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  Mozilla readies app marketplace for public beta

  Mozilla Marketplace, which is Mozilla's entrant in the online application store arena, is set to move to a public beta stage in a few weeks, a company official said on Tuesday.

  By Paul Krill | 16 May, 2012 20:12

  Tags: Xamarin, web browsers, software, mozilla, mobile technology, Mobile Development, mobile apps, Microsoft, javascript, html5, applications, application development

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  Eclipse readies browser-based IDE

  The Eclipse Foundation for open source development tools is eyeing July as the release date for the 1.0 version of its Orion browser-based IDE for building Web applications, which will be discussed at this week's EclipseCon 2012 conference in Reston, Va.

  By Paul Krill | 26 March, 2012 21:12

  Tags: application development, applications, cloud computing, eclipse, Eclipse Foundation, internet, javascript, open source software, software, web browsers, web development

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  Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful

  What a difference a year makes. A year ago, I was intrigued by Motorola Mobility's Lapdock, a laptop without a brain into which you plugged a Motorola Android smartphone to run it on a full-size screen, with full-size keyboard, trackpad, SD card slot, and USB and HDMI ports for access to USB peripherals and mirrored screen display to a TV or monitor. A year ago, I saw the Lapdock as a wonderful innovation that presaged an era in which a smartphone is your main -- and perhaps only -- computing device, plugging into resources when needed to scale up to a desktop PC.

  By Galen Gruman | 28 February, 2012 22:11

  Tags: Android, applications, cloud computing, Computer Hardware, consumer electronics, consumerization of IT, firefox, hardware systems, internet, laptops, mobile technology, Motorola, Motorola Mobility, smartphones, software, web browsers

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  Fast Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox

  Although computers running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 have become more common, there aren't many Windows-compatible browsers compiled to run on 64-bit processors. (The exception for now has been Internet Explorer 9.)

  By Howard Wen | 14 February, 2012 00:25

  Tags: applications, firefox, firefox nightly, mozilla, operating systems, pale moon, software, waterfox, web browsers, Windows, Windows 7

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  Google Chrome remixes worth trying out

  Once upon a time there was a browser named Firefox -- an open source project that many people happily picked up and spun off into their own versions with names like Iceweasel and Pale Moon. Now the same thing has happened with Google Chrome. Its open source incarnation, Chromium, has become the basis for a slew of spinoffs, remixes, and alternative versions.

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 25 January, 2012 22:15

  Tags: applications, Google, open source software, software, web browsers

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  Google boosts garbage collection for Chrome browser

  Google is offering a new incremental garbage collector for its Chrome browser to "dramatically" improve the interactive performance of Web applications, the company said on Monday.

  By Paul Krill | 23 November, 2011 02:09

  Tags: application development, applications, Google, javascript, software, web browsers

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  Opera responds to Amazon's Cloud-powered 'Silk' browser

  One of to features of Amazon's recently announced Kindle Fire tablet drawing attention is its WebKit-based 'Silk' Web browser. What makes Silk different from most browsers is its 'split browser' approach: Putting together complicated Web pages in Amazon's Cloud infrastructure before downloading the end result to the browser.

  By Rohan Pearce | 30 September, 2011 10:17

  Tags: amazon, amazon ec2, cloud computing, opera, privacy, security, web browsers

• The big, bad browser quiz

  Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- you know the names of these Web browsers, but do you really know them?

  By Tim Greene | 05 September, 2011 12:33

  Tags: web browsers

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  13 features that make each Web browser unique

  Many cynical users assume Web browsers do little more than dutifully render HTML. The content is the most important part, they say, so it makes little difference which browser you use.

  By Peter Wayner | 02 May, 2011 20:08

  Tags: applications, firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE), opera, safari, software, web browsers

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  Chrome tips users to dangerous Windows downloads

  Google on Tuesday said it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser.

  By Gregg Keizer | 14 April, 2011 11:17

  Tags: chrome, google web browser, security, web browsers

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  Firefox 4 speeds past 20 million downloads

  In the first week of its release, the Firefox Web browser has already tallied more than 20 million downloads with a real-time heat map recording the activity.

  By Rodney Gedda | 25 March, 2011 09:58

  Tags: firefox, firefox 4, Google Chrome, IE9, mozilla, Mozilla Firefox 4, web browsers

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  iOS 4.3 boosts first-gen iPad browser speed by 18 per cent

  With all eyes on the iPad 2 that becomes available tomorrow at 5 p.m. in each time zone, Apple has released its iOS 4.3 update for the first-gen iPad, iPhone 3G S, non-Verizon Wireless iPhone 4, and recent iPod Touch models. InfoWorld.com ran the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser tests on a first-gen iPad with iOS 4.2 and with iOS 4.3 to see if Apple's claims of a turbocharged JavaScript engine were justified.

  By Galen Gruman | 10 March, 2011 23:13

  Tags: Apple, applications, hardware systems, iOS, iPad, laptops, mobile technology, safari, software, tablet PCs, twitter, Verizon Wireless, web browsers

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  HTML5 in the Web browser: HTML5 forms

  The changes and enhancements to the form tags are some of the most extensive amendments to the HTML5 standard, offering a wide variety of options that once required add-on libraries and a fair amount of tweaking. All of the hard work that went into building self-checking widgets and the libraries that ensure the data is of the correct format is now being poured into the browser itself. The libraries won't be necessary -- in theory -- because the work will be done seamlessly by all browsers that follow the standard. In practice, we'll probably continue to use small libraries that smooth over slight inconsistencies.

  By Peter Wayner | 10 March, 2011 03:01

  Tags: application development, applications, html5, software, web browsers

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  Google advances Native Client Web browser technology

  Google on Friday began offering a revamped SDK for its Native Client open source technology for running Web applications that execute native code inside a browser.

  By Paul Krill | 19 February, 2011 12:42

  Tags: application development, applications, Developer World, Google, software, web browsers

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  Google’s new Chrome billboard ads: Fast thinking on a slow medium

  Google has stepped up its "Chrome browser is fast" marketing campaign with a new direction – plain old printed billboards hoisted around Sydney train stations.

  By Rodney Gedda | 16 February, 2011 11:52

  Tags: advertising, advertising campaign, Google, Google Chrome, marketing, web browsers