Monthly Archives: February 2011

Mike Beltzner to leave Mozilla After Firefox 4.0 Release

Mike Beltzner, the Director of Firefox at Mozilla, has announced to leave Mozilla after the release of Firefox 4.0 later this month. Continue reading →

Block Websites in Google Search

Google has recently released a browser extension for Chrome users, which allows them to block selected domain names in Google search results. Continue reading →

Tracking Protection in Internet Explorer 9

Tracking Protection is the latest mechanism of IE to offer users a convenient way to block and allow third-party content and sharing information with such sites, and hence opt-out of the tracking using browser cookies and other means. Continue reading →

Internet Explorer 9 RC Available for Download

The Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate is available for download now. IE 9 is next version of Microsoft’s browser with many new features including support for HTML5 and Add-on Performance Advisor. Continue reading →

One Hundred Million Users of Opera on Mobile

Another landmark for Opera: Opera Mini and Opera Mobile have over one hundred million users now. According to estimations, Opera Mini had 90.36 million and Opera Mobile had 15 million users in January 2011. This means that there are over 100 million users worldwide who have Opera browsers on their handsets. Continue reading →

OperaWatir and OperaDriver

Opera Software, the company behind Opera browser, has launched two open source tools for the developers. These tools, OperaWatir and OperaDriver, help in developing and testing websites and applications. Continue reading →

Missing Feature in Opera Mini (and a temporary solution)

I don’t know why this is missing in Opera Mini. May be this is because of its cross-platform support, or something else. A temporary solution to share web pages is using bookmarklets. And, if you don’t like using separate bookmarklets for different services, you can try a simple service created by me. Continue reading →

Chrome Instant

Once you have enabled Chrome Instant, page loading starts as you type URL in the address bar. Also, the search results and in-line predictions appear instantly as you type query in the omnibar. Continue reading →

What is a Chrome web app?

Google Chrome stable channel has just hit version 9. This update is available on all platforms. Chrome 9 has got many security fixes and exciting Chrome Web Store. Chrome users can install web apps from this gallery. Continue reading →