Filed under browser, firefox, Firefox 8, Software and Add-ons, Twitter by Jude Cavale
If you had been using Mozilla Firefox 7 and cursed how slow it is, well help is here. Firefox 8 would be hitting the shelves on November 8th and promises to be faster, slicker and more efficient in using up your computer’s resources.
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You’re developing a new website and have decided to use some CSS3 and HTML5, now that many of the new specifications are gaining widespread support. As you’re coding the theme and thinking of how much easier these new technologies are making your job, you decide to stop for a while and test in other browsers, feeling a bit guilty for getting carried away and having forgotten to do so for a while. “Please work,” you whisper to your computer, while firing up all of the browsers you have installed. Browser A, check. You smile, feeling a bit relieved. Browser B, check. Your smile widens, and you start to feel better already. Browser C, “FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU…!”
Sound familiar? You might be surprised to hear that this is not necessarily your fault. With the competition in the browser market these days and the fast pace at which the new specifications are developing, browser makers are implementing new stuff in a hurry, sometimes without properly testing it. CSS3 and HTML5 are much more complex than their predecessors. The number of possible combinations of new features is huge, which leads to the most common cause of bugs: two (or more) things that weren’t tested together. As a result, developers these days stumble upon browser bugs much more frequently than they used to.
Continue Reading "Help The Community: Report Browser Bugs"Filed under browser, mobile browser, mobile mini, opera mini 5, opers, opers mini, review, Tech, Technology, tool, Tools by David Liu
Shortly after Apple announced that Opera Mini 5, the “super browser” from Google and Norwegian Opera Software company, was approved for their App Store, the downloads for the browser breached 1 million. The mobile browser, a staple in Java ME based phones as well as Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems, instantly turned into a [...]
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