Tag Archives : Web browser

U.S. regulators Federal Trade Commission is likely to impose a hefty US $ 22.5 million penalty on Google for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari web browsers users in order to serve targeted ads. Google was allegedly  using a special code to bypass the settings and install cookies on users’ computers even when such actions were supposed to be blocked by the browser. According [...]

Firefox 4 Beta now available for Mobile Mozilla’s Firefox 4 beta  has come to Android in beta form, it was released for Windows and Mac OS X in July this year. The browser has been through a ton of updates and fixes over the last few weeks. Firefox 4 Beta includes Firefox Sync to create a seamless Web browsing experience between desktop and mobile. With Firefox Sync, you can take your browsing [...]

Kindle for the Web Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size [...]

IE 9 Microsoft’s is all geared up  to release Internet Explorer 9, the new version of Internet Explorer browser to all and sundry  today. IE9 Beta is reported to be a beta that’s technically complete, so we shouldn’t have much to fear when the download is available later today. We are waiting to see how it will stand up to Firefox 4.0 which is also in beta. “Web browsing [...]

Apple Safari icon After releasing new hardware yesterday Apple has today debuted Safari 5.0.1 which addresses a number of issues with the initial release, including the problem with black backgrounds appearing when generating mail attachments with scripts, and the potential security vulnerability with autofill. Apple  has also flipped the switch on Safari Extensions with a formal introduction [...]

Image by Las Valley 702 via Flickr Google’s  annual developer conference which started on Wednesday at Moscone West, San Francisco bought news of  an all new web apps store for its Chrome web browser.  The Chrome Web Store is slated to debut later this year. Chrome’s online apps store will offer different apps for the web browser. Currently, there are no apps on the official website [...]

Opera has announced that it is set to release the first edition of Opera 10, codenamed Peregrine, the browser is alleged to offer an assortment of new features, including compression technology that is said to be 40% faster than it’s predecessor (Opera 9.6). Opera 10 has also got a new tab design, “we introduce a resizable tab bar. Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your [...]