Archive for October, 2008
Google’s Chrome: The Prototype for Tomorrow’s Browsers
Friday, October 31, 2008 23:30 No CommentsTweet Google’s Chrome: The Prototype for Tomorrow’s Browsers When Google introduced its Chrome browser on September 2, 2008, it began the foundation for an improved Internet experience—full of rich web applications—and launched the next round of commercial combat with chief rival Microsoft. If Google is going to compete against Microsoft for a share of the [...]
Netflix streaming for Macs and Firefox users
Friday, October 31, 2008 23:25 No CommentsTweet Netflix streaming for Macs and Firefox users In an unprecedented move, Netflix has made its Watch Instantly library (which is now much better than it used to be when it first launched — although it still has a way to go) available to Mac users and those who prefer to use Firefox instead of [...]
Social networkers Flock to new version
Friday, October 31, 2008 23:18 No CommentsTweet Social networkers Flock to new version first wrote about the Flock browser in the Network World Web Applications Alert newsletter in April last year and the company has just released Version 2.0, that adds to its list of impressive features. To recap, Flock is a Web browser based on Firefox (in this release it [...]
Screaming fast Mozilla browser Minefield gives a glimpse of Firefox’s future
Friday, October 31, 2008 23:15 No CommentsTweet Screaming fast Mozilla browser Minefield gives a glimpse of Firefox’s future I was really disappointed when Google released their Chrome web browser for Windows only. When it comes to browsers, I’ve tried them all. Right now I regularly switch between Firefox and the latest nightly build from Webkit (essentially Safari). Firefox has the extensibility [...]
Yahoo plug-in gives brains to browser search
Friday, October 24, 2008 10:52 No CommentsTweet Yahoo plug-in gives brains to browser search Yahoo has released a plug-in called Inquisitor that gives some new horsepower to the search box in Internet Explorer (download), Firefox (download), and Safari (download). Inquisitor is designed to help people get to information faster, according to a Yahoo Search Blog posting Wednesday. It suggests search terms [...]
