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YUI 3.2.0 preview release 1 – touch events support, transitions and browser-specific loading

Over at the the YUI blog the team just announced the preview release of YUI 3.2.0. YUI3 now has some interesting new features that the team wants you to try and tell them if they work out for you. The changes to the already very powerful library are
 
Chris Heilmann
Jul 28 2010 09:51 AM
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Secure Browser – A Sandboxed Firefox 3.6

Controlling malware intrusion, while surfing the Net, through the use of a ‘”virtual” environment, rather than operating in a “real” environment, continues to make sense given the level of cyber criminal activity on the Internet. In the last few months
Jul 22 2010 07:36 AM
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Free Qualys BrowserCheck – Spot Plug-in Security Flaws In Your Browser

Yesterday, I wrote on the Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI), and I mentioned in the article, that each week I receive the Qualys Vulnerability Report from Qualys, a security industry leader in vulnerability assessment, and vulnerability
Jul 21 2010 08:44 AM
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This Just In: Firefox is Still Slow

Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 4 yesterday. As there have been a few new browser releases recently, with Opera, Chrome and Safari all making great leaps forward, I thought it was time to do a comprehensive head-to-head test. Read on for the
 
Simon Mackie
Jul 08 2010 05:56 AM
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Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG

Mozilla went to London, England yesterday night to give a workshop about Mozilla Add-Ons and show some of the cool new stuff coming in Firefox 4. Probably the most impressive thing (next to the new Add-Ons Builder based on Bespin) was the upcoming
 
Chris Heilmann
Jul 01 2010 05:58 PM
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The death of the pixel as we know it; The new DPI web

The Web used to be so simple. Browser request goes to server, where you do some work, and return some HTML. Then we got Ajax and finally web apps could have some semblance of UI responsiveness. Now we have richer HTML5 technologies to change expectations
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 30 2010 06:59 PM
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IE9: Big leap forward, and how we can help the Microsoft inertia

Microsoft continues to impress with its developer preview releases for IE9. They went from a laggard in both performance and Web standards, to regrouping and doing some fantastic work in both regards. The honourable PPK has detailed the leap forward with
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 29 2010 01:34 AM
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IE’s Big Leap Forward

Peter-Paul “ppk” Koch writes in his blog, QuirksBlog (which lives on his site, QuirksMode): In the past few days I’ve been revising the CSS compatibility table with information about the latest crop of browsers. There’s no doubt about it: this is IE9’s
 
Joey deVilla
Jun 28 2010 09:27 PM
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Internet Explorer 9 Videos on Channel 9

By now, you’ve probably seen my article covering the new, faster, even more standards-compliant Platform Preview 3 of Internet Explorer 9. From hardware acceleration to a speed-boosted JavaScript engine with support for new ECMAScript 5 language features
 
Joey deVilla
Jun 27 2010 09:24 PM
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IE9 supports Canvas…. hardware accelerated!

Huge news. My canvas crusade is done. IE9 is supporting canvas, and it is hardware accelerated, in the third preview release: With the third platform preview, we introduce support for the HTML5 Canvas element. As you know our approach for standards
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 24 2010 02:05 AM
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HTML5Rocks.com: Google DevRel shares the love

The Chrome and HTML DevRel team at Google have released a new portal, HTML5 Rocks, that packages together some of the great resources available on HTML5 and the renaissance of browsers. Whether it be references on what you can do, to readiness to shims
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 22 2010 11:02 PM
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Studying perceived performance of Firefox and Chrome

“A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.” said the cowboy John Wayne. Mozilla’s new intern with the same name knows that Mozilla needs to do… and it needs to do performance. It isn’t just about JavaScript performance
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 21 2010 12:51 PM
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Opera 10.60 Beta Released, Download NOW

Good news for Opera users. Opera team has released Beta version of Opera 10.60. The focus on this version has been performance and core updates. They have also added some nice web technologies like WebM, Geolocation, Web Workers, Offline Web
Jun 16 2010 07:50 PM
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How to Enable New Animation in Mozilla Firefox 3.7 (4.0) Preferences / Options Window?

It seems Mozilla team is really hard working on Firefox's upcoming version 4.0 which is currently codenamed as 3.7. A new sweet animation has been added to "Preferences" (Options) window which is currently disabled by default but can be enabled using
Jun 15 2010 10:27 AM
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New Updated “Aero Glass” Interface in Latest Firefox 3.7 Alpha 6 Preview Build

Mozilla has again updated the interface of its upcoming Firefox version 3.7 (which is actual version 4.0) in the latest Alpha 6 Preview build. As we all know Firefox 3.7 fully supports "Aero Glass" under Windows Vista and 7 and Mozilla is regularly
Jun 13 2010 08:57 AM
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Google Chrome Frame Gets Beta Love

*thump*. That is the sound of Google Chrome Frame getting a beta tag on it with a new version that comes up to Chrome 5 levels: Instead of adding new bells and whistles, we’ve fixed more than 200 bugs to make integration with Internet Explorer
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 09 2010 03:20 AM
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Microsoft Office Web Apps Launched on SkyDrive, Create Office Documents Free in Web Browser

Microsoft has launched the much awaited Office Web Apps for public on SkyDrive. Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. If you live in the US, UK, Canada, or Ireland, you can head over to
Jun 08 2010 06:59 PM
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5 Excellent New Features in Safari 5

On June 7th, Apple released an update to their web browser, Safari 5. It includes a plethora of new features for web developers, including a faster JavaScript engine, better HTML5 support, extension support, and a great Web Inspector update. We will
 
