Browsers News & Articles

The first release of Mozilla’s in-browser messaging/content aggregation client was--at best--a terribly executed extension backed by a good idea and a cool looking logo. 

With security issues plaguing the end of 2008, the browser wars are back in full swing. This time Google steps up to the plate, opening the new year of battle with their Chrome 2.0 pre-beta trial.

Here’s an interesting conference happening on December 11, 2008 in Mountain View, California. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are joining forces to bring you a conference all about creating Add-ons for the browser.

Seems like everyone these days wants to jump into cloud services and browser-based applications. IBM is no different. The company has been working on a secret project for nearly five months. Well it is no longer a secret and Big Blue has divulged some details about Blue Spruce, the company’s first attempt in providing a complete browser-based application development platform.

We have been keeping our eyes on the browser wars for quite some time here at CMSWire. While the battle has been heating up on desktop platforms, the new and cool thing is mobile browsing.

Mozilla has been lagging behind in the mobile arena, but that may have changed with Mozilla’s latest mobile browser — Fennec. Fennec enables the very things that made Firefox so popular: extensions. The first extension has been released and things are moving quick.

mobiSiteGalore, a service to enable building Web sites with almost any mobile device, was recently recognized for its awesomeness via 2008 Most Innovative Enterprise Mobile Internet Application and Mobile Internet World Innovation 2008 Awards Runner-up.

We know the task of building websites with a mobile phone sounds like it could be expensive, time consuming and difficult, but that’s what’s so cool about mobiSiteGalore. By recognizing that not everyone has an iPhone, or a fancy-shmancy Palmtop, mobiSiteGalore reaches out to all corners of the mobile market.

Opera Software announced the release of the newest version of their Web browser, Opera 9.6. With as much gusto as we imagine a software company can possibly muster, their Web browser boasts not only speed and performance improvements, but also a variety of new features.

And the browser wars continue. As a recent reaction to all the privacy issues surrounding Google Chrome, a German software company SRWare has released a free alternative called Iron.

Aside from the obvious metallic element similarity, Iron is also based on the Chromium source code, with the controversial bits removed.

Last time we covered Skyfire, those who wanted to browse the Internet on their phones in the same way as on their PCs had to sign up on a waiting list.

Well, now you can kick that wait time to the curb, because Skyfire has upped its game and left private beta. It is now available to anyone in the U.S. with a phone running on Windows Mobile, and it’s still absolutely free.

One of Skyfire’s new features — Super Bar — acts a lot like Google Chrome’s Omnibox with its auto-suggest and search capability in one address bar.

Firefox has been in the spotlight for the past few years, but now another browser is aiming to steal that attention away. That browser is none other than Google Chrome. It seems like these are very critical times as new browsers and browser versions are constantly being developed, but never has a new browser had such attention behind it. So, just how well does Chrome fair when compared to its competition?

Within hours of Google Chrome’s entry into the Web browser arena, concerns about the browser’s privacy and copyright claims within the terms of service echoed throughout blogs and news organizations around the world.

With a unique ID embedded in each copy of Chrome, so the grumble goes, Google could use Chrome to harvest huge amounts of behavior data and potentially dramatically erode any remaining semblance of online privacy. This idea has given us pause. Is Chrome a major privacy threat or have the good net citizens of the world been overreacting?

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is now available for download by the public. Microsoft certainly needs to push IE8 out soon — especially when considering the recent developments within the Web browsing market. The company is touting the premise that IE8 is the most secure, reliable and privacy-aware version of the product to date. Will it be enough to impress the users of other browsers while keeping up with the expectations from current users?

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera, watch out — Google is entering the fray with its shiny new creation called Chrome. Google’s newest creation will be available for download today in more than 100 countries for people using Microsoft Windows, but is the amount of drama brewing from Google’s announcement just the beginning of a new browser war? Are we prepared for what Google will bring to the table and what personal information they make take from it as a result?

Ever feel like you could use some validation in life? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s popular Markup Validator service won’t quite do that for you, but it will help keep your website running efficiently on different browsers, which is almost as important.

The Markup Validator recently received a facelift in the form of a new user interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance.

While there wasn’t much excitement at this week’s WWDC for the Apple Fanboys amongst us, Apple did flip the script and reveal Safari for Windows.