Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Firefox mobile beta 4 (Fennec) for N900

I ran across this video about Firefox mobile beta 4 for the Nokia N900 (running the Maemo 5 OS.) From the demoed browser on the video, you could make out that it is Fennec, but due to some reason Mozilla is now branding it more as Firefox mobile than as Fennec. Maybe to use the [...]

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Reasons why Internet Explorer 8 is cool

The final stable release of Internet Explorer 8 has been released and now that the new browser has had enough time to feel the world of internet and vice versa, it is now proper to make some comments about the browser.
There are few features in the new browser that makes it cool. The most prominently [...]

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Gazelle might mean the end of Internet Explorer

No antelope is going to crush the life out of IE with its curved horns ( though one species of the fox family might do that soon enough). Enough with the biology class though. Gazelle is the codename of a new “multi-principal OS” based browser from the stables of Microsoft Research.
According to the paper published [...]

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Fennec is now where it belongs - a mobile!

After releasing an alpha version of its upcoming mobile browser– Fennec — for desktop computers ( yeah, yeah not for a mobile, but for a PC), Mozilla has at last come up with an actual working version of Fennec for Windows Mobile. Although a previous alpha was released for the Nokia 810, that is not [...]

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Opera 10 alpha passes the “litmus” test!

Opera has made available the first alpha release of Opera 10, the next major version of its standards compliant but not so popular web browser.
The highlight of the new release seems to be the new rendering engine - Presto 2.2, which is believed to provide “improvements in speed, performance and security”. The Presto JavaScript engine [...]

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