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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.

• iOS 4.3 boosts first-gen iPad browser speed by 18 per cent

  By Galen Gruman | 10 March, 2011 23:13

  With all eyes on the iPad 2 that becomes available tomorrow at 5 p.m. in each time zone, Apple has released its iOS 4.3 update for the first-gen iPad, iPhone 3G S, non-Verizon Wireless iPhone 4, and recent iPod Touch models. InfoWorld.com ran the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser tests on a first-gen iPad with iOS 4.2 and with iOS 4.3 to see if Apple's claims of a turbocharged JavaScript engine were justified.

• HTML5 in the Web browser: HTML5 forms

  By Peter Wayner | 10 March, 2011 03:01

  The changes and enhancements to the form tags are some of the most extensive amendments to the HTML5 standard, offering a wide variety of options that once required add-on libraries and a fair amount of tweaking. All of the hard work that went into building self-checking widgets and the libraries that ensure the data is of the correct format is now being poured into the browser itself. The libraries won't be necessary -- in theory -- because the work will be done seamlessly by all browsers that follow the standard. In practice, we'll probably continue to use small libraries that smooth over slight inconsistencies.

• Google advances Native Client Web browser technology

  By Paul Krill | 19 February, 2011 12:42

  Google on Friday began offering a revamped SDK for its Native Client open source technology for running Web applications that execute native code inside a browser.

• Google Chrome Web Store opens

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 December, 2010 07:49

  Google opened its Web application store for Chrome browser users on Tuesday, offering highly interactive, graphically rich applications from a variety of sources, including National Public Radio, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts and Sports Illustrated.

• RockMelt: A social networking spin on Google Chrome

  By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | 12 November, 2010 04:48

  Would you like to do your Web browsing while keeping a constant eye on what your Facebook friends are doing? If so, then RockMelt is for you.

• Opera releases beta of Android browser

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 November, 2010 05:08

  Opera Software has released its Mobile 10.1 beta for Android, joining the battle for browser supremacy on Android-based smartphones.

• Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem

  By Gregg Keizer | 25 July, 2010 22:46

  For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday rushed out a fix for Firefox to patch a problem with a browser update issued just days before.