There’s only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already. I’m not quite sure what to make of the screenshots, nor the Google translation. The Developer Previews (Internet Explorer Test Drive) are not meant...
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Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Wednesday. Safari 5.0.1 is available from Apple as a free download for Windows and for Mac OS X (Leopard or better). Mac users can also find it in Software Update. This is an incremental upgrade, but it comes with one big new feature: Safari now...
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BlackBerry 6, the upcoming OS for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices, blows away the notion of the BlackBerry as the ugly, businesslike device you use to check your work email. It was announced in April, but RIM has released a new sneak peek video that shows off the browser, media player interface, and social...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project have released a public beta of a new Firefox extension that lets people encrypt their communications with Facebook, Twitter and other sites. The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension was inspired by Google’s encrypted Web search option, the EFF said in announcing the tool last week. In addition...
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Apple’s campaign to make native mobile apps seem sexier than the temperamental world of the mobile browser has been very successful. Tens of thousands of developers have been lured to the company’s App Store as a result. However, the rapid rise of a number of impressive client-side JavaScript frameworks make it possible to build...
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Google Chrome appears to be gearing up for another web-browser first — syncing extensions among your various Chrome installations. Chrome already syncs bookmarks, preferences and themes. Adding extensions makes for a universal browsing experience no matter what computer you happen to pick up. The feature isn’t part of Chrome just yet. In fact, Google...
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Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Monday afternoon. We’ve been testing it for close to a full day, and we’ve found that Safari 5 performs as advertised: It’s faster, more capable and well worth the upgrade. Safari 5 was launched rather quietly at the end of the first day of the...
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After speedy new updates to Opera and Google Chrome, Safari’s looking pretty slow these days. Fortunately for Apple, Safari 5 might be ready to go at Apple’s developer conference, WWDC, later this week. Although the focus of WWDC looks like it will mostly be mobile — that impending new iPhone and the just-released iPad...
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Apple posted a showcase of “HTML5 and web standards” on its website Thursday that highlights the level of support for the emerging standard in the company’s Safari and Mobile Safari browsers. It’s nice to see Apple (or anyone for that matter) talking about HTML5 and mentioning more than just video. The site showcases HTML5...
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Yesterday’s release of Google’s Chrome 5 internet browser made it even more viable a Safari replacement than ever (if you can get over the design niggles, that is), but if a rather sly hint from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber is anything to go by, Apple may attempt to match Chrome and Firefox’s most interesting...
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In the year and a half since it first emerged, Google’s Chrome browser has matured from a thinner-than-air experiment that only ran on Windows into a stable, full-featured browser that works on all major operating systems and is available in 50 languages. No longer just the new kid on the block, Chrome is now...
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Microsoft has confirmed earlier reports that Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will not run on XP. That’s prompted speculation that the company may be using the browser as a way to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 7. Some sources speculated that a future update to either the browser or operating system might alter the...
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Everywhere you turn these days, there’s a PC or mobile phone that you can use to access the web. But devices that aren’t yours — whether at a friend’s house or a public place like a library, hotel or a cafe — are a privacy risk, because anyone can see what you’ve done online...
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