Opera has released the latest version of two different mobile web browsers - Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11. Both new versions are now available for most mobile platforms excluding the Apple iOS versions. The Mini 6 is meant for feature phones while the Mobile 11 for the smartphones and tablets.
Read MoreMozilla Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo is now available as a release candidate in more than 10 languages from the Android Market and for download on your Maemo device. This release offers faster scrolling, better responsiveness with Firefox Sync and improves the overall user experience of Firefox.
Read MoreSometimes Web standards can converge quickly. The W3C standard for Navigation Timing started about six months ago in the newly chartered Web Performance Working Group. Navigation Timing is the first specification from this this W3C working group, and in only six months went from a Working Draft to Candidate Recommendation.
IE9 can now play HTML5 video in both the industry-standard H.264 format and the newer WebM format. With the WebM Project’s release of WebM Components for IE9 (Preview), Windows customers running IE9 can play WebM videos in Web pages. IE9 is the only browser today committed to supporting both formats directly.
Read MoreMozilla posted the first builds of the Release Candidate of Firefox on its FTP servers: Time for a first comparison with IE9 RC, its main rival. How fast is Mozilla's Firefox 4 RC1? Mozilla's Firefox 4 RC has not been released, at least not officially.
It's not the first browser to get its own app store, but the Opera Mobile Store is another app store. The Store has just launched and is powered by Appia, which offers a white-label app store system for carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, as well as some top-tier handset manufacturers.
Read MoreMozilla released the latest beta for Firefox 4 on Android and Maemo and the browser is well positioned for the army of tablets about to hit the market. Mozilla said its latest mobile Firefox version is available. In many respects, Mozilla has been an also-ran on the mobile front, but is playing catch up quickly as Android grows.
Read MoreMicrosoft and Mozilla traded barbs in a dispute over what constitutes a "modern" Web browser. The competitive friction is starting to heat up because the Redmond software giant and Silicon Valley nonprofit are preparing to release the next major versions of their respective Web browsers.
Opera's Desktop Team announced that the first snapshot of Opera 11.10, codename “Barracuda,” has finally arrived! In this build, Core has been upgraded from version 2.7.62 to 2.8.99, which is a pretty big step forward. With this Core upgrade comes the implementation of the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).
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