Tag Archives: internet browser

Apple unveils Safari 6: goes well with your new Mountain Lion (update: Windows version absent)

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Apple’s web browser has joined its latest OS, and joins the dots on a raft of new features that we’ve been promised for a while. These include iCloud tabs and a new tab view — both Mountain Lion only — alongside a new smart search and unified searc…


Google to end support for cookie-free log-ins on mobile devices

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Chances are this won’t affect you but, just in case, we figured we’d give you a little heads up — Google will soon end app support for mobile browsers that don’t support cookies. This primarily means that older phones, most of them in Japan as the we…


Firefox 11 up for grabs now, Chrome migration and more dev tools in tow

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It’s only been a few weeks since the celebrated tin anniversary of Firefox hit the virtual streets, and now it’s taken on another numerical increment. Alongside the fullscreen apps and promises of fewer crashes from version 10, Firefox 11 now allows …


Chrome adopted by US State Department as optional browser, IE8 prepped for mid-March release (video)

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State department workers frustrated with their dated web browsers will get some relief very soon. At the latest town hall meeting, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was questioned on the update roll-out of secure, state-certified browsers and — pre…


RockMelt hits beta 5, makes Chrome’s Omnibox a gateway to Facebook

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Last year, when RockMelt picked up where Flock left off, deeply tying social services into the browser interface, we were understandably a bit skeptical. But, just over 13 months later the tricked out Chrome variant is still kicking and tacking on n…


Internet Explorer to start automatic upgrading across Windows 7, Vista and XP

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery right? Well, in an attempt to keep its tenuous grip on the browsing crown, it’s borrowing some tricks from its plucky upstart competitors. Microsoft’s announced that Internet Explorer will now tie into futu…


StormDriver social web app gets alpha release, booming launch video

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You’re not really reading this. Okay, you are reading this, but the problem — we’re told — is that you’re reading it like a little Pac-Man trapped in a blind maze, in which all the other Pac-People surfing this page are hidden from view. Don’t you…


Android Browser leapfrogs Opera Mini, but Safari increases its lead

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Web browser warriors have some more statistical firepower to play with, now that Net Applications has released the latest usage figures for mobile browsers. Google’s vaguely titled Browser has inched up from a 16.3 percent share last month to 18.7…


Nintendo’s eShop plans: premium DLC, game demos, smartphone shopping, relevancy

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Nintendo’s latest earnings report may be a litany of woe, but at least the outfit’s semi-annual financial results briefing bore good news: the 3DS eShop is about to get a kick in the pants. Today’s 3DS store gets the job done, but it’s hampered by d…