When you think of browser gaming, you might think of MiniClip; tiny flash games which were basically Angry Birds before, well, Angry Birds. But recently we've seen some amazing stuff using just browsers. Now you can run the shockingly gorgeous Epic Citadel in Firefox with just HTML5. Wow. Read More >>
Mozilla is enlisting Samsung to help bring its new web rendering tech to market, with the smartphone giant helping to push its "advanced technology Web browser engine" Servo, built on Mozilla's own Rust coding language. Mozilla and Samsung will bring the new browser engine to ARM powered mobile devices running Android, perhaps heralding the beginning of Samsung's attempt to de-Google Android a little. [Mozilla via The Register] Read More >>
News came this morning that Google's going to fork Webkit, producing a new rendering engine called Blink. According to the developers, that's going to be a great thing for speed, and hopefully for memory usage on the desktop. On the mobile though, at least on the iPhone, Chrome's not going to escape the clutches of Webkit, probably ever. Read More >>
Featured comment by g3f:
"With IE4/5/6 and Windows XP and 2000 it was quite heavily integrated into the Windows Explorer shell. There was always some hackery and workarounds to..." More »
Featured comment by tolpin:
"I did try that site first, but wasn't loading for some reason. Like you say, there are arguments each way, and i'm not sure which stat gives the trues..." More »
Tabs, tabs, tabs. They somehow grow like a virus in your browser window. The more squeeze in, the more you STRESS OUT. OneTab offers a simple solution. Read More >>
Featured comment by MarkusDarkus:
"I love how it goes on about saving memory. I mean, My biggest frustration is having only 8GB of RAM available to use to browse websites. /s" More »
Google Now is probably the best thing about Android -- an automatic and genuinely-useful digital assistant that spits out location and time-based information at a glance -- but now it's coming to your desktop via Chrome. After rumours and hints, Google Now's just popped up in the Chromium backend. It doesn't work for now, but it will, very soon, hopefully. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"The information just tends to go wacky, it will show me as all over the place. For some reason it picks out information at odd times and goes haywire ..." More »
One of the big boasts Opera's been making for years is that of the power of its mobile data compression routines, which shove web traffic through an optimisation process to lessen the eventual downloads over your phone's data link. Now Google's doing the same thing in the latest Android Chrome beta. Read More >>
Featured comment by JamieLawther:
"I don't see Windows Phone or Internet Explorer mentioned once here, do you? Whilst we're at it, Blackberry does too and has done for many years. Compl..." More »
Windows 7 users are finally getting Internet Explorer 10. They'll be auto-upgraded in a few weeks, but you can go ahead and download the updated browser starting today. Read More >>
Yeah, I know, we all use Chrome for iPhone now, but if you don't, did you know you can skip right to your browsing history by just holding the back button in mobile Safari? No, neither did I. Well, now you do. Apparently it works in a load of other browsers, and all other iOS devices too. [Guiding Tech via LifeHacker] Read More >>
It's probably fitting that Firefox, the open-source browser, is being tested on Ouya, the open source games console. Although Ouya (when it launches in March to Kickstarter backers) will run Android Jelly Bean and thus the perfectly good Chrome browser, full-on Firefox compatibility would be a boon. Don't hold your breath, though -- Mozilla devs say Firefox is "practically unusable" on the Ouya for now. [TechRadar] Read More >>
Featured comment by benjymous:
"Don't forget that the ouya controller has a laptop style touchpad on it, and Android natively supports mouse style input (if you plug a mouse in, many..." More »
Voice control has been the trend in phones for a while now, but it's not content to just stay there. The newest Chrome Beta 25 is introducing a Web Speech API, which means a talk-y future is on the horizon, hopefully. Read More >>
Google's popular Chrome browser joined Gmail in mysteriously crashing for a spell on Monday, with the cause being some dodgy server configurations that forced the desktop browser to suddenly quit. Read More >>
Featured comment by Smileyvirus:
"And that is why I like my beige box with it's own software that doesn't go tits up the moment a server somewhere dies. ^__^" More »
If you're stuck in a big city with no hopes of seeing more than a handful of lights in the night sky, you'll more than get your fill of celestial bodies with this mind-blowing site that puts 100,000 stars in your browser. For full enjoyment you'll need a capable system with a decent graphics card, and about three hours of free time tonight to fully explore the wonders in our local galaxy. [100,000 Stars via The Awesomer] Read More >>
After the launch of Windows 8 (previously the only place you could get some IE10-flavoured 'goodness') Microsoft's decided to spread the love to its Windows 7 brood. It's not an official launch just yet; still just a preview, but even Microsoft promises that it'll still "take other browsers to school". Oooh, Chrome, sounds like a challenge to me. [Microsoft] Read More >>
Featured comment by N3rd:
"I don't understand the IE hate. Sure IE8 was a bit crap for today's standards, but so was Chrome 1.0 back then.
IE10 on the other hand is pretty de..." More »
Rumours are flying that in a bid to get some original content, Amazon is close to pushing through a musical comedy about four interns working for a "Huffington Post-esque" website, a project that was previously dropped (and rightly so) by CBS in the US. What could possibly come of this? We thought long and hard about it, and here's what it might look like. It ain't pretty. Read More >>
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