Will Apple Replace Google with Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine?
The tech industry is abuzz with gossip that Apple is seriously pissed at Google’s release of its own smartphone, the Nexus One. These two former close allies have gotten on each other’s nerves more and more and the latest blow was Google’s act of releasing its own phone. Apple considers this a direct challenge to its iPhone dominance. While Apple didn’t bat an eyelash when Google made the Android operating systems open source and freely available to all smart phone makers, the Cupertino-based company is no longer happy with Google’s foray into the smart phone business. On the same day that Google launched its smart phone, Apple retaliated by announcing it has acquired Quattro Wireless, the leading company for mobile phone advertising! This is an obvious slap to Google, Apple is evidently saying “we are getting ready to challenge your advertising business.” Apple has sold millions of its iPhone and iPod Touch (iTouch) models and it can obviously use Quattro Wireless to sell ad space effectively without Google’s support.
Apple to Replace Google With Bing as Default Search Engine?
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Firefox 3.6 Free Download Available and the New Firefox Browser is Faster!
What a big sweet surprise, the Mozilla geeks has came out with the new improved concoction of Firefox. As of January 21, 2010, citizens of planet earth can now download the Firefox 3.6 from Mozilla’s home page. I am impressed that after only 6 months since the release of version 3.5, we get a new spunky Firefox 3.6 version which we have anticipated as early as November 2009 (see Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Upcoming Features Include Personas Add-on).
I must confess, for the last 2 months I have been using Google Chrome most of the time since I found it faster than Firefox 3.5. I can run 15 tabs easy on Chrome compared with Firefox which can prove sluggish when more than 12 tabs are opened. Now that is going to change. I am defecting back to Firefox 3.6!
Today’s version release has a noticeably huge increase in performance speed. I tested it myself and I can proudly say it is as fast as Google Chrome 3.0.195.38. Perhaps Chrome is faster by a few milliseconds but it is insignificant. Firefox 3.6 comes with new features under the hood. The new UI sure looks better than the old one but Firefox version 3.6 has more to offer. For some of the more important new features in this release, read the summary of highlights after the jump.
Flock 2.5.6 Software Update Now Available
Flock 2.5.6 automatic software updates is now available. The 2.5.6 version of Flock web browser was released last January 5-6, 2010. However, many were unaware that Flock 2.5.6 was released because it was not on auto-update that time. After a month, Flock 2.5.6 is downloaded automatically upon going online using the web browser. We ourselves have just updated to 2.5.6 when the software update popped-up on our screen.
Flock 2.5.6 Software Update successfully installed.
Free Themes For Google Chrome Browser Version 3
There are lots of free artist themes for the Google Chrome 3.0.195.33. When we first used Chrome, we found it buggy and we stopped using it for a while. It just won’t satisfy our needs at that time. Up until now that free themes for Google Chrome browser are available for free download, we did not get interested in using it. We know for a fact it will take a while before Google Chrome browser gets in the zone. This is one software we’ll test extensively for security, speed and overall performance. But as of this writing, our vote of confidence goes to Opera 10 Turbo. Find out why through the link to our articles on Opera 10.
Snapshot of Free Google Chrome Browser Themes Gallery
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Upcoming Features Include Personas Add-on
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 is on its way probably because Firefox is so buggy (still) that it fails miserably in many aspects every after upgrade. This could be one of the reasons why Firefox updates come so quickly. Mozilla has to address lots of issues regarding stability of the open source browser. Some security issues in the past have been resolved by new ones come up as soon as the others are fixed (See Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 Update: List of Bug Fixes and Security Issues Addressed). So this is update is indeed a work in progress, a dedication only Mozilla Foundation can show.
Personas Add-on: For Firefox 3.0 upt to 3.6
Firefox 3.6 is slated for release in final form this year though there is no exact release date posted yet, with Firefox 3.7 in the first half of next year and 4.0 about a year from now. One of the major changes to be seen in 3.6 is the Personas add-on. This add-on will let people customize the appearance (look-and-feel) of the browser to their liking and taste. This is purely eye candy and this can be done also with reskinning.
