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 crash. This feature is called “out-of-process plugins.”
The world’s largest search engine Google has made all necessary plan to close down its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times reports after speaking with a unnamed source at the company.
In January, Google said that it was attacked from within China. From there, Google announced that it would no longer comply with China’s internet censorship laws.
An Apple iSlate vs Google Tablet battle might be about to start. Smarthouse, an Australian publication, reports that HTC is working in collaboration with Google on a Tablet.
Are Google and HTC about to challenge both the iPhone and the Apple tablet, rumored to be called iSlate? HTC are also the company behind Google’s Nexus One SmartPhone (said to be launching on January 5th).
The wait for Google Chrome for Mac users is finally over. Google has finally released the first official beta release of Google Chrome for Mac. Mac users can Grab’s the beta copy today and experience a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lighting speed. Google Chrome is available for Intel based machines running Mac OS 10.5 or newer – Leopard and Snow Leopard.
What Chrome does bring to Mac is exceptionally fast browser speeds. It also starts up quickly in under 2 seconds flat. Google also implemented some important to make Google Chrome a Unique Modern Browser i.e. Crash Protection. Google Chrome for Mac also offers the “Omnibox” instead of the standard address bar and search bar across the top of your screen. The Omnibox (as the name suggests) is one box that you can use for both searching and entering URLs.
Microsoft has released the much awaited Beta of Office 2010 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. If you are a subscriber, you can log into your account and can access the program in “Applications -> Office 2010” section. Office 2010 Beta is available as only Professional Plus SKU (32 bit and 64 bit variants) while Office Web Apps are available in x64 variant only for self hosting in corporate environments.
On November 9, 2004 the Mozilla project, lunched a new experimental web browser “Firefox 1.0”. Within the first four days of launch, more than 1 million people had downloaded a brand new browsing experience. Its aim was to reduce Mozilla’s bloat (if you remember those early days, the Mozilla Suite consisted of a web browser, mail client, news reader, IRC client; it even had a web page creator called Mozilla Composer), and it was an instant hit among users and developers alike.
Google released a feature Google Dashboard recently that lets users see and control data that the Web giant has collected about them at a conference in Europe. The service provide have an online summary of a user’s Google files, Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa photos and so on — by collecting pre-existing privacy controls in one place.
After the Firefox’s latest beta, Google has also just released a new beta build of their Chrome web browser. Although still in development, this technology allows Chrome users to sync their browser bookmarks across multiple computers without having to manually recreate them on each machine used.
