Michael Arrington has asked for help building a web tablet the idea is to have an open source tablet that runs Linux with Firefox or Skype on top of it as it’s main apps.
The tablet would be “as thin as possible, run low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and [...]
Michael Arrington Starts Open Source “Firefox Tablet” Project
Browser, Random Tech, Tablet No Comments »Aza Raskin Shows Off Mobile Firefox Concept
Application, Browser, Mobile No Comments »This is a pretty amazing demo of what could be Firefox mobile. The interface for the application will be touch screen but not multitouch.
There are definitely a lot of really great and interesting ideas for mobile browsers that I wouldn’t mind seeing in Mobile Safari as well.
Aza Raskin’s Blog
Opera Mini 4.1 Beta Released
Beta, Browser, Cell Phones, Video No Comments »Opera claims that the new version is 50% faster than Opera Mini 4.0. URL auto complete has been added along with the ability to save web pages on to your phone for offline viewing (something I’d really love to see in MobileSafari for the iPhone). You can also now upload and download files to web [...]
Apple Pushing Safari To Windows Users Through Apple Software Update
Apple, Browser, Windows No Comments »Apple did something a day or so ago that made a lot of people angry and I don’t really know why. An update was pushed to Windows users, primarily for iTunes but when the user clicked “Yes” to the update Apple’s Software updater opened and by default had the iTunes + Quicktime update and Safari [...]
Zumobi Launches Browser Beta
Application, Browser, Cell Phones, Mobile No Comments »Zumobi is a browser that lets you easily access and share web based content on your mobile phone. The project is backed by Microsoft and looks pretty cool.
The beta is now available for free and works with any phone running Windows Mobile 5 or 6 with Blackberry and J2ME compatibility coming early in the second [...]
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.0 Beta 1
Beta, Browser, Downloads No Comments »Last night Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 3.0. The beta is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux at Mozilla’s download site in 20 different languages.
Remember that this is still beta software so don’t expect it to work flawlessly. Many websites and extensions don’t work very well with the browser.
The browser has [...]
Firefox Reaches 400 Million Downloads
Browser No Comments »So Firefox has reached 400 million downloads, but what does that mean? Nothing really, especially since I myself have probably downloaded Firefox 50-100 times. I talked about downgrading to Firefox 1.5 and when I did that I probably downloaded Firefox 4 or 5 times.
But, I don’t want to be too harsh on Firefox, even though [...]
Downgrading to Firefox 1.5
Application, Browser No Comments »As many of you Mac users know Firefox 2 is one of the buggiest applications for OS X. I personally was having 5-10 crashes per day and that doesn’t mean that it would beach ball for a few seconds and then it would work again, no, Firefox would just completely crash!
So after dealing with a [...]