Devon Govett
Jun 08 2010 06:57 PM
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5 Excellent New Features in Safari 5

On June 7th, Apple released an update to their web browser, Safari 5. It includes a plethora of new features for web developers, including a faster JavaScript engine, better HTML5 support, extension support, and a great Web Inspector update. We will
 
Devon Govett
Jun 08 2010 06:07 PM
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Safari 5: Features, Performance, Standards

Safari 5 got out of the gate a touch early as the PR team shot their new release out before anything else was out there: “Safari continues to lead the pack in performance, innovation and standards support,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 08 2010 04:28 AM
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On Internet Explorer

Web developers always complain about the amazing ways in which different versions of the infamous Internet Explorer break their websites. Currently there are three versions of IE found in the wild to give nightmares for any decent web developer –
 
Niyaz PK
Jun 05 2010 11:42 AM
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Apple HTML5 microsite touts standards, but only works on Safari

Apple has a new microsite touting HTML5 standards, yet when you hit the site in a browser other than Safari and try to run a sample you get: Erm. Hmm. Faruk has it right: The point isn’t that all of the examples should work in all browsers, but
 
Dion Almaer
Jun 04 2010 11:50 AM
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Mozilla Releases 64-bit (x64) Testing Version of Firefox 4.0 for Windows, Linux and Mac

As we all know Mozilla is currently working on the upcoming version 4.0 of its web browser Firefox and continuously releasing Alpha builds for testing purposes: Mozilla Puts “Aero Glass” Back in the Latest Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 Preview Build Its still
Jun 03 2010 10:38 AM
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Google Chrome 5.0 Stable Released

Google has released 5.0 version of its web browser "Chrome". Here is what the Official Google Blog says: After a bit of evolution and lots of work from the team, we're thrilled to introduce a new stable version of Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux. Since
May 26 2010 01:42 PM
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Mozilla Puts “Aero Glass” Back in the Latest Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 Preview Build

As we all know Mozilla Firefox 3.7 version is under development and an Alpha build can be downloaded using Mozilla FTP. Recently Mozilla features Aero Glass in Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4 Preview build but it was removed in later builds due to several GUI bugs.
May 25 2010 02:02 AM
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MozBackup – A Free Firefox Settings Lifesaver

No doubt, you’ve invested much time and energy in setting up your Firefox bookmarks (especially bookmarks), extensions, add-ons, and other personal settings that work just for you, and which provide you with an effective, and efficient, browsing
May 23 2010 11:13 PM
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CoolPreviews – You Ruined My Day!

OK, maybe “you ruined my day”, is an exaggeration, but….. Let me start by saying I love CoolPreviews – a Picture-in-a-Picture free Browser add-on, that lets me preview links and rich media content, without clicking the link, or leaving my current page. I
May 22 2010 09:54 PM
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Download Mozilla Firefox Browser for Google Android Mobile Phones

If you use a Google Android mobile phone but miss your favorite web browser "Mozilla Firefox" in it, here is a great news for you. Mozilla has started working on a mobile version of Mozilla Firefox for Android. Currently a nightly build is available for
May 22 2010 06:59 AM
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Download Free “Microsoft Download Manager” from Microsoft

Microsoft has released a free download manager for Windows. "Microsoft Download Manager" enables you to download files from the Internet in a more reliable and faster way than using a browser alone. Using the Download Manager makes it easier to download
May 22 2010 05:01 AM
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Opera Mini approved by Apple for the App Store

On the heels of a controversial update to the iPhone SDK’s license agreement, Apple has unexpectedly approved Opera Mini for iPhone for distribution in its App Store. Opera had previously announced that it had submitted its browser to the App Store
 
Peter Chng
May 22 2010 04:58 AM
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Download “Firefox Sync” From Mozilla Labs to Automatically Synchronize Bookmarks, Passwords, Preferences, History and Tabs

If you are a Mozilla Firefox user and use 3rd party add-ons like Xmarks, etc to synchronize your bookmarks and other things, now its time to forget all of them and start using official "Firefox Sync" released by Mozilla Labs. "Firefox Sync" was known as
May 21 2010 07:27 PM
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Detecting extensions in the browser and beyond

Daniel Buchner of Jetpack has a post on Indexing and Auto-Detecting Browser Extensions on the Web. He discusses how search engines themselves could show interesting information on extensions: Now search engines could go back to being app stores ;) Beyond
 
Dion Almaer
May 14 2010 08:16 AM
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Google Pack Software Revisited – The Good, the Bad and the Useless

The applications offered in Google Pack are an interesting compilation of freebies – some of them are quite useful and worthwhile adding to your system. On the other hand, some of them are not only useless, but are potentially hazardous to your system
Apr 22 2010 06:07 PM
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Firefox 3.6.3 Released – Fixes Critical Security Issue

If you don’t have Firefox’s automatic update feature turned on, then you need to manually update your version immediately, to Version 3.6.3. According to Mozilla “A memory corruption flaw leading to code execution was reported by security researcher Nils
Apr 02 2010 06:11 PM
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Latest Mozilla Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4 Preview Build Supports Full Aero Glass in Windows Vista and 7

Recently we told you that Mozilla Firefox 3.7 Alpha 2 Preview build came with new icons and graphics as shown in Mozilla Wiki mockups. Now another good news for Firefox and Aero Glass lovers! The latest Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4 Preview build supports Aero
Mar 25 2010 10:30 PM