tiny software maker that provides a computer platform for monitoring the weather, stock prices and a wealth of other customized information without opening a Web browser.
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