Mozilla is moving towards a more intuitive and visually appealing Firefox experience while browsing on Android mobile devices. The new version of the browser for tablets is designed to satisfy any user preferences regarding the landscape. You can also take all the things you've been doing on desktop for years such as bookmarks and browsing history and move them to the tablet.
Mozilla released an update to Firefox. The new version of the browser
Firefox 9 comes with great performance improvements for desktops and an
entirely new look for Android according to the company. Now sites that
heavily rely on JavaScript like Web apps or ones that render games,
video, and 3D graphics will render much faster thanks to the new
JavaScript improvement called Type Inference.
Mozilla and Google are renewing their partnership with a new search deal. According to the terms of the agreement Google would be the default search engine in Firefox for the next three years. The deal ends the period of uncertainty for Mozilla, but the company still haven't announced the specific terms of this commercial agreement.
Read MoreA review says Google Chrome 16 is a little slower, but still faster than the rest of the browsers. The latest Chrome version 16 comes with two new features. Now you can print any web page to any Google Cloud Print printer you’re allowed to use and also sync multiple users to one copy of Chrome.
Read MoreThis year Google has released 8 major updates to its browser as in January Google Chrome was on version 8 and now version 16 is already available. With two new packages every calendar quarter it seems that Google is innovating at lightning speed while its rivals plod along. But according to some experts the rapidly incrementing version numbers is in fact a version number inflation.
Read MoreA research made by StatCounter found that Google Chrome 15 is the world's most popular browser. According to the results 23.6 percent of the browsers tracked by its global system were Chrome 15, while Internet Explorer 8 accounted for 23.5 percent. But when all versions of IE and Chrome are taken into consideration IE is the actual winner.
Microsoft will begin to automatically update its Internet Explorer browser starting 2012. The upgrade will come together with the automatic Windows update if it's enabled. According to Microsoft the reason for this change is security as the newer versions of IE have proven to deliver consistent security improvements.
Read MoreThree free Firefox add-ons automatically back up the text which you type while entering data in web forms so that you won't lose it if the the page freezes or you accidentally close it. If you want to be able to recover your web form data you can choose between Lazarus: Form Recovery, Textarea Cache and Clippings.
Read MoreUntil now VMware has been offering development platforms for Java and Ruby and apps for other JVM languages and frameworks. With its latest update VMware Cloud Foundry cloud platform already supports .Net. The company took this step only a day after Microsoft announced plans for supporting open-source tools on the Windows Azure cloud platform.
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