Unhandled Perception

Link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

RockMelt: http://www.rockmelt.com/

The Google Chrome Developer Tools provide an integrated environment for debugging, optimizing, and understanding a web application, or website, running in Google Chrome. The developer tools are developed partly through the open source project, WebKit, where the tools are called Web Inspector.

Getting Started:

Link: http://www.chromium.org/devtools

Today, we’re releasing a new stable version of Chrome that is even faster and more streamlined. Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance. We’ve also been working on simplifying the “chrome” of Chrome. As you can see, we took the already minimalist user interface and stripped it down a bit more to make it easier to use. We combined Chrome’s two menus into one, revisited the location of the buttons, cleaned up the treatment of the URL and the Omnibox, and adjusted the color scheme of the browser to be easier on the eyes.

Link: http://chrome.blogspot.com/

Get more global stats: http://gs.statcounter.com/…

Firefox 4 Beta includes an updated Windows interface that’s sleeker and easier to use. (Mac & Linux are coming soon!).

Link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

Install multiple apps at once without toolbars or clicking Next.

1. Pick your favorite software below.
2. Click “Get Installer” and run it.
3. You’re done!

Excellent way to get your system all setup for web design / development.  Click through the applications you want, download the custom made installer and install the apps.  Couldn’t be easier.

Link: http://ninite.com/

In tests displayed on the Internet Explorer 9 testing center Microsoft is claiming IE9 beats all other browsers in every test they performed.  Why do I doubt that.  MS tweaked the tests to ‘allow’ IE9 to perform better.  Yeah, I think I’ll wait for some independent tests.

Link: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/

What’s new in Safari 5:

• Safari Reader: Read online articles in a continuous, clutter-free view.
• Greater HTML5 Support: Safari now offers even more support for HTML5 features.
• Better Performance: An enhanced Nitro Engine lets you browse the web at blazing speeds. DNS prefetching and improved caching.
• Bing Search: Safari gives you another search option with built-in Bing search.
• Safari Developer Program: Customize Safari with extensions you create using web standards.

Big week for Apple.

Link: http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html

A complete list of the User Agent strings in use by Firefox. Why would you want a complete list? Who knows, but here it is – http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Firefox/.

If you visit the site’s homepage your User Agent string will be displayed to you and broken down into its parts.

Link: http://www.useragentstring.com/

Microsoft is pushing really hard to get you to scrap IE6 and start using their latest browser, IE8.

When Internet Explorer 6 was launched in 2001, it offered cutting–edge security – for the time. Since then, the Internet has evolved and the security features of Internet Explorer 6 have become outdated.

With the latest state–of–the–art security features, Internet Explorer 8 is designed to cope with today’s modern cyber crime. In fact, research studies prove it.

In fact there is an entire website for the push.  I know its Australia but I couldn’t find a US counterpart and figured the push is going to be worldwide at some point.  Veign still sees about 16% of our IE visitors using IE6.

The Opera browser of course:

ChromeCacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Google Chrome Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last accessed time, Expiration time, Server name, Server response, and more.

Link: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chrome_cache_view.html

Before WebKit can render a web page, it needs to load the page and all of its subresources from the network. There are many layers involved in loading resources from the web. In this post, I’ll focus on explaining how WebCore, the main rendering component of WebKit, is involved in the loading process.

Link: http://webkit.org/blog/1188/…

Link: http://vimium.github.com/