SRWare Iron: Use the Safer Google Chrome Browser Alternative/Clone
Google’s Web browser Chrome is hailed on the net as one of the fastest browsers, having innovative features, simple and possessing a very intuitive interface. Unknown to many, Chrome also shares that same security vulnerabilities as the other browsers like Opera 10 Turbo, Firefox 3.5.4 and Internet Explorer 8, said several critics.
SRWare Iron Web Browser: A Google Chrome Clone?
To them, Chrome’s creation of unique user ID and the submission of entries to Google to generate suggestions either on the address bar or the search bar requires Google to provide the information and would definitely which can be recorded and kept for and the data mined forever.
Google Chrome, Opera 10 Turbo, Mozilla Firefox, IE8: Which is the Best Web Browser??
Google Chrome vs Opera 10 Turbo vs Mozilla Firefox vs Internet Explorer 8? Which is really the best web browser? This one is tough to answer. First off, when Firefox was updated to 3.54, I have found the update to be more of a headache than a convenience. Recurring problems like unresponsiveness, hangs-ups and high CPU and memory usage were common (and frustrating). Aside from these, Firefox is a very secure browser. Firefox has so many functions built right into it which might explain the reason why it eats too much RAM.
Until now in Firefox version 3.5.4, flash apps like Facebook’s Farm Town consumes 256.6 Mb of memory. This behavior explains why my 6GB system is easily reduced to a crawl by Firefox because when I work, I open a lot of pages simultaneously and Facebook apps are among them. I play Farm Town and Restaurant City. When these apps are open altogether, the browser would suddenly quit and an error message is displayed which I close immediately out of despair.
Download Free Opera 10 Turbo: The Fastest Web Browser Tried and Tested
We’re certainly loving Opera 10 Turbo for its compression of web pages. This makes Opera 10 a turbo-charged web browser. We can recommend for extremely “multitabbers” like us (opening 50 or more tabs can qualify you as one. On paper, Opera 10 compresses web pages by up to 80% but we have seen it perform much better in some cases when pages viewed are text-only. Some image files (.jpg, .gif, .png and .bmp) of course can only be compressed less than 80%. In our observation, it’s even better than Mozilla Firefox in terms of loading graphics. It also consumes lesser memory than Safari 4 (slow and buggy), Firefox 3.5.4 and beats even Google Chrome because it does not load too many plugins or add-ons.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 Update: List of Bug Fixes and Security Issues Addressed
Mozilla Foundation released an updated version of their flagship browser Mozilla Firefox to version 3.5.4. Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 update fixed the following issues. As we have noted in the past, Firefox is a buggy web browser and since 3.5.2, we have dropped it in the list of free softwares in our computer. It may sound harsh a bit but we were fed up with Mozilla’s inability to improve Firefox. Bugs, errors and frequent crashing were common scenarios and millions of users did not like the way it loads pages. Problems with Firefox 3.5.4 though have been identified as early as now despite the manufacturer’s attempt to address many of the identified bugs in previous versions.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 Promises Great Speed and High Level of Security
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 is ready for download free and we just did upgrade our version after having tons of problems with Firefox 3.5.2. The truth is, after our bad experiences with version 3.5.2, I have stopped using Mozilla Firefox and deleted it from my computer and turned to Flock – a more lightweight version of FF because it uses the same basic engine as the latter, and Safari 4 (which turned out to be very slow and buggy later on). In fact we even did not blog about the release of Firefox 3.5.3 after being disgusted with the frequent crashing and horrendous amount of bugs found in Firefox 3.5.2. Yes, that version had too many bugs and an immediate update was in order at that time. We thought at first that many issues in the Firefox 3.5 engine were addressed in the 3.5.3 version but still, many users ended up dissatisfied with the performance of Firefox in handling javascripts. Errors in loading web pages and sudden closing of tabs have become common among users.
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