web browsers

Occupy Flash Calls for Disabling Flash in Desktop Browsers

Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 11/22/2011 - 11:39

Adobe had recently given up on Flash Player for mobile. Now some developers who claim to have worked for Adobe and have never coded for any of Adobe’s competitors, have come together to disable Flash in web browsers.


 

It's not just mobile -- Adobe is abandoning Flash on TVs as well

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 11/09/2011 - 16:29

The TV app market is incredibly fragmented, but Adobe's Flash won't provide a solution. The company confirmed that like mobile, it will no longer focus on porting the Flash plugin into web browsers on CE devices, but thinks developers should build native apps instead.


 

Gate One brings open source SSH to HTML5 browsers

Linux Today  Fri, 10/14/2011 - 15:07

The H Open: "Version 0.9 of Gate One, an open source terminal emulator for HTML5 web browsers, has been released"


 

Alternative Web Browsers for Linux

Linux Today  Mon, 10/03/2011 - 10:02

Starry Hope: "This is not a comprehensive list of Linux web browsers, just 10 that we liked."


 

Is Chrome More Secure Thanks to Adobe?

Linux Today  Wed, 08/24/2011 - 17:00

eSecurityPlanet: For as long as there have been Web browsers, there have been debates about which browser is the most secure.


 

Mozilla adds Home Dash visual browser search to Firefox 4 Beta

Linux Today  Sun, 01/30/2011 - 17:04

Geek.com: "When web browsers were first made available you used to have to open a new browser window for every page you wanted to view.

At the time it wasn't really an issue, but then the web got more popular and you wanted multple pages open at the same time all the time, so browsers introduced tabs and everyone was happy again"


 

Microsoft's dwindling market share

Linux Today  Sun, 10/10/2010 - 17:02

ZDNet: "What has been interesting is the amount of market share that Microsoft has been losing in various areas over the past few years.

In web browsers, phones, and even desktop operating systems."


 

BitTorrent Apps Arrive, But What’s in Store?

TorrentFreak  Thu, 09/09/2010 - 14:01

Today, BitTorrent Inc. officially debuts the BitTorrent Apps platform in a non-Beta client. The company chose the smaller BitTorrent Mainline client over their leading brand uTorrent for the release, giving 14 million users access to their App platform.

The question is, however, how big the demand for Apps among BitTorrent users will be.

After Vuze and uTorrent, the BitTorrent Mainline client is the third most-used BitTorrent client in the western world based on the number of active users.


 

Microsoft has started rolling out its browser ballot

Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:40

It's probably not a "phishing attack": Microsoft Windows users in Europe are now starting to get a screen that offers them a choice of web browsers, as a result of an anti-trust settlement with the European Commission.


 

Alternative Browsers: Beyond Chrome and Firefox

Linux Today  Fri, 02/05/2010 - 15:32

Linux Magazine: "Looking for a new flavor of Web browser? If the mainstream favorites aren’t doing the trick, or you just want to test drive something new, we take a look at several of the “alternative” Web browsers for the Linux desktop."