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 From Speed Demos to demos of the latest in HTML, HTML5, the new IE Test Drive website lets you check out the power of IE9. Download IE9 First: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/ThankYou/Default.htmlThen give it a test drive: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Make sure to try this test drive (works in FireFox too): http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/...Labels: browsers, ie, microsoft
 For all you Chrome users out there. Link: http://savedelete.com/...Labels: browsers, google
- Support for a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox's appearance with a single click.
- Protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse.
- Open, native video can now be displayed full screen and supports poster frames.
- Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time.
- The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run asynchronously to speed up page load times.
- Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
- Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
- Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
- Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
Link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/Labels: browsers, firefox
 jReject provides a simple, robjust, light-weight way to display rejections based on a the browser, specific browser version, specific platforms, or rendering engine. Provides full customization of the popup. Uses no CSS file (by default), and can easily be used on page load or during a specific page event. Also provides a flexible way to beautifully and cleanly display custom browser alternatives in the popup. Using jReject you can block any browser from visiting your website. I would actually never do this. Why turn away anyone from your website just because of their browser preference. jReject: http://jreject.turnwheel.com/Labels: browsers, development, javascript, jquery
Mozilla's stated goal for its next version of Firefox, first and foremost, is a perceivable improvement in the time it takes to do things, not just render pages. We saw a big performance jump in JavaScript execution and page rendering in Firefox 3.5; but for 3.6, the developers want to apply the same level of improvement to responsiveness and process activation. Link: http://www.betanews.com/...Labels: browsers, firefox
There's a brand new beta for you to try out today. As always, we continue to focus on speed, and this beta release shows over 30% improvement on both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over our current stable channel release. We've also improved two of the most loved and most used features of Google Chrome: the New Tab page and the Omnibox. Plus, we decided to add a little bit of style by allowing you to deck out your browser with colors, patterns, and images. Link: http://chrome.blogspot.com/...Labels: browsers
 Internet Explorer 8 Demo Site - This site gives you the opportunity to test some of the new security, interoperability and advanced AJAX features in IE8 without having to search for sites or visit potentially dangerous sites. Not like I would switch as a long time, and very happy, Firefox user. Link: http://www.ie8demos.com/tryit/Labels: browsers, ie, microsoft
 Check out Opera's homepage: http://www.opera.com/Labels: browsers
Yup, that's right, IE8 is available today and that means I have to support another browser when developing websites. I just wish IE6's market share would drop enough so I could drop it from my list of supported browsers. Labels: browsers, design, development, ie, microsoft
 So close to not having to support FireFox 2.0 in web designs. Every time I get to drop a browser from support its a glorious day. My general rule of thumb is once browser usage dips below 1% or security patches are no longer issued than I drop support. IE6 is the browser I am most looking forward to dropping. Link: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/...Labels: browsers, design
 Opera released an alpha version of Opera 10 today, a first step toward the next major release of the popular cross-platform web browser. First and foremost, Opera 10 is looking to offer stiff competition with the blazing rendering engines in the upcoming Firefox release (Tracemonkey) and Google Chrome (V8) with an update to its rendering engine, Presto—which Opera claims offers a 30% speed boost over the previous version of the engine. But that's not all. Get the full tour at: http://lifehacker.com/5101934/...Labels: browsers
The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. I fear that the support may end but users won't switch - I still get 20%+ visitors using Firefox2. Not sure I can cross this browser off my list of browser which I design websites to render in. Link: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-250172.htmlLabels: browsers, firefox
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13 I am already seeing Chrome hit around 1% of my web traffic. Luckily Veign renders fine in Chrome and the website I checked, that I designed, work fine too. No worries for me, yet. Link: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-user-agent/Labels: browsers, google
- This browser is going to have AdSense hard-coded into a browser frame that I can’t delete, right?
- Hmm. Well, I bet you hard-code Google as the default search engine, don’t you? I’ll bet you can’t even select other search engines!
- Okay, but this browser is tracking everywhere I go and sending that information to
- Another browser? Geez, I’m a webmaster/search engine optimizer/front-end
- Clearly launching a web browser means that Google is losing its focus on core search quality, right?
- Does this mean that you don’t love/support Firefox or the Mozilla Foundation?
- Speaking of Macs and Linux, why no Mac/Linux support yet?
- This is going to be some buggy, crashing piece of beta download, isn’t it?
- Google has some selfish motivation for doing this, right? I’m sure that there’s some angle here--there’s gotta be?
- Will Google stop actively working on Google Chrome and let it stagnate after a few months?
- Dude, this anonymous commenter said that Google claims that they own everything you touch when you run Chrome! Should I be worried?
Read the answers at: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/Labels: browsers, google
Google just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow). Link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/...Chrome Link: http://www.google.com/chromeLabels: browsers, google
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