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[23 May 2011 | No Comment | 1,402 views]

If there’s one lesson browser developers should take from Google Chrome, it’s that good ideas grow better and faster when exposed to constant scrutiny. Thereupon, Mozilla’s new beta (and cutting edge aurora) development channels are open for business.
With Firefox Aurora …

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[20 Mar 2011 | 3 Comments | 2,320 views]

Bless all browsers, large and small. Bless them one and all. Everyone’s favorite Norwegian software simians have not been overwhelmed by the “excitement and media coverage” of the Barracuda launch. But, there is news here beyond their disavowal of hype.
Opera …

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[16 Mar 2011 | No Comment | 1,220 views]

Mozilla is well known for delaying and delaying some more Firefox release dates. In the case of their seminal version 4.0 browser rewrite, however, September morphed into November and then “early 2011.” Now, at the end of the first quarter, …

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[10 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 1,599 views]

Since Google redefined the word, betas have been getting longer and longer. A case in point is ClamXav 2, which has been iterating in prerelease form since August 28, 2009 — fast, stable, free and still a fraction of a …

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[1 Dec 2010 | 2 Comments | 2,125 views]

Flash on the iPhone? Dead on arrival. Flash on notebooks? Sucks the life right out. Adobe has taken a lot of grief for the many failings of its multimedia middleware. Whereas it took years for them to deliver v10.1, they’re …

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[11 Nov 2010 | One Comment | 1,153 views]

Given that Mozilla has already announced that final Firefox 4 code won’t ship until early next year, this is as much as we’ll get until then. Nevertheless, this seventh and final beta is feature complete and offers fairly impressive advances, …

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[1 Nov 2010 | No Comment | 1,851 views]

As we bid October adieu, the mothership has graced us with yet another Snow Leopard update beta release, the second in just four days. Given iOS 4.2 dependencies and the off-chance that Apple still might roll a general Mac hardware …

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[28 Oct 2010 | One Comment | 3,527 views]

Mozilla has a long history of pushing back product release dates and, on the whole, that should be considered a good thing. Thereupon, the company has announced that Firefox 4 will not be shipping by end of November as originally …

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[15 Sep 2010 | No Comment | 837 views]

A great deal has gotten even better. MacUpdate 10 Top Mac Apps Bundle is still on, though the initial offer of Publicspace’s Vitamin R and Littlefin’s Compartments for the first 10,000 downloaders has been extended to the first 20,000. As …

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[13 Sep 2010 | 3 Comments | 1,939 views]

On September 13, 2000, Apple released a public preview of Mac OS X, giving the world its first look at the then revolutionary Aqua user interface. Based on the NeXT OS, which the company purchased in 1996 prefacing the return …