Category Archives: browsers

BrowserPlus to become Open Source

The new BrowserPlus framework – a way of extending your browser capabilities – will become open source next year, which seems a sensible way to increase its adoption:

The big idea here is that we’ll have the whole platform open sourced by mid-next year, and as soon as possible we’ll have many of the services we’ve written open sourced, as well as the APIs needed to write new services. Our goal is to empower the community to contribute actual patches and new services – code to compliment the feedback.

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Microsoft considers WebKit for Internet Explorer

Wow.

Open source is interesting. Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.

AppleInsider | Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer

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JavaScript engine war hots up

Coming soon after the announcement of Google’s new Chrome browser and its V8 JavaScript engine, the WebKit project has now released details of SquirrelFish Extreme. An update to the never officially released SquirrelFish engine, the benchmarks against Safari 3.1 certainly look impressive. Other benchmarks also show it outperforming both V8 and Firefox 3.1’s TraceMonkey engine.

SquirrelFish Extreme uses four different technologies to deliver much better performance than the original SquirrelFish: bytecode optimizations, polymorphic inline caching, a lightweight “context threaded” JIT compiler, and a new regular expression engine that uses our JIT infrastructure.

Surfin’ Safari – Blog Archive » Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme

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Google bringing new browser to the party

Google have announced news of Chrome, a new open source Webkit-based browser. The central premise is that it has been designed from the ground-up to work efficiently with the demanding web applications of today’s web. In particular, it features a JavaScript engine called V8 which can utilise multiple processes, as opposed to the single-process engines that power Firefox and Safari.

As Google are emphasising performance, it will be interesting to compare their efforts with Safari’s new SquirrelFish JavaScript engine.

Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project

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Internet Explorer beta with new porn mode

Internet Explorer 8 Beta

The new beta of Internet Explorer 8 for Windows features a new feature called “InPrivate Browsing”. As Microsoft explain,

Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won’t accidentally find out.

🙂

Windows Internet Explorer 8: Home page

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Firefox 3 released: still looks dodgy on Mac

Using Firefox 3 is really a different experience from using OS X. It’s not Windows, it’s not OS X and it’s not Linux. It’s something else.

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Yahoo preview Web desktop platform

Today Yahoo are entering the world of Web desktops (“Webtops”) with BrowerPlus, a plugin for your browser that makes building rich applications a lot simpler.

Included is an example Flickr uploading application that allows you to drag and drop files from your desktop onto the browser.

BrowserPlus

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My favourite Safari Extension

Inquisitor is a fantastic search add-on for Safari, and it’s recently been updated to version 3. Basically, it enhances the Safari search box by suggesting results and allowing searches on sites other than Google. Pretty essential, I would say.

Inquisitor

Inquisitor

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Flock browser a real contender

It’s been about a year since I last looked at Flock, the “Social Web Browser”. In that time it’s matured into a very stable and useful application, perfect if you are into social networking and blogging. Some of the sites that it integrates with are:

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Twitter
  • Youtube

Flock

Flock

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Make Safari More Accessible from the Keyboard

To make it easier to navigate pages using the keyboard, go into Safari Preferences and under the Advanced tab, turn on “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”. Now you can use tab to go forward through links and form elements on a page, and shift-tab to go backwards. Follow a highlighted link simply by pressing return.

Safari Preferences for Tab highlight

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