Web Browsers
Google Translate, Now With Voice Input
GOOGLE Google enables the support for HTML Speech input API in the Chrome 11 browser. Now developers can provide the ability to transcribe user voice into text using HTML Speech input library. When a web page uses this feature, users will see a microphone icon next to the text field. Users simply have to click on microphone icon and then speak …
Firefox 4 Has Arrived
TECH NEWS The long awaited Firefox 4 is now available for everyone after months of development. Firefox 4 comes with major changes such as Redesigned User Interface, Hardware acceleration, synchronization, and new JavaScript engine. Firefox 4 is easiest and fastest Firefox yet. With powerful speed and performance enhancement Firefox 4 is 6x (six time) faster than previous version. This Firefox 4 especially …
Enable the Default Web Apps in Chrome 8
GOOGLE Google has recently launched the newer version of Chrome, but the question is: where is the Web Store? Google announced that we have started to notify developers about the newest changes and soon it will be available for all users. Themes and Extensions for Google Chrome will be the part of this web store. You can enable the apps section …
Happy Birthday, Firefox
TECH NEWS Today Firefox celebrates its 6th Birthday. It was launched on 9th November 2004 as an open source and lightweight web browser. It is the best and more secure alternative of IE6, which was the superior browser at the time. Since its launch, Firefox is the second most popular browser with a 31.5% market share and available in more than 70 …
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6 with Better Crash Control
WEB BROWSERS Mozilla release an update for FireFox 3.6.6 within a week after the release of Firefox 3.6.4 version. Mozilla listened from some users who are using old computers, that after installing Firefox 3.6.4 they sometimes receive non-responsiveness from plugins before they are terminated, especially when they playing flash games. According to Mozilla Blog they have fixed the crash protection feature in …
Google Chrome URL bar no longer shows http://
GOOGLE The most recent developer version of Google’s Chrome browser has introduced a quiet, but appreciable change. When you see some text prefixed by “http://” you automatically know that what follows is a web address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Google has removed http:// prefix from the recent developer version of Chorme, and simply displaying a URL as “glanceworld.com”. …
Firefox Lorentz Beta Released
TECH NEWS Firefox fans, it’s here: The first beta of Firefox Lorentz beta has been released. Lorentz is Firefox version 3.6.3 with a much delight in update. Firefox beta allows you to separate plugins, such as Adobe Flash, so that they don’t crash the entire browser when they encounter issues and the plugin is replaced with a dark image notifying the plugin …
