Tag Archives: browsers

Qupzilla – the Best Browser You’ve Never Heard of?

Qupzilla web browser in Ubuntu 11.10

With the browser market dominated by Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer you could be forgiven for thinking that small browsers have little to offer. But Qupzilla, a multi-platform Qt-based web-browser, is worth taking for a spin. It boasts features comparable to Chrome and Firefox, yet uses less resources than either. The webkit wonder, developed by Czech Linux user [...]

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Midori Gets Faster Startup, GTK3 Improvements in Lastest Release

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A new release of lightweight webkit web browser Midori is available for download.

See what’s new and learn how to upgrade by clicking on the ‘read more’ button below…

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Opera 11.60 Released with New Look Mail Interface

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A new version of web-browser Opera has been made available for download.

The update, which bumps the browser up to version 11.60, comes with the usual smattering of improved web standards support, bug fixes and rendering engine updates – but that’s not all…

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Firefox 11 Alpha to Land December 20th; Will Bring Speed-Dial, Chrome Migration

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The first alpha release of Firefox 11 has been set for December 20th. Arriving just in time for xmas, the alpha release could see the debut of a number of goodies scheduled to ship in Firefox 11. These include: – ‘Web app’ support Chrome/ium settings migration Redesigned HTML5 media controls New tab page/speed-dial Improved look [...]

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Midori Update Brings Revamped Speed Dial, Bug Fixes

A new release of lightweight webkit web-browser Midori is now available with improvements made to the applications’ stability, looks and performance.

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Browser Round-up: Firefox 7 Beta 5, Google Chrome 14, and Opera 12 Pre-Alpha

What’s been happening in web browser land over the past seven days? Let’s take a quick look… Google Chrome 14 – New Stable Release The latest stable release of Google Chrome – now sitting at version 14 – was pushed out at the weekend, adding: – Web Audio API allowing for various ‘fancy’ audio effects to [...]

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Web-browser Midori Adds Unity Support and Neat ‘Next Page’ Feature,

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Unity support is one of several changes making up the latest release of lightweight web browser Midori.

Screenshots and installation information are tucked inside.

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Chrome Now Second Most Popular Browser in UK, Same for UK Linux Users?

With todays news that Google’s Chrome web browser has overtaken Firefox as the second most used web-browser in the UK I turned to OMG! Ubuntu!’s visitor stats for UK Linux users to see if, here at least, that trend is also reflected.

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Midori 0.3.6 brings welcome fixes, small speed bump

Lightweight webkit web browser Midori got a minor version bump yesterday – but what’s new and what’s improved?

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Give Firefox 4 an Internet Explorer 9 makeover

For all the sins that Microsoft’s browser has inflicted upon the world – and there are many – ther i’s no denying that the interface of its latest iteration – Internet Explorer 9 – has hit all the right notes design wise; the clean, compact and content-considerate makeover has given a pretty face to an otherwise ugly browser.

Firefox users wishing to “mimic” the look can do so with a little bit of CSS magic…

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Mozilla intend to ship Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 this year

Mozilla have revealed plans to put the Firefox development schedule on steroids. For 2011, they intend, will see the browser bunny-hop from version 3.6 all the way to version 7.0.

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This Ubuntu homepage replacement is slick and informative

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New and old Ubuntu users alike will find something to love in this colourful homepage replacement by Ryan Kelln.

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Social browser Rockmelt is coming to Linux – just not yet

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Rockmelt, the much hyped social web browser famously backed by by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, is heading to Linux – only not just yet.

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Enable ‘Instant’ site loading in Chromium daily build

The Chromium daily builds on Linux now offer up the option to instantly load websites as your enter the address in the URL bar.

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Zotero reference software heading to the desktop, more browsers

The open source reference management software Zotero is to see a standalone desktop application for Linux, Mac and Windows and support for more browsers.

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