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Camino 2.0 Adds Features To A Speedy Mac-Centric Browser
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centred, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support and much more are now baked in. More »
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Opera Mobile 10 Beta Available With Tabbed Browsing, Speed Dial
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows Mobile/Symbian: Opera has released version 10 beta of their popular mobile browser. If you put a lot of miles on your mobile browser, Opera Mobile 10 has quite a few new features and tweaks worth the update. More »
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 Available With 90+ Bugs Squashed
3:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: The folks at Mozilla continue their steady march towards the release of Firefox 3.6, today releasing an update to Firefox 3.6 Beta 3. The update addresses 90+ bugs from the beta 2 release. More »
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FavBackup Updates, Backs Up Multiple Firefox Profiles
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Portable browser backup utility FavBackup updates with loads of changes, including single-file backups, multiple profile support and a new Ribbon interface. More »
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Chrome Beta For Mac Arriving In Early December
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Google plans to release a beta version of its Chrome browser in early December. How does the net know this? A mailing list discussion shows off the latest implementation of extensions in Chrome, already working on the latest Windows and Mac builds of Chromium, but not in the rough Mac test builds. More »
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 Available For Download
12:00PM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: Less than two weeks after they released the first beta, Mozilla is back with Firefox 3.6 beta 2. This release includes over 190 bug fixes from beta 1 in addition to the already existing performance boosts and support for one-click themes. More »
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Happy Birthday: A Look Back At Five Years Of Firefox
4:00AM Kevin Purdy
Five years ago, an open-source browser, one that didn’t come with your computer, was available as a 1.0 download. To say it’s changed the world’s web experience is an understatement. Let’s take a look back at five years of the ‘fox. More »
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Libox Shares Your Music, Movies And More On A Private Network
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac: Libox makes it easy to share music, movies and photos with your friends in a private P2P network. More »
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Firefox 3.5.5 Update Fixes Critical Security Bug
8:30AM Adam Pash | There’s nothing terribly exciting to speak of in today’s Firefox 3.5.5 update; from the looks of the tiny changelog, it looks like one critical security fix and a few other minor bug fixes will make their way to your browser. More »
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4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being “faster”. We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. More »
Browser Speed Tests: The Windows 7 Results
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being “faster”. We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. More » 