Microsoft Releases Web Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2
While many Web savvy folks today run Firefox or Google’s Chrome browser, that doesn’t mean that Microsoft’s Net Explorer is dead. The software giant has just released another platform preview of Web Explorer 9 (IE9) in the design of IE9 Preview 2 and that latest incarnation scores 68 out of 100 on the Acid3 pop [...]
Internet Explorer market share dips under 60 percent mark
Internet Explorer’s browser market share has taken a slow but certain dip to go below the 60% mark for the first date in history, which is a far cry from the 95% figure that we saw all the way back in 2003. Firefox retains its second position with 24.5%, while Google’s Chrome is a fast [...]
Firefox Ported To webOS
Take a good hard look at the picture above, and when you’re done rubbing your eyes; you’ll have to believe that you’re actually seeing Mozilla’s Firefox running on a Palm Pre. that is the work of Dave Townsend, a developer for Mozilla that works on Firefox (amongst other projects). The Firefox version in question here [...]
Firefox To Get Direct2D Hardware Acceleration Support
While graphics cards aren’t the first thing you think about for computers that don’t focus on gaming or media playback, it might become more relevant to the casual Net surfer in the future. Mozilla is currently busy working on coming up with a new Direct2D feature for Firefox, which would offer the popular browser hardware [...]
iPhone, Safari, IE8 and Firefox fail shield test
A non-jailbroken iPhone, Safari running on Snow Leopard and World Wide Web Explorer 8 and Firefox on Windows 7 were no match for shield analysts at the annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest safety measure show, where none of them stood up to the tryout, having being hacked and fully compromised without even having physical [...]
Mozilla Stops Development For Firefox On Windows Mobile
This is probably a bit of poor news to folks who run Windows Mobile out there. It seems that Mozilla is officially killing the development of its Windows Mobile version of Firefox, which actually shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, considering the fact the Windows Phone 7 Series is a whole new ball game. [...]