Browsers

VIDEO: Opera Mobile 10 beta available for Symbian S60 phones

Opera has released the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian S60 handsets.

With a revamped look and feel, the browser works with touchscreen phones and boasts a host of improvements with the video above giving a brief overview.

Opera...

RIM advertises for "WebKit Developer"

RIM is advertising for a Canadian-based WebKit developer, following its acquisition of Torch Mobile (a company that developed the WebKit-based Iris Browser). Both bits of evidence irrefutably point to the fact that RIM knows the BlackBerry browser is a bit rubbish and...

Firefox 3.6 reaches beta

Mozilla has issued a new beta version of its Firefox browser - version 3.6 is now available to download in RC1 edition. Originally it was due for a mid-September release, but it slipped a little for reasons unknown.

The update includes version 1.9.2 of the Gecko...

VIDEO: Opera 10.10 beta unleashed

Opera has announced that Beta 10.10 of its desktop browser is now available. The beta includes Opera Unite, which adds a server to your web browser, meaning that you can interact with and serve content to other computers on the Web.

The beta includes a few apps...

Chrome for Macs in a "couple of months"

A version of Google's Chrome browser for Macs is due to arrive sooner than expected, the search giant's CEO has revealed at a New York press conference.

While Chrome for Macs was not due to be available for consumer consumption until the first half of 2010, it...

Google: Most don't know what web browser is

Google has found that the majority of internet users don't actually know what a browser is.

Hard as it may seem to a tech whiz like yourself, a quick un-scientific survey found that most people have no real idea what a browser does or which one they use.

Clearly...

Google planning Chrome Frame for Firefox?

Google could easily crank out a Chrome Frame for Firefox, in the same way that it has for Internet Explorer, according to Mozilla's VP Engineering, Mike Shaver. "The code is certainly there", he told Computerworld.

"But source code doesn't speak to intent",...

Microsoft warns of Chrome Frame security flaws

Microsoft has warned of security issues when using Google's recently-announced Chrome Frame plugin for Internet Explorer 6. As previously reported, the plugin allows users to get access to HTML5 coding within the older browser.

Microsoft says: "With Internet...

Google Chrome Frame aims to bring IE6 kicking and screaming into today's web

Google is trying to help those stuck with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser embrace the latest the Internet has to offer, with the launch of a new meta tag and additional plug-in.

Called Google Chrome Frame, the new system will let website developers tell...

Google releases Chrome 3 browser

It's been a little over a year since Chrome unexpectedly burst screaming into the world and helped to reignite the browser wars, and Google hasn't been lying down when it comes to its development. The third edition of the browser has just graduated from the "beta" to the...

Chrome usage doubles in a year

Pocket-lint has recorded higher than average Chrome usage on the site, revealing that Google's browser is particularly popular with Pocket-lint readers.

While Google Chrome enjoys a less-then-3% global share of the browser market, here on Pocket-lint Chrome...

Opera bags 10 million downloads in a week

Opera has broken its in-house record by managing to rack up 10 million downloads of the newest version of its browser - Opera 10 - in the first week of its release. Apparently a considerably chunk of those were people who've never used Opera before.

Opera told...

Opera 10 gets full release

Opera, the cross-platform web browser which has never achieved massive marketshare but arguably sets the pace of browser innovation, has issued version 10 of its software.

Opera 10 has been in beta for some time, so none of its features are brand new, but its...

Google and Sony strike Chrome deal

Google has come to a deal with Sony that'll see its Chrome browser promoted via Vaio laptops. It's undoubtedly an attempt to pump up the popularity of the browser, which has been well reviewed but is used by relatively few people.

Microsoft and Google both fight...

Ditch IE6 for IE8 else people go hungry

The "Say No to IE6" campaign has gained more ground this week with a move from Microsoft no less.

In an attempt to convince users of the eight year old browser to upgrade, it has said that it will double the donation it is currently making to US charity Feeding...

Porn stopped Firefox 3 upgrades

There's a whole load of people who're still using Firefox 2, despite the vastly superior version 3 having been released more than a year ago. Mozilla's security team wanted to know why, so they did a survey of people who consistently declined updates. The reason?

VIDEO: Multi-touch interface for Firefox

An intern at the Mozilla Foundation by the name of Felipe Gomez has, in a spare lunch break we assume, built a multi-touch interface for Firefox and produced a video showing the cool stuff that you could do with such a technology.

He demonstrates moving objects...

RIM acquires Torch Mobile Webkit-based browser experts

Canadian smartphone maker RIM has acquired Torch Mobile, news that will almost certainly see the BlackBerry range of smartphones getting a much improved internet browser.

In a statement on its site Torch Mobile says it "is excited to announce that our company...

64-bit Chrome arrives - but only on Linux

Google Chrome engineers have revealed that they're working on a 64-bit version of the company's browser. However, it'll intiially just be headed to Linux, not OSX or Windows.

Dean McNamee made the announcement on the Chromium-dev mailing list, and shared instructions...

Google launches Chrome bookmark syncing

Google's Chrome browser is adding features at a rate of knots. The team behind the software has announced that the latest version of Chrome will feature bookmark syncing between browsers.

What that means is that if you save a bookmark on your browser, but then...

Microsoft disputes Firefox's billion downloads claim

Microsoft has poured scorn on Mozilla's download figures for its Firefox browser. Amy Barzdukas, a Microsoft general manager in chage of IE, said that the announcement that the software had reached a billion downloads was "interesting math".

Firefox claimed...

Opera 10 beta 3 arrives

Opera has announced that the third beta version of the tenth edition of its browser is now available from its website. The company says that its prioritised "performance and stability" in this version.

Included are improvements to Opera Turbo - the engine which...

Apple Safari 4.0.3 update released

Apple has updated its Safari web browser bringing with it a number of security and bug fixes.

Version 4.0.3 (for those keeping count) promises to also include "Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag".

HTML 5 is a new...

Microsoft responds over Anti-IE6 movement

Dean Hachamovitch, the chap who heads up the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft, has responded to the rising furor over the use of IE6 on the web. Many feel that the browser should be culled and users forced to upgrade.

Hachamovitch points out that "the choice...

IE6 hatred momentum gathers pace

The momentum of hatred for Microsoft's IE6 browser is starting to gather pace it seems as group of developers unhappy with companies and individuals still using the eight-year-old browser have created a movement against it.

Called "IE6 No More" the campaign...