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• Mozilla readies app marketplace for public beta

  By Paul Krill | 16 May, 2012 20:12

  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.

• Eclipse readies browser-based IDE

  By Paul Krill | 26 March, 2012 21:12

  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.

• Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful

  By Galen Gruman | 28 February, 2012 22:11

  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.

• Mountain Lion: Hands on with Safari

  By Serenity Caldwell | 19 February, 2012 10:52

  Though Safari didn't receive as huge an overhaul in Mountain Lion as other OS X apps have, it still got some love from the folks in Cupertino. Refined search interfaces, sharing integration, and clear-cut password storage are just three of the things you have to look forward to come this summer - here are a few brief impressions of Safari's new features.

• Google Chrome remixes worth trying out

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 25 January, 2012 22:15

  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.

• Google boosts garbage collection for Chrome browser

  By Paul Krill | 23 November, 2011 02:09

  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.

• 13 features that make each Web browser unique

  By Peter Wayner | 02 May, 2011 20:08

  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.

• Chrome tips users to dangerous Windows downloads

  By Gregg Keizer | 14 April, 2011 11:17

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

• Internet Explorer 9: A visual tour

  By Nick Mediati | 17 September, 2010 11:28

  IE 9's main browser window takes minimalism to a new level.

• Which Web browser is best?

  By Nick Mediati | 12 August, 2010 15:58

  Of all the software on your PC, the Web browser may be the most important tool you use each day--but you may not give it much thought.

• First look: Firefox 4 Beta 1 shines on HTML5

  By Peter Wayner | 09 July, 2010 05:22

  While it's impossible to sum up the thousands of enhancements and bug fixes both big and small, the Firefox 4 beta version brings the browser that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop. There are fewer reasons for anyone to interact with an extra plug-in or the operating system. Remember when people cared about whether a machine was Windows or Mac or a Commodore 64? Remember when software needed to be written in native code? Those days are fading away quickly as the browser is more able than ever before to deliver most of the content we might want.

• Your Browser in Five Years

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 18 June, 2010 00:18

  What will your Web browser look like in 2015? Five years doesn't always bring dramatic change to some technologies--today's desktop PC, for instance, isn't that different from its 2005 predecessor--but browsers are undergoing major changes that will alter our day-to-day computing lives.

• 5 reasons to upgrade to Apple's Safari 5

  By Ryan Faas | 15 June, 2010 03:38

  Although it wasn't mentioned during Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address Monday at WWDC, Apple launched an updated version of its Safari Web browser for Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.2 or higher, as well as Windows XP SP2 or higher, Vista, and Windows 7.

• Safari 5 in depth: Has it sped past Chrome?

  By Preston Gralla | 15 June, 2010 03:49

  The just-released Safari 5 ups the ante in the browser wars, with two major improvements: a performance boost to rival speed king Chrome, the highly useful Safari Reader, which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles.

• Google Chrome 5 Beta: The top five features

  By Ian Paul | 06 May, 2010 02:39

  Google recently launched the beta version of Google Chrome 5, the next iteration of the search giant's Web browser. New features include HTML 5 specifications like Geolocation and file drag-and-drop; expanded cloud sync capabilities; Flash integration; and JavaScript engine speed boosts.

• 5 reasons why Google Chrome will crush IE In browser war

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 05 May, 2010 06:43

  Google's Chrome browser is shining brightly, and it's not hard to see why. First, the stats: According to the latest NetApplications figures, Chrome now has 6.7 percent of the browser market--a stunning rise from zero prior to 2009. Competing browsers are either treading water or, as in the case of Microsoft Internet Explorer, in precipitous freefall.